The third book in a series by Robert Schneider, Café Cool: feel-good inspiring designs features a beautifully curated assortment of 39 cafés and coffee shops from 26 cities around the world. The eagerly anticipated publication follows on from Coffee Culture: hot coffee + cool spaces, and Café Culture: for lovers of coffee and good design, and pays homage to the author’s belief that despite the 2020 global pandemic, it’s essential that we continue to champion and support quality coffee in places that exhibit great and gleeful interior designs.

The 256-page hardback is published by The Images Publishing Group, and illustrated by 270 colour photographs that not only capture the essence of Schneider’s stance, but indulge the reader in some first-rate eye candy; the author sharing his focus on modern contemporary designs while showcasing independent, local coffee hubs that sit at the heart of the community and foster an outstanding coffee experience.

Fifteen Steps Workshop Coffee / © Hey!Cheese.

Selected hotspots include the We Heart-featured Milky’s Coffee, Toronto, a tiny place with arresting geometric interiors, fine coffee and affability; Bonanza Coffee Roasters, a passionate team with cafés throughout Berlin; and Industry Beans, a warehouse, roasting facility, cupping room, espresso bar, café and packaging depot in Melbourne‘s hip Fitzroy neighbourhood. Copenhagen‘s April Coffee Roasters gets a mention, as does Crooked Nose & Coffee Stories in Vilnius; London‘s Formative Coffee; Monmouth Coffee; and Omotesando Koffee; White Rabbit Surf Café Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine; Drop Coffee in Dubai, and many, many more.

Accompanying the striking imagery is insightful commentary by the owners and designers whose words capture the feel and personality of each individual project and provide readers a backstory of how, why and when the venues came to be. A nod to fine coffee and design, and appreciating everyone involved from farmer growers to roasters, baristas, designers, architects, and so many others, Robert Schneider’s Café Cool is another brilliant document of an exciting epoch in coffee culture, and is available (alongside his previous publications) from his Amazon store from $38.76.

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Farouche Tremblant / © Raphael Thibodeau.

White Rabbit Surf Cafe / © Yevhenii Avramenko.

Thor Espresso Bar / © Ryan Fung.