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Café Coutume by CUT Architectures
Tiled surfaces, scientific apparatus and plastic curtains turn this Paris cafe into a coffee laboratory.
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French studio CUT Architectures tore down a suspended ceiling and stripped away wallpaper from the former shop to reveal bare walls and original mouldings.
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Visitors to Café Coutume are served drinks from conical flasks and can choose pastries from a white tiled display cabinet.
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Flowering plants grow inside stainless steel sinks and an industrial coffee grinder is kept behind a clear plastic curtain.
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Flooring and tables in the cafe are made from oak.
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Fluorescent tubes hang vertically from the ceiling behind low-energy Plumen bulbs, which won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award 2011 earlier this year - see the story here.
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Other recently featured cafes on Dezeen include one flanked by woven steel wire and another overlapping a car park - see all our stories about restaurant and bar interiors here.
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Photography is by David Foessel.
Here is some more text from the architects:
Coutume is a new coffee roastery in Paris offering a cut edge selection of pure origin roasted coffees.
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CUT architectures designed the first Coutume café in the centre of Paris combining a roastery and a café offering the best coffees in Paris and a neat selection of fresh and organic food and delicacies.
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In the spirit of speciality coffee, the experts at Coutume give the opportunity to rediscover the coffee culture with high end tools and machines.
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The blend of tradition, alchemy and technique inspired CUT architectures design.
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Tearing down the walls and ceilings brought back a typical Parisian interior with high ceilings, mouldings, columns and an old shop door. A new oak flooring adds up to the Parisian atmosphere.
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CUT architectures set in this decor a laboratory of coffee using square white tiles, grid lighting, stainless steel, industrial plastic curtains, laboratory glassware.
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The plain oak tables were designed for Coutume as the fusion of this Parisian interior and the laboratory.
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Coutume café's design has been selected along wih Rem Koolhaas le Dauphin and Patrick Bouchain's la Grenouillère by the restaurant critics of lefooding.com
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