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Blacksheep Café in PSA

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Single-Brand Store
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Jason Traves
Jason Traves Chief Creative Officer at Lucky Fox
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6.5
Jasper Blüm
Jasper Blüm Senior Designer at Colliers
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6.25
William Barrington-Binns
William Barrington-Binns Director of Photography at WBB & Co.
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6.5
Anastasia Karandinou
Anastasia Karandinou Architect, Senior Lecturer at University of East London
I love how the big table allows for...
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Corien Pompe
Corien Pompe Chairman and Founder at Donna e Mobile
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6.5
Bret Recor
Bret Recor Founder & Creative Director at Box Clever
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6.5
Chen Xiaohu
Chen Xiaohu Cofounder and Brand Director at BloomDesign
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6.5
Li Baolong
Li Baolong Cofounder and Creative Director at BloomDesign
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7.5
Joanna van der Linden
Joanna van der Linden Global Retail Identity & Design Manager at Nestlé Nespresso
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3
5.75
Johnny Chiu
Johnny Chiu Founder at J.C. Architecture
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Richard Parr
Richard Parr Founder at Richard Parr Associates
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4.75
Stefano Giussani
Stefano Giussani CEO at Lissoni New York
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7.5
Client
Blacksheep Espresso
Floor area
130 ㎡
Completion
2019
Photographer
Eric

Blacksheep cafe uniquely reposes on a route from exhibitions to an exterior viewing platform in an art museum, where visitors rush across through the middle of the space. With the high popularity that the busy traffic brings comes with disturbance for the shop’s service and management, which is essential for the site’s layout development. Unlike an independent beverage business, Blacksheep cafe is facing a massive guest flow as being a part of the PSA Museum service. Meanwhile, settling by the gateway to the outdoor patio also makes it a necessary pass-through in one’s visit. It’s assumed that organising the space with ordinary table sets might only expose guests to the traffic disturbance, a set of holistic furniture, therefore, is instead placed in as an “island” to unify the space, by grouping its guests with its sensational form. The table set island is composed by interlocking plywood blocks which craft altogether a piece of desconstructivistic sculpture, scattering the light coming from the patio. The interconnecting form makes the furniture set a piece of art to behold for passing visitors, blurring the boundary between the art and commercial space. As part of the PSA museum’s service, located at the gateway to a patio, this project is expected to become a destination for visitors to take repose with an enjoyable beverage and city view, undisturbed by the busy traffic from the museum cutting across to the patio. It is achieved by a piece of sculpted furniture as a capstone for the layout arrangement. Different from the usual approach applied in regular architecture/interior projects, using a set of furniture as a dominant object for spatial organisation while satisfying functional expectation is an innovative attempt for this particular site. In regard to the traffic disturbance and its artistic context, a sculptural furniture set as an expressive piece of artifact to be placed in the centre of the space manages to provide both practical solution and aesthetic values.