Lebkov and Sons Café — Amsterdam, Netherlands

An image showing the interior of the restaurant
(Image credit: www.lebkov.nl)

Since it was unveiled in 2009, Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat’s The Rock tower has struck a distinctive pose, its angular bulk a head-turning addition to Amsterdam’s southern Zuidas skyline. And now, office drones from the neighbourhood’s haul of MNCs and institutions – including VU University Amsterdam – have an equally distinctive watering hole in which to gather for a stylish bite.

For the new outpost of local favourite café chain Lebkov & Sons, the Paris-based Studio Akkerhuis has created a concrete space that is styled as a domestic kitchen and living room, its open plan filled with light and demarcated into zones by the strategic placement of modular steel cubes that act as shelves and room dividers, communal tables and long angular benches.

The centrepiece of the industrial-lite space is a huge coffee bar and open kitchen whose base is clad in a crumpled creamy black and white crossed tessellation made of wooden panels engraved with light crosses – the effect calls to mind an oversized Issey Miyake Baobao bag - by Milan-based company Wood-Skin.

The menu offerings are, as one might expect, no-nonsense in the spread of coffee, sandwiches, daily soups, cakes juices, with quotidian bestsellers including the Kenyan filtered Joe and a house-baked lemon poppy-seed cake.

An image showing the interior of the restaurant

(Image credit: www.lebkov.nl)

An image showing the interior of the restaurant

(Image credit: www.lebkov.nl)

An image showing the interior of the restaurant

(Image credit: www.lebkov.nl)

An image showing the interior of the restaurant

(Image credit: www.lebkov.nl)

An image showing the interior of the restaurant

(Image credit: www.lebkov.nl)

ADDRESS

Claude Debussylaan 130

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Daven Wu is the Singapore Editor at Wallpaper*. A former corporate lawyer, he has been covering Singapore and the neighbouring South-East Asian region since 1999, writing extensively about architecture, design, and travel for both the magazine and website. He is also the City Editor for the Phaidon Wallpaper* City Guide to Singapore.

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