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2 September 2015

Home Café: interior in the making

Francesca Tagliabue

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Home Cafe is an oasis of greenery and clean air in the chaos and pollution of Beijing. The restaurant, designed to be not only a place for a snack but also place to recharge through 360 degrees, was designed by the international and cross-cultural team, Penda. The interiors, modular and easily reconfigurable, are equipped with a structure made with reclaimed metal bars painted black. The structure houses shelves, table tops and many containers planted up with aromatic, climbing and decorative plants in order to create a contemporary indoor garden.

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interior design Penda Pechino

The plants, supported by a system of filters, contribute to ensuring that within Home Cafe one breathes fresh air. The unusual structure can be dismantled and reassembled in a short time, but its most interesting feature is that of being constantly in progress: thanks to the continued growth of the plants, the structure will always be increasingly covered by leafy branches and the interior will never be the same from one day to the next.

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details penda project at home cafè china

WHERE: Beijing

Home Cafe is an oasis of greenery and clean air in the chaos and pollution of Beijing. The restaurant, designed to be not only a place for a snack but also place to recharge through 360 degrees, was designed by the international and cross-cultural team, Penda. The interiors, modular and easily reconfigurable, are equipped with a structure made with reclaimed metal bars painted black. The structure houses shelves, table tops and many containers planted up with aromatic, climbing and decorative plants in order to create a contemporary indoor garden.
The plants, supported by a system of filters, contribute to ensuring that within Home Cafe one breathes fresh air. The unusual structure can be dismantled and reassembled in a short time, but its most interesting feature is that of being constantly in progress: thanks to the continued growth of the plants, the structure will always be increasingly covered by leafy branches and the interior will never be the same from one day to the next.
WHERE: Beijing

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