193. "Bless Coffee" Cafe Humidor
atelier ying, at the Traveler's Factory, Nakameguro, Tokyo
After 15 long years, seeing Tokyo again is bittersweet. A lot of old places are gone or updated; I still love the Doutor 's chain cafes.
On Showa-dori is a coffee house with an upbeat feeling and an old comfy style. It's pleasantly noisy too.
Here I convert a model of it into a portable cafe and humidor. Rows of windows above the cafe are used as slots with glass doors for newspapers and cigars. A kind of vending machine feeling. On the ground level a reproduction of the cafe interior immediately creates it's own ambience. A tiny case with signature cookies and a service area to take out coffee in tiny porcelain cups gives the regular customer all he needs to whittle away the evening hours till 22:00.
A note for a camera layout is really superfluous here, although I have put it in. A coffee, a sweet, a newspaper and a mild Lonsdale are all one needs.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.
193. "Bless Coffee" Cafe Humidor
atelier ying, at the Traveler's Factory, Nakameguro, Tokyo
After 15 long years, seeing Tokyo again is bittersweet. A lot of old places are gone or updated; I still love the Doutor 's chain cafes.
On Showa-dori is a coffee house with an upbeat feeling and an old comfy style. It's pleasantly noisy too.
Here I convert a model of it into a portable cafe and humidor. Rows of windows above the cafe are used as slots with glass doors for newspapers and cigars. A kind of vending machine feeling. On the ground level a reproduction of the cafe interior immediately creates it's own ambience. A tiny case with signature cookies and a service area to take out coffee in tiny porcelain cups gives the regular customer all he needs to whittle away the evening hours till 22:00.
A note for a camera layout is really superfluous here, although I have put it in. A coffee, a sweet, a newspaper and a mild Lonsdale are all one needs.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.