Ester Bruzkus Architekten

KaDeWe Café Berlin

KaDeWe Café Berlin
© Robert Rieger

KaDeWe Café Berlin 

Ester Bruzkus Architekten

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Ester Bruzkus & Peter Greenberg

CUSTOM LIGHTING
Litec-Leuchten

MANUFACTURERS
Fornace Brioni, Nendo

FF&E PROCUREMENT
Studio Coucou

PHOTOGRAPHS
Robert Rieger

AREA
35 m²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Berlin, Germany

CATEGORY
Detail, Decoration & Ornament, Coffee Shop Interiors

The café, located on the top floor of Berlin’s KaDeWe, is a play of materials, textures, colors, and forms.

The project is intended as a delicious trifle that combines contrasts of smooth and textured, refined and raw, natural and synthetic, glossy and matte, muted and bright, traditional and new.

KaDeWe Café Berlin
© Robert Rieger
KaDeWe Café Berlin
© Robert Rieger
KaDeWe Café Berlin
© Robert Rieger

The design offsets cool stainless steel, mirrored metals, and glossy orange and lavender powder coats with two types of warm and natural terra cotta tiles.

Both the marbled tiles on the walls and the fluted tiles on the counter are from the tile manufacturer Fornace Brioni.

Unlike the crisp machine-aesthetic of the metals that are used, the terra cotta tiles are made by expert hand-crafting techniques that produce a unique marbled surface by mixing different clays. “We like to mix and match in unexpected combinations,” explains Ester Bruzkus.

KaDeWe Café Berlin
© Robert Rieger
KaDeWe Café Berlin
© Robert Rieger
KaDeWe Café Berlin
© Robert Rieger

The result attempts to resolve some themes of contemporary design to bring together opposites - natural and artificial, colorful and muted, hand-crafted and machined – in order to make a fun place to get a cup of coffee when you are shopping at the KaDeWe.


KaDeWe Café Berlin
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KaDeWe Café Berlin
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Ester Bruzkus Architekten
T +49 30 23597940
Ester Bruzkus Architekten
Schwedter Str. 34a, 10435 Berlin, Germany