Cafes and Bars The Architecture of Public Display [Paperback]

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.

Introduction Christoph Grafe and Franziska Bollerey  1. The architecture of caf?s, coffeehouses and public bars Christoph Grafe  2. Setting the stage for modernity: the cosmos of the coffee house Franziska Bollerey  3. Scenes from the caf?  gossip, politics and the creation of personalities: A selection of texts from and on caf?s Christoph Grafe  4. Caf?s Hermann Czech  Case studies  Caff? Pedrocchi, Padua (18261831). Caf? Riche/Caf? de la Paix, Paris (1804/1894 and 1863). Caf? Central, Vienna (1875). Caf? Bauer, Berlin (1878). The Philharmonic Hotel, Liverpool (18981900). Caf? Am?ricain, Amsterdam (1902). The Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow (1904). American Bar (K?rntnerbar), Vienna (1907/1908). Caf? Worpswede, Worpswede (1924/1925). Hotel-Caf? Avion, Brno (1927/1928). Bar Craja, Milan (1930). La Maison du Caf?, Paris (1933). Seagram Executive Bar, New York (1936). Coco Trelc(