Starbucks Espresso Journey by Nendo
This pop-up Starbucks coffee shop in Tokyo by Japanese design studio Nendo was designed like a library, where customers ordered drinks by taking books to the counter (+ slideshow).
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Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves lined the curved interior walls of the shop and were filled with books with nine different coloured covers, to represent each of the drinks being served.
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Customers were invited to read about different types of coffee from the cover sleeves of the otherwise empty books, before exchanging one at the counter for a corresponding drink.
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With their coffee, each customer was also given the sleeve to keep, which they could use to customise their own Starbucks takeaway flask.
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"The 'library' invites visitors to choose an espresso drink as they would a book, and verse themselves in espresso drinks as though quietly entering into a fictional world," says Nendo. "Books and coffee are both important parts of everyday life, so we created a link between favourite books and favourite coffees."
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The shop was installed at the start of September in the Omotesando neighbourhood and was open for just three weeks.
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Other Starbucks branches we've featured include one close to a Shinto shrine elsewhere in Japan and one inside a historic bank vault in the Netherlands.
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We've also published a few Nendo projects lately, including an installation of chairs during the London Design Festival and a woodland nesting box, as well as a collection of watches that we're now stocking at Dezeen Watch Store.
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Photography is by Daici Ano, apart from where otherwise stated.
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Above: photograph is by Hiroshi Iwasaki
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Above: photograph is by Hiroshi Iwasaki
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Above: photograph is by Hiroshi Iwasaki