Tag Archives: coffee shop

03/04

Code Black Coffee, Melbourne

We’re bringing you another coffee shop, this time Melbourne-based coffee roasting company, Code Black. Interior Architects, Zwei, converted two inner-city warehouses, combining an office and coffee shop, where the roasting process is on full display.

The original warehouse windows were kept, while the rest of the space is lit by warm yellow bulbs.

Dark and moody, the space features steel framing, polished concrete, and stained OSB board throughout, creating a raw, industrial aesthetic that playfully reflects the colours and textures of rich, dark coffee.

(Images from Inhabit)

 

 

02/04

Truth Coffee, Cape Town

A huge vintage coffee roaster is the centrepiece and inspiration for Cape Town’s Truth Coffee. “We immediately came up with steampunk as an appropriate conceptual reference, as both coffee roasters and espresso machines display elements of romantic, steam-powered technology,” explains designer Haldane Martin.

The coffee shop is housed in a three-story turn of the century warehouse on Buitenkant Street. The building was pared down to accentuate the original features and patina of exposed stone and brick walls, cast iron pillars, and pine roof trusses and floors.

Raw steel, timber, leather, brass and copper finishes were central to the interior design and complimented the building’s worn aesthetic.

Martin designed all of the furniture for the café, which includes high-backed leather banquettes, ornate steel tables and smaller cog-shaped tables.

What we liked most about this space is how the concept is reflected throughout the space, even to the finest detail.

(Images from Dezeen)

12/08

Slowpoke Espresso, Melbourne

Slowpoke is a new cafe in Fitzroy, Melbourne designed by French-born, Melbourne-based designer Sasufi. The focal point of the bright and airy interior is a 12m wall clad with off-cuts of reused timber sourced from local furniture designers. Tables are also constructed of recycled wood, this time flooring and they are complemented with classic white chairs.

The space is completed with quirky touches such as vintage art and understated flower and herb arrangements in antique glassware. The character of the cafe is carried through to the last detail with even business cards being made of hand cut recycled card and signage custom made using flea market finds.

(Images via weheart and sasufi)

14/11

Vanilla, Berlin by Pandarosa

Vanilla is a sweet coffee shop in East Berlin – made even sweeter with a little typography inspired interior by design duo Pandarosa. The pink and blue colour scheme harks back to childhood days spent drooling over the ice-cream counter, while the seamless treatment of signage, logo and wallpaper is a very grown-up attitude to holistic design. The looping ‘l’s of ‘Vanilla’ repeat to make a pattern for the wall behind the counter. Vintage touches in fixtures and fittings add to the retro vibe.

The design is by Ariel Aguilera and Andrea Benyi, whose work has been commissioned by big brands Volkswagen, Lee Jeans and Adidas and can also be seen in Copenhagen’s  Hotel Fox.

Images via WeHeart

19/10

Urban Station

Mobile workers have long been suffering the distractions of working at home and the annoyances of coffee shops. But now thanks to Urban Station gone are the days of working on a tiny, badly lit coffee shop table and having strangers spill their drinks on you – if you live in Buenos Aires that is. Urban Station, a place designed specifically for those who call the local cafe their office has opened shop in the hip Palermo Soho district of Buenos Aires, a rich mix of fashion, design and art.

It provides large tables, complete with plugs,  wi-fi, printers and scanners, everything that you would have in your own office, including meeting rooms for seeing clients, plus they provide lockers so that you won’t have to haul everything home at the end of the day.

What sets it apart from other hot desk concepts it that your hourly rent includes unlimited refreshments, you can have coffee and croissants to your heart’s content whilst working undisturbed in a bright, airy environment.

The design includes casual lounges with comfortable armchairs where you can have informal meetings or browse through the books and magazines that they have on offer. The designers seem to have thought of everything, down to how you can get home – if you need to get somewhere fast you can even rent a bicycle. The way that we are working in cities have changed, hopefully more cities will catch on and get mobile worker friendly spaces of their own.

Images from WeHeart

02/07

BIJOU coffee shop by im.architektur

Milos Mirosavic and Ivana Popovic (otherwise known as im.architecktur) are a pair of Serbian architects that take their coffee seriously. These images are of their BIJOU coffee shop concept, ‘a small and elegant spot for a daily dose of pleasure.’ Designed around notions of jewels and luxury, the bar space is wrapped with metal rods that are covered with tiles intended to ‘flicker like diamonds’ and reflect light over the floor, ceiling and walls.

The concept has won them much accolade and a prize in the ‘Business Premises’ category of the Tile Awards – a Europe-wide design competition aimed at illustrating new, creative and unusual uses of tiles to create ‘unconventional and sensational’ interiors. The competition, addressed to architects and interior designers under the age of 35, was initiated by German architecture magazine AIT to celebrate newcomers in the industry.

Concept image.

The tiles will reflect light on the shop surfaces.