2015 Gallery
Winner: Best Cafe Design
studio-gram for Abbots & Kinney
South Australia
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A man that brought Venice to California served as the inspiration for bringing fine Italian Coffee and bespoke pastries to Adelaide, all found within a shop that seemingly has a split personality.
Jury Citation
Adelaides Abbots & Kinney is 2015s poster child for excellence in crafts-manship. The expressed timber frame wall, with its horizontal and diagonal noggings, encourages the eye to move through the space, echoing the strong diagonal split between honey-coloured wood and matt black zones. The black floor, extending up the wall to bisect the ceiling, creates a sense of intimacy and enclosure. The central bleacher-style seating adds sculptural interest, but is also a paean to technique its refined mortise and tenon jointing is an adaptation of a traditional Japanese self-suspension system. Whats more, its operationally functional, encouraging swift circulation of in-house traffic through the compact space. Simple wire-framed safety glass onto the kitchen and raw concrete on the floor speak of honesty and integrity but also a refinement of taste. In fact, its in the play between the radical simplicity of the overall concept and the extraordinary accomplish-ment of the execution and finish that this little bijoux truly shines.
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