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Gilda Bruno

WatchHouse's Newest London Coffee Shop Might Be Its Best-Designed Yet — Here's Where It Is, and How to Capture Its "Ornate-but-Industrial" Style

A theatrical cafe interior features backlit ceilings, white curtains, a chrome-clad, reflective bar counter, and chocolate leather stools with silver legs.

If you're a Londoner, you might already be familiar with WatchHouse. Well, coffee culture's most sophisticated group has just landed on Millennium Bridge, and its twenty-third London outpost takes the minimalist-sleek look of founder Roland Horne's design-driven concept to the riverbank. For those unfamiliar, WatchHouse was established on the British capital's Bermondsey Street in 2014, and has since grown into a world-renowned portfolio of cafes across London, New York, and the UAE.

Sourced from the finest producers of blends and single-origin offerings around the globe and roasted locally in its dedicated London Coffee Lab, WatchHouse takes on high-street coffee chains by keeping standout specialty coffee, fresh food, and evocative design at its heart. The goal? "Move coffee and those who drink it forward". That WatchHouse is behind some of the most iconic coffee shops in London is a fact, and that wouldn't have been the case without the contribution of lead designers Deidra Hodgson, Thomas-McBrien, and CAKE, the last studio of whom has envisioned the interiors of the new Millennium Bridge cafe.

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