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Classic Cafes (Paperback)

by Adrian Maddox (Author)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Black Dog Publishing Ltd (4 Dec 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 190103383X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1901033830
  • Product Dimensions: 24.9 x 21 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 669,391 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.'


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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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Lovingly compiled, 17 Mar 2005
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A great coffee table book, if only for the photographs of the opulent, brash, garish, banal and seedy "classic cafes" that the author has meticulously and lovingly compiled in this beautiful book. Great for anyone interested in cafe culture, with a special interest in the capital's fast disappearing "greasy spoons". Something to note, since this book's publication, a lot more cafes mentioned in its pages have disappeared. Check out the author's website for an up-to-date list of these cafes, if you feel inspired to visit after reading this book.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Caffs With Character, 21 Feb 2004
This is a wonderful, enthusiastically compiled celebration of that great institution, the proper caff, in all its faded glory. It's a timely celebration too as these places are increasingly lost to history. The history's all here, entertainingly written and meticulously researched with loads of beautiful photographs. A book to return to again and again as a reminder of those quirky places that were there long before the big names took the character out of cafes.
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