French studio Uchronia has accomplished the interiors for Cafe Shin in Paris, which contains a central espresso counter topped with a washi-paper roof to emulate a standard Korean home.
Positioned on Rue des Petites-Écuries within the metropolis’s tenth arrondissement, Cafe Shin was designed to pay tribute to Seoul’s thriving espresso tradition.
“The concept was to create a spot that’s midway between Paris and Seoul,” Uchronia founder Julien Sebban informed Dezeen.
Within the centre of the cafe, Sebban and his staff positioned a espresso counter and open kitchen, the place pastries and kimbap seaweed rolls are ready.
The construction is constructed from easy gentle wooden, with handmade washi paper used to cowl the construction’s gabled roof – in addition to the encompassing cafe partitions – providing a recent tackle conventional Korean hanok homes.
Chunky coloured-ash stools by design studio Oryu Parts line the counter, mirrored in a gleaming base clad in sheets of hammered metallic.
In the direction of the again of Cafe Shin, Uchronia created an extra seating nook that takes cues from South Korean bathhouses often called jjimjilbang.
“The bathhouses gained reputation within the Nineteen Nineties and served as locations the place individuals used to hang around,” mentioned Sebban.
Accessed by way of small steps, the nook was designed with blocky built-in seating harking back to saunas and clad with swimming pool-style blue-ombre tiles by Dutch model Palet.
“The tile patterns and hues have been particularly created for this mission,” defined the designer.
Vibrant, flower-shaped Uchronia cushions synonymous with the studio’s daring design strategy have been scattered throughout the nook, which additionally options one other chunky ash stool.
“We needed to create an actual distinction between the primary room adorned with washi paper and this one, taking part in with transparency on one facet of the cafe and patterns on the opposite,” added Sebban.
Color-drenched espresso store by Uchronia references “sunsets within the Tunisian desert”
The identical tiles that line the nook have been used to clad the eatery’s blue-hued facade and to create a wall-mounted shelf and bar counter in the primary room, offering additional storage and seats for diners.
Cafe Shin is a collaboration between two mates – French chef Julien Sebbag and South Korean pastry chef Shin Eun Jung. The pair created the cafe to “shake up the already established codes of conventional espresso retailers”.
Uchronia, which took house a Dezeen Award for rising inside design studio of the 12 months in 2023, has accomplished a variety of tasks in Paris characterised by vibrant colors and undulating shapes.
The studio’s portfolio contains a Haussmann-era condo designed for a duo of jewelry designers that resembles a “chromatic jewelry field” and Sebban’s self-designed house, created as a “love letter to French craft”.
The pictures is courtesy of Uchronia.
