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Mocha Mojo by Mancini Enterprises
Lego-like blocks are stacked along the walls of this cafe in Chennai by Indian studio Mancini Enterprises.
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Part of a chain called Mocha Mojo, the cafe caters for 110 customers on two levels.
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Lighting is concealed within the wall-mounted boxes, spilling out from above and below each colourful strata.
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Here are some more details from the designers:
Mocha Mojo
Chennai, India
Mocha Mojo is a coffeehouse with 110 covers in Madras providing a space for coffee and conversations.
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The design refers to the 70’s mastery of “special” – furniture/wallpaper which in turn dwelled on the early modernists’ approach towards interiors.
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Beauty through purity, reduction to functionalist objects, light on pure material on pure colour.
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Only in the 60s and 70s the old qualities of “opulence” and “ornament” were re-infused into interiors resulting in spaces of great intensity.
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It is this intensity, which was searched for in this project.
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Besides the carpenters and painters had great fun during the construction of those layers.
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They had been generated in 3d and then issued to site level by level – a simple process which not unlike childhood Lego triggered immediate visual satisfaction.
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Interior design by Mancini Enterprises in Chennai, India
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Project team: Niels Schoenfelder, Bharath Ram, V.S. Aneesh, R. Velu, Sangeetha Patrick, Natasha Jeyasingh