Author : Edwin Heathcote
Publisher : Academy Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis London Caffs by : Edwin Heathcote
Download or read book London Caffs written by Edwin Heathcote and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2004-11-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's caffs occur like shots of urban deja vu surviving in the city's most unexpected corners. A fading Formica and tile-covered world of cheap, basic food, thumbed tabloids, frothy coffee machines, and a rooted, genuinely local culture. It is a world holding out against the corporate uniformity engulfing the city's streets and a realm which blends modernist aesthetics with a typically British utility functionalism. The gleaming chrome of the spluttering coffee machines are London's equivalents of the steaming vents which punctuate New York's streets, like geysers spewing up essence of coffee from beneath the labyrinthine city, essential outlets from the pressure of the city. They are sets for an eccentric mix of buzz, bonhomie and the forlorn existential angst of the half-empty urban interior and an unmissable part of London cityscape.