Product Description

Modern society’s most intense and vibrant interaction takes place over tables and bars. Architects all over the world have enhanced and orchestrated this experience. Ranging over nine countries and four continents, this book presents an international selection of distinctive cafés and restaurants built in recent years by the world’s hippest architects and designers. Filled with dramatic effects, innovative lighting, and infinite solutions to the challenges of space and material, these hot spots, meeting places, and intimate venues are designed to suit the ever-changing moods of a selective and fickle clientele. This compact yet lavishly illustrated book, aimed at professionals and anyone who enjoys the latest and best in restaurant design, includes over 400 photographs of remarkable spaces and also offers a comprehensive study of contemporary interior architecture.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88625 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-15
• Original language: Italian, Spanish, German, English, French
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 400 pages

From the Publisher
A completely new, as opposed to a revised version, of teNeues’ best-selling Cafés & Restaurants (3-8238-5478-X). A comprehensive study of contemporary interior architecture by the world’s hippest architects and designers.

About the Author
Joachim Fischer edited Cool Restaurants Berlin (3-8238-4585-3) which was published by teNeues last fall.

Customer Reviews

GREAT RESOURCE!!
A winner in its class! This book is a great resource and value. For under $20.00 it has great visual information for the architect or designer, or the interested design afficionado. Unlike most picture books on restaurants, which feature themey, ugly, resort type projects, this book has loads of fresh, modern design. A must have for restaurant designers.

I was going to give 1 star until I realized...
...that the error was mine. I ordered this along with a whole host of other books on the restaurant business. I didn't realize that it was a book of pictures. I thought it was that and some kind of description about what we were looking at. It's not. Only pictures.

I dropped it to 3 stars though because (while certainly interesting cases) most every business featured is an ultra-modern style. That, plus there are absolutely no case-by-case descriptions of what it is the authors found attractive or important about the designs.

Christian Hunter
Owner - Sevilla Restaurant, Santa Barbara California

Impressive survey of the best and most innovative settings
The latest edition to the outstanding Te Neues "Designpocket" series, Cafe & Restaurant Design is a compact, 399-page, superbly illustrated compendium of cafe and restaurant interior designs and layouts throughout Europe, America, and around the world. From Cafe Gioriette in Vienna, to the Plaza Athenee in Paris, to the Cocoon Club in Frankfurt, to La Frustra in Rome, to the Lupino Lounge Restaurant in Barcelona, to the Berns Hotel in Stockholm, to Ini Ani Coffee Shop in New York, to Icebergs Dining Room & Bar in Sydney, to Moph in Tokyo, to La Scala in Bangkok, this series of pictorials is an impressive survey of the best and most innovative settings in which people gather to dine and socialize. Cafe & Restaurant Design is a particularly welcome and highly recommended addition to professional and academic Interior Design reference collections.