French studio Cut Architectures tore down a suspended ceiling and stripped away wallpaper from the former shop to reveal bare walls and original mouldings.
Visitors to Café Coutume are served drinks from conical flasks and can choose pastries from a white tiled display cabinet.
Fluorescent tubes hang vertically from the ceiling behind low-energy Plumen bulbs, which won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award 2011 earlier this year
The blend of tradition, alchemy and technique inspired CUT architectures design.
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