Everyone always asks, Why dont you just make more?
Well, we physically cant, says Maher, with a laugh.
Lannans corner facade, with lettering by Fed and Watered and its croissant logo design by Hannah Robinson.
The hatch at Lannan bakery, where you can peek into the kitchen and watch Maher’s team at work. On the left is an oil on linen piece by Maher’s mother, Caroline Milne, who painted a plant grown by Maher’s father.
I want it to be a beautiful, inspiring setting for the bakers.
A painting by Darcies mother, Caroline Milne.
Darcie Maher outside her bakery, Lannan, in Edinburghs Stockbridge neighborhood.
Lannan’s corner facade, with lettering by Fed and Watered and its croissant logo design by Hannah Robinson.
The buildout is actually the second of three phaseswith the final stage set to be the sweetest treat.
At the far end of the building site, there is a storeroom holding excess equipment.
But a larger Lannan it wont be.
A painting by Darcie’s mother, Caroline Milne. One of her earliest pieces, it shows a tiny village called Moniaive in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, where Milne was born and grew up.
Its going to be a completely new concept.
Were going for a rich green theme and completely different interiors.
Lannans glass-fronted wooden bakery counter.
A snapshot of the counter at Lannan, which stocks artisan and local products, including bespoke ceramics by Claire Henry.
Maher designed the bakery with support from Nicholas Taggart, Ossian architects, and Francey Joiners.
With her keen eye for design, would Maher ever want to work in the interiors world full-time?
If I didnt bake, that’s what Id want to do, she says.
Darcie Maher outside her bakery, Lannan, in Edinburgh’s Stockbridge neighborhood.
The color scheme is something Ive always had in my head.
Sticking to her guns, she proceeded with the golden-hued walls that have become emblematic of the space.
Maher says she has always known exactly how she wanted Lannan to feel.
Lannan’s glass-fronted wooden bakery counter. Maher designed the bakery with support from Nicholas Taggart, Ossian architects, and Francey Joiners.
All the artworks are my mum’s and the big blue pot on the main shelf was my grannys.
Lannans bespoke custom Slayer coffee machine and curtains by Rozie Buchan in Redwood Handwoven Cotton from Merchant and Mills.
It also helps that she has been dreaming of owning a bakery since she was a child.
Lannan’s bespoke custom Slayer coffee machine and curtains by Rozie Buchan in “Redwood Handwoven Cotton” from Merchant and Mills.