Cafe/Restaurant interior Design | Karavaan | Amsterdam West | The Netherlands | STUDIO MODIJEFSKY

A new exciting venue has opened its doors in Amsterdam West: Karavaan. This place can be anything you want it to be – all day hangout, bar, your morning coffee place, the spot for Friday night drinks, a neighbourhood cafe for locals, city oasis, cocktail bar, breakfast club, but also your favourite venue for a good meal. Karavaan is all these things in one.

Kwakersplein - the square where the venue is located - has been transformed throughout history. Initially a polder area outside Amsterdam’s old city limits, it became a part of the Bellamy neighbourhood after being dammed in the 19th century. Ever since, people have been migrating towards this spot, just like a Karavaan (Dutch for caravan), but this time to settle for good.

Studio Modijefsky has translated the journey of a caravan into a bar and restaurant concept in the brightest corner of Kwakersplein. The interior is subtly divided into different landscapes: meadow, swamp, forest, mountain and desert, with each zone characterised by its own colour scheme, materials and design specifics, all unified by a trail that crosses the entire space......more

Tea Shop Interior Design | STEEP Creamery & Tea | SoMa | San Francisco | California | shelterwerk

As boba tea addicts, we were delighted to work with STEEP on their second location in SoMa, which also offers made-to-order ice cream rolls. The cafe has a modest footprint, but makes up for it with a double-story height and floor-to-ceiling glass storefront. New mechanical and electrical systems were strategically placed along the perimeter to maintain an unobstructed and airy atmosphere. A printed forest adorns suspended light fixture shades, complementing STEEP’s tea leaf logo......more

Cafe Interior Design | Local Coffee | Austin | Texas | Clayton & Little

A San Antonio original, Local Coffee is already legend for expertly delivering on its promise: making the best coffee and providing the highest level of hospitality anywhere you buy a cup. As Local expands the brand into new markets with new stores, Clayton & Little works with their team to ensure each store remains tied to its place. By weaving in site-specific materials, details and accents into the brand’s core design language, the stores remain responsive to the distinct customer base of each location and their respective preferences—truly Local.......more

Sandwich Shop Interior Design \ La Matta | austin | Clayton & Little

La Matta is a simple Italian sandwich shop on Austin’s East Side serving high-quality ingredients and a variety of Italian wines and beers. “My goal with La Matta is to bring authentic Italian sandwiches to Austin,” Chef Halilaj says. “Authentic meaning there is no interpretation—this is what you would eat in Italy, presented in exactly the same way.” Locally made terra cotta tile references the beauty of simple, raw, pragmatic materials commonly used in both Texan and Italian buildings. Lights and colors are wild and bright, like the “the wild card” in traditional Italian card games, a literal translation of “La Matta.”.....more

Restaurant Interior Design | Moody's Delicatessen & Provisions | Waltham | Marcus Gleysteen Architects

Moody's Delicatessen & Provisions was designed as a rustic and intimate retail and eating space. The main design feature, a standing-seam copper soffit, runs the length of the deli and serves as a reflective backdrop to hanging charcuterie and other delicacies.

Following the success of the Deli, a restaurant was added next door. The Backroom was designed so customers must enter through the deli and slip past the existing counter in order to discover the restaurant and wine bar beyond.

The bar is clad with raw-steel panels and topped by a concrete slab intended to patina with use. A custom handcrafted steel wine-rack floats above, and the rack’s milk-glass and perforated steel shelves filter light down through the bottles. Existing brick walls were left exposed, and the dining room is anchored along the far side by a reclaimed-limestone wall. The natural character of these raw materials sets a backdrop to the tables, open kitchen, and large wood-fired copper oven.......more

Cafe Interior Design | The Serpentine Coffee House | Hyde park | London | Mizzi Studio

The Serpentine Coffee House is a new architectural landmark in London’s Hyde Park. Located between the Serpentine Galleries, with views across the Serpentine Lake and out towards the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, the new sculptural café is designed to form an integral part of a journey through The Royal Parks, welcoming visitors as they approach Hyde Park from Kensington Gardens. Providing an immersive architectural resting, refreshment and contemplation point, the café reflects and responds to the park’s Grade I listed landscape.

The Serpentine Coffee House is an open, semi-transparent glass pavilion, with mullions evoking the pagoda architecture traditionally seen in Japanese teahouses. This creates a lightness that helps the building to integrate seamlessly into the landscape, resulting in a complete, harmonious design that takes full advantage of its setting.

The building is defined by its undulating canopy, which appears to float independently above the glass structure below, echoing a stingray’s flight through water. As it curves at the front, it forms a welcoming ‘smile’ to greet visitors. The canopy has been hand-painted using specialist techniques to give an aged-brass finish and is intricately textured on the underside with snakeskin-inspired, coffer-like dimples. This glistening reptilian underbelly is revealed as you enter, creating an awe-inspiring spatial experience. The canopy cantilevers to create extensive open-air seating, with capacity for 60 people to sit under and around it, within the parkland.

