Display shelves are edged with a brass trim. Created from a combination of solid wood and CNC-routed HI-MACS solid surface material in pure white, the chevron motif is inset in an irregular pattern to take the design from wood on one side, to white on the other. The scheme's focal point is provided by the service counter and display wall, the design of which provides a deliberately new intervention to contrast with the rough surfaces of the existing interior. The Nonla lights by Paul Crofts – a contemporary interpretation of a traditional utility light fitting – appears in various sizes, while unfinished hot-rolled steel is used to line the kitchen walls and for the wall-mounted menus. Banquettes upholstered in a military green create a delineation between old and new, running in a continuous line from the window reveals to the waiter station by the main door.īespoke solid oak tables, featuring the chevron motif screen-printed in a mixture of grey and white, have metal powder coated legs inspired by an industrial workbench. Paul Crofts Studio’s scheme for the cafe leaves original features intact and exposed, while inserting new elements to contrast with the existing fabric of the building.Ī chevron motif derived from the insignia on military uniforms can be found throughout the scheme, seen on the table tops, oak display boxes, and the counter and display wall. The building has been stripped back to a shell, while retaining character and authenticity. The cafe can be found in the industrial setting of the former factories and warehouses of Royal Arsenal Riverside, an area famed since the seventeenth century for producing munitions for the Royal Navy and armed forces. Paul Crofts Studio sent us the project description below: See more architecture and design in London » The most popular cafes we've published lately include a Bucharest coffee shop with 276 cups suspended from the ceiling and a waterside bistro in Vietnam with a roof supported by conical bamboo columns. Paul Crofts Studio also recently completed a bakery with a graphic based on a magpie nest etched into the wooden counter. Various shapes and sizes of Paul Crofts' Nonla pendant lights are suspended from the ceiling, positioned between the white truss beams.īlackboard menus are mounted on the walls between strips of hot-rolled steel above oak display boxes for storing crockery and dry snacks. In the centre of the cafe, oak tables with white powder-coated metal legs are printed with grey and white arrows that alternate with the wood. Perhaps if the chef does as well as he deserves he’ll buy a few more tables to fill the place out at the moment, it had the atmosphere of an undergraduate art show with added seats.The studio stripped back the interior to the original brick and render wall finishes and installed wooden seating booths with green upholstery along one side. It’s not built for passing trade and it’s too big, really, for its purpose. “It just felt right”, Brown told me of the site, but God knows why (rent?). If you spot him slicking back his hair and strutting about in black leather, have a word.Ĭornerstone is on Prince Edward Road, near an old security firm. Brown also seems less given to posturing and pretension than Alex Turner, but time will tell if fame goes to his head the same way. They should: the restaurant is much more consistently good then their patchy back catalogue. Round the corner from Hackney Wick overground – where, though there's no ticket barriers, I watched a man haul his beard, leg tattoos and skateboard over a station fence – is Cornerstone, a seafood restaurant by Tom Brown.īrown is young, very popular in the trade and likes the Arctic Monkeys enough to name his place after them, a theme he continues on the cocktail menu. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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