With the London coffee scene continuing to rapidly evolve, Retail Focus surveys current trends and recent developments in their April issue coffee shop survey. We were delighted to have the new Coffeesmiths shop The Liberty of Norton Folgate profiled alongside the latest concepts of international brands such as Nespresso and Starbucks. It’s another reflection that [...]
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In Focus: The Liberty of Norton Folgate in Sharp Contrast
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Tripping the Light Fantastic
At approximately 24m long, 8.5m high but only 2.6m deep, designing and fitting out the latest Coffeesmiths site at 201 Bishopsgate has been a conceptual, practical, operational and logistical challenge. However, it is these proportions and the gently curved glass frontage that give the site so much of its appeal. Without fail, everyone visiting the [...]
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Speakeasy Espresso & Brew Bar
Speaking and listening Coffee is a social drink, and coffee shops are social environments. Coffeesmiths is always taking inspiration from London’s last coffee heyday in the post-War period as a springboard to explore what a coffee shop can and should be in the contemporary context. The success of Department of Coffee and Social Affairs has [...]
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A Work In Progress
With genuine ambition, vision and message, Barbican’s OMA/Progress exhibition builds and deconstructs the purpose of architecture whilst celebrating its process. Curated by Rotor, the deliberately fragmented and eclectic exhibition freely uses the guise of presenting OMA’s body of work as a case study to explore the issues, values and preoccupations of architects and their implication [...]
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A Vista to Things Unseen: Imagined Cities
As part of the London Design Festival 2011 Imagined Cities showcases the freshest and most intelligent architectural design talent London has to offer. Celebrating London Design Festival 2011, Dainow&Dainow have selected the best work of London’s most recent graduates placing it alongside the work of established talents in a unique exhibition Imagined Cities. Curated by [...]
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