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Sandi Toksvig, BBC Radio 4
'The coffee bar has been around for a while….Adrian Maddox is a man obsessed with the ambience and architecture of Britain's 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 Ð originally vilified in the 1950s 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 revealed and reappraised. For 50s 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 70s their original spirit had been extinguished and throughout the 80s and 90s 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. Through the celebrated images of Phil Nicholls and the enthusiasm and attention to detail of Adrian Maddox the classic cafe is here explored in all its glorious detail.
'The coffee bar has been around for a while….Adrian Maddox is a man obsessed with the ambience and architecture of Britain's classic cafes.'
Book Description
Often dismissed as ‘greasy spoons’, classic cafes are actually little gems of British vernacular high street commercial design. Here the last remaining enclaves Ð originally vilified in the 1950s 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 revealed and reappraised. For 50s 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 70s their original spirit had been extinguished and throughout the 80s and 90s 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. Through the celebrated images of Phil Nicholls and the enthusiasm and attention to detail of Adrian Maddox the classic cafe is here explored in all its glorious detail.
The layout of Classic Cafes has been influenced by 50s design, typography and style to reflect the subject matter.
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