Corey Ashford is no stranger to food-shaped homewares. First came his brass oyster holders. Then a range of canelés. Now it’s time to add madeleines to the (elegant, inedible) menu, with new lidded vessels inspired by the tiny shell-like cakes currently enjoying a sweet renaissance in Australian restaurants and bakeries.
“The Madeleine Box immortalises one of my favourite French treats and continues to build upon my love of food, still life and art de la table,” says Ashford, the former head of retail and visual merchandising at Dinosaur Designs, who established his namesake studio in 2016.
“Similar in form to the cake, our Madeleine Box has a shell-shaped lid that sits delicately atop a smooth elliptic base – it’s beautiful in both form and function.”
The pastry-like box is the label’s first lidded vessel and is designed to hold rings, pendants and other small treasures on your bedside table or bathroom vanity.
Available in high-polished brass or a range of hand-sculpted marbles – Bianco, Giardino, Travertine, Verde – the boxes continue Ashford’s practice of balancing beauty, function and drool-worthy faux food.
