There's an ongoing liaison between design and coffee culture, and it's making every cup even more invigorating. Textural plaster walls, collector-worthy painting and photography collections carefully hung up on the walls, and surreal environments that, at least at first glance, are more akin to film sets than fit for caffeine serving, are only a handful of the signs of the global coffee industry's recent aestheticization.
Complicit, perhaps, the growing desire to turn every moment — starting from our hard-to-plan, long-awaited friend catchups — into spendable 'content' (an expression I personally hate using, but that, unfortunately, reflects the zeitgeist), cafés in London, as well as anywhere else in the world, have become the next design hubs. The result is new, inspiring coffee roasters and indie bakeries being unveiled every month, each bearing the signature of some of today's most imaginative architecture and interior tastemakers, and, therefore, well worth a pin on your maps.
