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STORY BY Will Wiriawan
There are demands for an alternate space neither the office, nor a home can adequately provide: a public ground with some kind of isolation and a home without its restriction, a workspace with some touch of casualness and good beverages. At the hands of the creatives, coffee shops are anything but. Many of the world's best-selling literal works are produced there, so did some of the recent internet successes. Early drafts of this writing were penned in not one but several shops mentioned in this essay. More than that, some even have become destinations in their own right.
Specialty coffee seems to fill the gaps between a home and an office. There, coffee is not just another beverage on the menu, coffee is the menu. From the origins of the beans, to the brewing method, or the dozen or so blend of exotic-sounding beans and processing methods. Coffee has been elevated to wine-like status. This new way of coffee allows a break from the old norms of café design rules. The coffee shop has become the designers' design playground, where they can experiment with ideas, taking bold risks, and in the name of coffee, have thrived in doing so.