Livre - Cafés and bars

Cafés and Bars is part of a series of books aiming to investigate the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interior architecture. It looks at the architectural significance of cafés and bars throughout history and how their material construction has reflected, and possibly facilitated, the social and cultural practices for which they are renowned. Contemporary cafés and bars often attract the attention of significant designers and architects whose concepts are informed by a precise yet highly intuitive understanding of the role of interior design in visual strategy and branding. The book begins with a collection of essays tracing the development of cafés, coffee houses and bars from the mid-seventeenth century until the present day. These are followed by a series 21 case studies that are drawn in time and place from 1826 to 1999 and from the Parisian boulevard café to the Viennese Kaffeehaus and the English pub, and which show the vast range of form taken by the café over the centuries. Illustrated throughout with a wealth of photographs and line drawings, this book is an innovative and important contribution to the literature of architectural and interior design theory. Christoph Grafe is an architect based in Amsterdam and London, and Associate Professor of Architectural Design/Interiors at Delft University of Technology. An editor of the architectural journal OASE and the Journal of Architecture, he has published widely on post-war European and contemporary Dutch architecture and the modern public interior. Franziska Bollerey is Professor of History of Architecture and Town Planning at Delft University of Technology and director of the Institute of History of Art, Architecture and Urbanism (IHAAU) at Delft. She has published widely on utopian urban and architectural models, architecture and town planning of the early twentieth century and the emergence of the modern metropolis.