Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery

Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud

Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery

BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION
Daniel Zamarbide, Jolan Haidinger

PUBLICATION DRAWINGS
Ignacio Martínez Pendás, Taïma Matthes

GRAPHIC DESIGN, BRANDING AND SIGN PAINTING
Branding And Sign Painting: Basile Jeandin

PROJECT EXECUTION
Jolan Haidinger (project manager), Marco Pallaoro, Driss Veyry

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide

CONCEPT DESIGN
Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Jolan Haidinger

PHOTOGRAPHS
Dylan Perrenoud

AREA
200 m²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Geneva, Switzerland

CATEGORY
Coffee Shop, Coffee Shop Interiors

Two years of covid have pushed everyone to a certain level of distrust.

We started the project of the Sawerdo with the fear that putting people around a table was an endangered gathering format.

Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud
Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud
Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud

The risk was taken, a sort of hopeful leap of faith by the founders, believing that the jumping microbes of a too-close neighbor would never be an obstacle to being together.

Instead, a bet was taken on the opposite scenario: the one by which proximity is a simple vector towards spontaneous conversation and exchange well beyond the fear of a viral other.

Our project spatialized and constructed this “moment” of our lives and put everything and everyone around a staged and very material table.

Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud
Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud
Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud

Beyond the obvious references to traditional bread-making materials like marble and steel speed racks, the idea became quite simple: a hosting table allowing a variety of configurations.

Somehow, the set is a half domestic, half professional one, between sharing “table d’hôtes” and dining in the interior of a bakery.

Jeff Wall's image Dressing Poultry (2007) was shot on a farm near Vancouver, celebrating a moment of fun while working – preparing what will become food.

Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud
Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud
Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud

With an aesthetic at the antipodes of Sawerdo's project, this image has yet the same intention: to bring the act of cooking, nourishing, and sharing into a unifying whole of the living.

Like Jeff Wall's lightboxes, the Sawerdo had the chance to be in a very beautiful space that the project reveals as much as possible: an inhabited lightbox where scenes of life occur and will keep on happening as long as we understand that we are all biological beings or “viral others”.

Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud


Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud
Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud


Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud
Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud
Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery
© Dylan Perrenoud


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