193. "Bless Coffee" Cafe Humidor - a photo on Flickriver

            
atelier ying, at the Traveler's Factory, Nakameguro, Tokyo

After 15 long years, seeing Tokyo again is bittersweet. A lot of old places are gone or updated; I still love the Doutor 's chain cafes. 

On Showa-dori is a coffee house with an upbeat feeling and an old comfy style. It's pleasantly noisy too. 

Here I convert a model of it into a portable cafe and humidor. Rows of windows above the cafe are used as slots with glass doors for newspapers and cigars. A kind of vending machine feeling. On the ground level a reproduction of the cafe interior immediately creates it's own ambience. A tiny case with signature cookies and a service area to take out coffee in tiny porcelain cups gives the regular customer all he needs to whittle away the evening hours till 22:00.

A note for a camera layout is really superfluous here, although I have put it in. A coffee, a sweet, a newspaper and a mild Lonsdale are all one needs. 

Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.

Taken on: May 3, 2014

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Focal Length:	4.1mm
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Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
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White Balance:	Auto
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