We are Nienke and Amanda, the design duo behind French Toast Studio. Our love story began almost 10 years ago at art school where we bonded over the love for eating french toast, pretty color palettes and everything patterned.
In these 10 years we have formed a friendship, we have been roommates in London, we traveled South East Asia together and we have created our French Toast universe; a place where inspiration flows, colors meet and patterns clash.
We like to describe our collaboration as a pingpong game. Every idea starts with going back and forth between us. The same goes for our designs, one of us starts a design, the other one will work on the composition or add colors. Our inspiration doesn’t come from trends, but from shared moments, observations and finding beauty in the colors and patterns around us in our daily lives. It’s important for us to create designs with care and attention from drawing table till finished product.
It all started
with french toast.
We are two introverts that spend a lot of time in our heads and need a bit more time than average at home to dream and recharge. Therefore, it’s very important to us that our homes are an extension of our minds. While spending time in our safe places, all our ideas and new creations come to life. Designing makes us the happiest and by focusing mainly on pattern design, our mission is to decorate life around us with our art. With our designs we want to share a piece of our universe and add color, happiness and warmth to your happy space. Making home a place you love to spend time at by surrounding yourself with pretty, consciously made products.
Next to designing our own prints and products, we are always looking for exciting collaborations. This can be an illustration project, designing patterns and prints for clothing, homeware products or packaging, or anything else that could be a good match.
We worked together with e.g. Mary Mccartney, Taschen publisher, All-true, &C Media, Hudson’s Bay Netherlands, Bam Boa, The Self-Made Summit.