FOODINSPACE / AWARDS 2024

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Alchemy Coffee, Philadelphia – USA

Project description

Alchemy Coffee is a café situated along the ground floor of a historic, pre-war Rittenhouse Square apartment building. Completed in 2022, the space is just under 1,000 SF and serves as a peaceful refuge along a bustling section of 21st Street just off the Walnut Street commercial corridor in the heart of Center City, Philadelphia.
A collaboration with a talented, passionate coffee connoisseur, Chris Stone (who comes from a James Beard Award-winning family) resulted in an interior reflecting the artisanal nature of the shop’s high-quality products and the mixed Japanese and West African heritage of its owner. Inspired by the third-wave coffeeshops of Tokyo – in both philosophy and approach – the attention to detail typically directed towards espresso was focused on creating a shop that rivals some of the best coffee bars in the world.

 

Text description: LO Design
Photographer
Round Three Photography            
Architecture Firm
LO Design            

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