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Any three coffees brewed on AeroPress, poured for one or two.
Curator’s note
Leon Wansikehian's interest in espresso started at 14, and this Play sits on the Plaza in Old Towne Orange, the town he grew up in. He set out to make the room new and appealing without clashing with the historical integrity of the building it took over.
The Coffee
The bar was fitted out with Modbar AV2 espresso, a Mahlkönig E65S GbW, April Brewers for pour-over, a Curtis G4 for batch and a Marco Friia system for the water. Hot drinks go out in PLA and PET cups with industrially compostable Phade straws, and the bar recycles all its glass.
The Vibe
Designwork Studios drew this one for the 1928 Wells Fargo bank on the Orange Plaza, a space that had never held anything else, and put the espresso bar in the middle as a 360-degree island where the staff work in full view. Capsule made the bar, Victoria Rivas set the creative direction, and chairs by Alvar Aalto and Waka Waka sit at Muller Van Severen tables.
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