Cafes and Bars: The Architecture of Public Display

by Grafe; Christoph

• ISBN13: 9780415363280
• ISBN10: 0415363284
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-11-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and reinvention of cities across Europe and North America. This volume presents and examines this significant urban architectural production, and discusses it against a background of the design of cafes and bars across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Major themes and developments are discussed and illustrated with case studies, from the functionalist pre-World War Two architects in Central Europe representing modern society through the design of public spaces, right up to the design of sophisticated bars and cafes as part of the recent urban renaissance of Barcelona and Paris in 1980s and London in the '90s.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations Illustration credits Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction Christoph Grafe and Franziska Bollerey

The architecture of cafFs, coffeehouses and public bars Christoph Grafe

Setting the stage for modernity: the cosmos of the coffee house Franziska Bollerey

Scenes from the cafF - gossip, politics and the creation of personalities: A selection of texts from and on cafFs Christoph Grafe

CafFs Hermann Czech Case studies CaffT Pedrocchi, Padua (1826-1831)

CafF Riche/CafF de la Paix, Paris (1804/1894 and 1863)

CafF Central, Vienna (1875)

CafF Bauer, Berlin (1878)

The Philharmonic Hotel, Liverpool (1898-1900)

CafF AmFricain, Amsterdam (1902)

The Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow (1904)

American Bar (Krntnerbar), Vienna (1907/1908)

CafF Worpswede, Worpswede (1924/1925)

Hotel-CafF Avion, Brno (1927/1928)

Bar Craja, Milan (1930)

La Maison du CafF, Paris (1933)

Seagram Executive Bar, New York (1936)

Coco Tree Bar, Los Angeles (1933)

CafF Kranzler, Berlin (1958)

Splugen Bru, Milan (1960)

Niban Kan, Tokyo (1970)

CafF Costes, Paris (1984)

Zsa Zsa, Barcelona (1988)

MAK CafF, Vienna (1993)

Schutzenberger, Strasbourg (1999)

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