To savor a fresh baguette from a bakery in Paris is truly a feast for the senses, and typically an emphasize for foodies on vacation abroad. Couple of offerings stateside compare, though, with grab-and-go pastry shops that all too often mimic the look of a standard French café, with little variation.
< img src="https://design-milk.com/images/2026/05/INK-ORO-The-Bread-Club-12.jpg"alt ="Marble counter top with rounded edge on a tiled base including vertical rectangular tiles and brass trim, set on a textured flooring."width=" 1280 "height ="854"/ > The Bread Club mixes the essence of Paris and its online to reimagine what a bakeshop can be, no matter the location.”
There’s a subtle nod to Texas wheat woven into the style’s perceptiveness, but it’s never actual,”Woodson notes.”It gives the
area a classic, unpretentious quality that feels inviting to everybody.” < img src="https://design-milk.com/images/2026/05/INK-ORO-The-Bread-Club-17.jpg" alt="A bakeshop coffee shop with large windows, outdoor seating, and a bike with baskets of baguettes parked by the entryway." width="1280" height="1709"/ > < img src="https://design-milk.com/images/2026/05/INK-ORO-The-Bread-Club-18.jpg" alt="Outside of a pastry shop with striped awnings, a sign reading "The Bread Club," and a window displaying the word "Pastries." width="1280" height="854"/ > < img src="https://design-milk.com/images/2026/05/INK-ORO-The-Bread-Club-20.jpg" alt="A bakeshop called "The Bread Club" with striped awnings, outdoor seating, a bicycle with baskets, and big display screen windows under a cloudy sky." width="1280" height="994"/ > To see this and other works by the design firm, go to inkandoro.com. Photography by Aaron Dougherty. < img src="https://design-milk.com/images/2024/07/Anna-Zappia-Headshot-1-100x100.jpg" width="100" height="100" alt =""/ > Anna Zappia is a New York City-based author and editor with a passion for textiles, and she can frequently be discovered at a fashion exhibit or shopping for more books. Anna composes the Friday 5 column, in addition to commercial material.