The colour palette of the café interior is carefully curated for mindful consumption and to reflect the surrounding environment, blurring the boundaries between indoor and outdoor space. Deep blue tiles behind the bespoke walnut-clad counter, an earthy terrazzo floor, green leather upholstered chairs and Perlino Rosato marble surfaces reflect hues relating to the Serpentine Lake and surrounding trees and flower beds.

The Serpentine Coffee House forms part of a wider commission for Mizzi Studio to transform ten prestigious sites across London’s Royal Parks, with individually crafted, free-standing architectural structures, in partnership with artisan Italian café operators, Colicci. In addition to the new Serpentine Coffee House, the practice has designed a family of nine curvaceous sculptural kiosks clad in steam-bent oak and tubular brass. Each of the structures serves to strengthen The Royal Parks’ brand personality and visual identity by communicating their key values of being beautiful, timeless, welcoming and remarkable......more

Cafe Interior Design | Fora | Spitafields | London \ Mizzi Studio

Mizzi Studio worked closely with Orms to create a statement entrance piece for a new Fora workspace on Folgate Street in Spitalfields. Entrusted with bringing Orms' idea for an S-shaped reception desk and café/bar to life, we were responsible for the 3D design development, visualisation and construction of the sculptural feature.

Our design development, detailing, expertise in material qualities and new manufacturing methods, skill in complex 3D modelling and awareness of architectural processes, honed across the studio’s multidisciplinary team of architects, industrial designers and interior designers, enabled us to develop Orms' vision to create a bold yet highly functional piece.

In particular, a new technique of introducing real metal powder to the GRP process, that Mizzi Studio has been researching and developing in recent and current projects at Westfield London and in The Royal Parks, has allowed us to achieve the large dynamic, curving copper form for Fora. The high proportion of real metal gives the surface a lustre as if it was cast directly from pure copper, allowing us to create a complex form in a luxury finish with increased durability.

Mizzi Studio previously collaborated with Orms to produce a floor-to-ceiling sculpture of a ship's hull for an international shipping management company's headquarters in London and has also worked with the likes of Tom Dixon to produce other statement entrance pieces.....more

Cafe Interior Design | Botero Coffee | Jackson Teece

Botero’s new fitout on Adelaide Street is to be the Coffee Roaster’s Queensland headquarters. Housing both a cafe and training facility the fitout needed to express the dedication to quality associated with brand. Jackson Teece worked closely with the client to develop a concept that both honoured the original bones of the building and showcased the clients brand.

In peeling back the layers of newer finishes Jackson Teece found a rich textured palette. Original brickwork, exposed hardwood timber beams and polished concrete form the backdrop to the cafe located on the ground and mezzanine levels. Teamed with brass and oak furniture elements allows Botero’s organic branding to take centre stage.....more

Bakery & Cafe Interior Design | Craftsman and Wolves Bakery + Cafe | San Francisco | Zack | de Vito Architecture + Construction

The subtle and sexy design of this bakery and cafe showcases the high artistry of owner, pastry chef, Willaim Werner, and his team. Adaptive re-use of a timber and brick building in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District sets the mood for this sophisticated cafe where the pastry is “It”. The custom counter and pastry case become the center of attention lending color and figure to the minimal, moody design insertions. The long space, with the top lit, twenty-five foot ceilings, is broken down with seating at the front and casework/counter at the rear. The design is both modern and old-world-handmade like the craft of the pastry chef......more

Retro Cafe Interior Design | Tehnikum | Moscow | FORM

Tehnikum is a bistro located in the heart of the city. The name was inspired by the drafting equipment store previously located in its place.
A new addition to the White Rabit Family holding, the project was conceived by restaurateur Boris Zarkov, chef Vladimir Mukhin and gastronaut Mikhail Druyan as a vibrant dining spot where innovative gastronomic ideas could be enjoyed by a diverse audience in a relaxed atmosphere.

The interior evolved with several themes in mind. The wall to wall painting installed by artist Dmitry Aske recalls soviet canteens, where epic mosaics or murals often took centre stage in an otherwise utilitarian interior. Its former history as a shop for drafting equipment is reflected in the details of furniture and lighting, which include drafting lamps by Le Corbusier among others. The central custom designed chandelier references Moscow metro light fixtures from the 60s and 70s.....more

Japanese Cafe Interior Design | Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto Cafe | Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Upon integrating Blue Bottle Coffee –– coming from America’s West Coast culture –– with the machiya (traditional townhouse) located along the approach way to Nanzenji Temple in Kyoto, we continued to focus on our design concept for all of the Blue Bottle Coffee shops we designed, which is to “create equal relationships” throughout the space.

The existing floor, raised 50cm above the ground conforming to a characteristic style of traditional Japanese architecture, was demolished to make a new floor level with the ground. In order to visually continue the pebbled ground into the interior, terrazzo containing the same type of pebbles as the ground was used to finish the floor. The floor inside the counter is also level with the customer area to maintain the same eye level between customers and staff following the same concept as the other shops, while integrating Japanese and American cultures at the same time. .......more