Art, clothes and coffee at the SHOWstudio cafe
Where to go for a stiff espresso, some earnest culture debate and a spot of art-admiring that’s central but not besieged by tourists and prams? Ah hello the SHOWstudio art café – check you out with your artsy crockery, Brassai photos, vintage coffee machine and fancy Keith Tyson for Mother of Pearl fashions…!
42nd Street, New York, Coffee Drinker, Neil Libbert, £1,200
Picasso in Café Flore, Brassai, £5000
Phone Call, Saul Leiter, £2,800
Piers Atkinson Café hat, £4,500
Cloud choreography cup and saucer, Keith Tyson, £25
SHOWstudio cafe, 11:00 – 18:00, Tuesday-Saturday until 5th November.
20 October, 2011 @ 10:56 am
Love the Brassai photographs…might have to save up though..think I’ll just be going for a coffee for now!
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20 October, 2011 @ 2:53 pm
And it will never get mundane because it’ll be gone in a few weeks….
23 October, 2011 @ 5:49 pm
now c’mon DRG… be gentle with us pram-toting fashion ladies! you’ve no idea that challenge of finding a decent cafe that doesn’t have wipe-clean menus and chain-tat muffins. us baby-laden babes need stylish cafes too!
23 October, 2011 @ 6:00 pm
Ah bird parker I know, I’m being a complete bitch but I can’t stand how you go to a cafe and there are ten mums/nannies all having a coffee morning and letting the kids run amok. *huff* (Clearly I’m not a mum, hence the intolerence)