Classic cafes
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Often dismissed as "greasy spoons", classic cafes are actually little gems of British vernacular high street commercial design. Here the last remaining enclaves – originally vilified in the 1950's for their embodiment “of corrupt brightness, of improper appeals and moral evasions . . . a sort of spiritual dry rot amid the odour of boiled milk” – are extensively reviewed,(...)
avril 2003, London / New York
Classic cafes
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Often dismissed as "greasy spoons", classic cafes are actually little gems of British vernacular high street commercial design. Here the last remaining enclaves – originally vilified in the 1950's for their embodiment “of corrupt brightness, of improper appeals and moral evasions . . . a sort of spiritual dry rot amid the odour of boiled milk” – are extensively reviewed, revealed and reappraised. For 50's Britain, cafes once represented a European dynamism that added much needed colour to Britain’s post-war social, artistic and commercial scene. However, by the late 1970's their original spirit had been extinguished and throughout the 80's and 90's they fell into disuse – despised and forgotten. Today these classic cafes retain a quintessential, poignant quality of lost English drabness and a "contemporary" utilitarian minimalist aesthetic that marks them out as icons of design.