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Tiled surfaces, scientific apparatus and plastic curtains turn this Paris cafe into a coffee laboratory.

French studio Cut Architectures tore down a suspended ceiling and stripped away wallpaper from the former shop to reveal bare walls and original mouldings.

Visitors to Café Coutume are served drinks from conical flasks and can choose pastries from a white tiled display cabinet.

Flowering plants grow inside stainless steel sinks and an industrial coffee grinder is kept behind a clear plastic curtain.

Flooring and tables in the cafe are made from oak.

Fluorescent tubes hang vertically from the ceiling behind low-energy Plumen bulbs, which won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award 2011 earlier this year – see the story here.

Other recently featured cafes on Dezeen include one flanked by woven steel wire and another overlapping a car park – see all our stories about restaurant and bar interiors here.

Here is some more text from the architects:

Coutume is a new coffee roastery in Paris offering a cut edge selection of pure origin roasted coffees.

CUT architectures designed the first Coutume café in the centre of Paris combining a roastery and a café offering the best coffees in Paris and a neat selection of fresh and organic food and delicacies.

In the spirit of speciality coffee, the experts at Coutume give the opportunity to rediscover the coffee culture with high end tools and machines.

The blend of tradition, alchemy and technique inspired CUT architectures design.

Tearing down the walls and ceilings brought back a typical Parisian interior with high ceilings, mouldings, columns and an old shop door. A new oak flooring adds up to the Parisian atmosphere.

CUT architectures set in this decor a laboratory of coffee using square white tiles, grid lighting, stainless steel, industrial plastic curtains, laboratory glassware.

The plain oak tables were designed for Coutume as the fusion of this Parisian interior and the laboratory.

Coutume café’s design has been selected along wih Rem Koolhaas le Dauphin and Patrick Bouchain’s la Grenouillère by the restaurant critics of lefooding.com

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Grand Cafe Usine by Bearandbunny	Hatched by Outofstock	Federal Café by Barbara Appolloni

A roof terrace can be glimpsed between the metallic grey timber beams that surround a two-storey house near Riga, Latvia.

House in Marupe was designed by Latvian architects Open AD.

Doors from the two first-floor bedrooms lead directly onto the screened upper terrace, above an open-plan living area that is visible through a circular roof light.

A third bedroom, utility rooms and a spa are also provided on the ground floor.

The floor of the house is finished in black concrete, while timber boards provide an external deck behind the building.

This building is only the second in Latvia to be featured on Dezeen – see also a sports hall inspired by chunks of amber washed up on the Baltic coast.

This week on Dezeen we’ve also published beautiful houses in Japan, Germany and Australia – see all our stories about houses here.

Photography is by Maris Lagzdins.

Here’s some more information from the architects:

The building was constructed around a growing body compositional center-
inner garden.

It was conceived Stylistics Japanese tsubo garden form of the
 Japanese garden culture generally been integrated inside the house, as a
recreational area.

Space around the garden was intended to be transparent, 
thereby fusing, at the same time separating the functions of acquiring and 
natural feeling to a room.

During project implementation, unfortunately, the
 customer refused to inner garden, adding indoor seating area.

Shape the direction of home was holding against the neighboring streets,
 parcel boundaries and corners.

Building a vertical direction followed by the 
sun span, thus the second floor of the south side places deeper,
 resulting in direct sunlight.

On the second floor bedroom has a spacious 
terrace with a planned green plants.

Building is finished with a blackish tree, creating a variety of boards in
 rhythm, but resulting in a seamless whole volume, where the main emphasis
 put on the form.

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Finishing a different highlight only the entrance area, 
including the smooth metal door in the plane.

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Emphasizing the building face, 
the remainder of the plot-driven corner wooden footbridge, situated in an
 outdoor fireplace.

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From there, the building is perceived in its entirety.

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Fulvic acid, cherries and cocoa power these new drinks with benefits

For bored palates, finding a delicious new drink with all the health benefits you want can be a tricky task. When plain water just isn’t cutting it and you’ve had all the pomegranate juice you can drink, give one of these a try.

Blk Water

Some things are fact: grass is green, the sky is blue, water is wet and…black? That doesn’t seem right. But Blk water is just that. The source of its unusual coloring can be traced to a blend of fulvic acid, which helps the transportation and absorption of healthy minerals and elements, electrolytes, antioxidants and free radical scavengers in plants. Mined from a 70-million-year-old source, the fulvic acid binds to the pure Canadian spring water used by Blk, coloring it black with no artificial dyes or additives. The company is run by the husband of a “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star and his nephew (whose mother is also a star of the show). A 24-pack is $55 on Amazon.

Cheribundi

For those craving a fruity drink packing a healthy punch, look no further than Cheribundi. Each all-natural eight-ounce bottle packs 50 tart cherries (that’s the equivalent of two servings of fruit) grown in Michigan and New York, rich in disease-fighting antioxidants. Cheribundi comes in three flavors: Tru Cherry (sweetened with apple juice), Skinny Cherry (sweetened with Stevia), and Whey Cherry (includes protein supplements). A 12-pack of Cheribundi sells for $28 on their website. It’s also available at Whole Foods.

Honest CocoaNova

Cacao beans possess many of the same benefits as the so-called “superfruits.” Each bottle of Honest CocoaNova is only fifty calories and contains all the antioxidants and theobromine found in dark chocolate. All CocoaNova flavors are organic. We tried all three—Cherry Cacao, Mint Cacao and Mocha Cacao—and loved them all. Visit the Honest site to find a retailer near you.