Home Café is a distinctive space whose industrial aesthetic is dominated by its partitions: compositions of rebar, bookshelves and plants shape the identity of this Chinese eatery.
The Penda team was commissioned by the company Hongkun to build it, with the possibility that its concept could serve as a model for a series of cafés across China.
The idea was to create a café where visitors could take a deep breath of clean air, escaping the air pollution that plagues Chinese cities. The wooden planters hold easy-to-grow plants that help refresh the air, along with herbs, while some of them also contain freshly ground coffee, placed selectively so that its aroma spreads through the air.
The rebar has been recycled and is the main decorative element. Painted black, the bars are joined together to form a grid, whose openings create rectangular frames that house shelves of different sizes. The grid on the ceiling holds the industrial lighting fixtures.
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Design: Penda
Photos: Zhi Xia
Source: contemporist.com
Editing: Natasa Lianopoulou
