A coffee shop in a coffee bag

I don't think you've ever imagined drinking your coffee in a bag of coffee beans. However, the designers at Innarch, an architectural firm in Pristina, Kosovo have imagined this. They designed the decor of the first café opened in Pristina by the company that owns the Don Cafe brand as a giant coffee bag. Don Cafe House, as the café is called, offers its customers the joy of tasting coffee in a unique setting.

Coffee-flavoured decor

The walls of the café are constructed of 2 and 4 cm wide plywood, so cut, shaped and coloured as to suggest the folds of bags filled with coffee beans. To achieve this organic shape, the pieces of plywood were cut separately on the CNC, then laid and joined together in a flowing pattern. To clad all the walls and the bar, 1365 sheets of plywood were needed. At the bottom, the bag shaping resulted in uniquely shaped benches to sit on to enjoy coffee and quiet moments.

The light fittings are made of pieces of wood arranged and coloured like coffee beans. They are arranged asymmetrically, to suggest the coffee beans sitting in a bag.

Tables and chairs complement the overall look. The shape and design of the table tops is a felie of roasted coffee bean, the chairs have coffee-coloured legs - reddish brown - and the fabric the colour of the coffee bag.

The decoration is completed by the central pillars of the building dressed in pieces of burlap from coffee sacks.

The design of the café is a very interesting and original idea. But the realisation of all the elements that suggest the sack - the plywood elements lining the walls, the tables, the chairs, the light fittings, the sackcloth, the perfectly matched colours - is truly a remarkable thing.