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Distressed concrete, rowlock bricks and worn plasterwork create an deliberately unfinished look at this cafe in New York Metropolis’s East Village neighbourhood, designed by Brooklyn studio Commoncraft.

For its enlargement into Manhattan, New Jersey-based Kuppi Espresso Firm secured a 350-square-foot house on bustling St Marks Place – its second location.

Textured concrete plaster envelops the inside of Kuppi Cafe within the East Village

The compact inside has simply sufficient house for a buyer space and the cafe counter, plus a prep space and a WC for workers on the again.

Commoncraft approached the front-of-house house with an ethos akin to wabi-sabi, the Japanese artwork of “flawed magnificence”.

Cafe counter faced with rowlock-course bricks
Commoncraft selected supplies for the house that seem purposefully tough and unfinished

“Using a spread of tough and uncooked supplies, Commoncraft’s design of Kuppi Cafe seeks out the sweetness in imperfection,” mentioned the studio, which was based by Zach Cohen and Tony-Saba Shiber.

Textured concrete plaster curves up from two perpendicular partitions and over the ceiling, enveloping the room along with the concrete ground.

Concrete interior with small brick bench against a wall
The compact house encompasses a small bench for patrons awaiting their orders

The place these partitions meet, a vertical factor is wrapped in bluish plaster that is peeling away to disclose a whitewash beneath.

The Kuppi emblem is utilized faintly on the high, and stainless-steel cabinets for displaying merchandise are minimize into a part of the pillar’s nook.

Brick cafe counter facing a glass facade
The cafe counter is confronted in bricks stacked on their sides to show their “guts”

Zones for buyer interplay – together with the service counter and a small bench – are outlined by terracotta bricks, that are stacked on their sides in rowlock programs “to show their core and mortar ‘guts’.”

“Every terracotta quantity is terminated by a course of minimize bricks, additional revealing the tough, imperfect cores,” Commoncraft mentioned.

In such a compact house, the designers have ensured that their idea carries by way of every of the cafe’s parts.

“The fabric honesty of the house is additional bolstered by quite a few small particulars,” mentioned Commoncraft.

A corner element is wrapped in bluish plaster
A nook factor is wrapped in bluish plaster that is distressed to disclose a whitewash beneath

These embody floating chrome steel cabinets behind the counter, a freestanding glass splash guard for baked items and spherical concrete pendant lights suspended at completely different heights above the bench.

The cafe is extremely seen from the high-traffic road by way of its totally glazed facade.

A counter terminated by a course of cut bricks, with a glass enclosure for pastries on top
The counter is terminated by a course of minimize bricks

New York Metropolis is residence to 1000’s of cafes and occasional retailers, together with many unbiased institutions with distinctive interiors meant to entice clients inside.

Amongst them is one other Commoncraft undertaking: a Williamsburg eatery named Gertie designed as a playful tribute to the proprietor’s grandmother.

The pictures is by Andrew Fu.


Mission credit:

Consumer: Kuppi Espresso Firm (Kevin and Vivian Kim)
Structure and inside design: Commoncraft
Plumbing engineer: Alan R Schwartz
Normal contractor: LTI Building Corp

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