18/06/2021
Looking forward to meeting, eating and bumping into each other again soon!
The freelancer culture of working in cafes seems a life time ago. Before working from home became a necessity, cafes offered the chance to get away from your living space, the flexibility to work from multiple locations across the city, and have coffee meetings that rolled seamlessly into cocktails.
A few years ago we designed Stories on Broadway for the Mothership Group ( Patterns Brighton, The Book Club, Queen of Hoxton that we also designed for them), they approached us with exciting plans for a space that would accommodate a busy brunch service by day, a casual cocktail bar in the evening and a workspace for the local freelance community around that.
Design Direction, Furniture and Lighting for Stories, Broadway Market.
Folded sheet metal brackets paired with solid Oak I-beams are the basis for the furniture range and the lights are folded sheets of paper floating in the space on pulleys to change from low level reading light to larger diffuser for a more social atmosphere. The walls and floor became a swatch library of colour tones and finishes, the rain forest wall in Cactus Corner a place to imagine our dream collage of a reading room in the Barbican Conservatory.
The furniture is available to order in a range of colours and finishes, the lights are also available with or without adjustable pulleys.