Design studio Linehouse combined stainless steel and meteorites to create a space-themed cafe in central Shanghai as Australian chain Black Star Pastry's first Chinese outpost.
The ground floor of the red-brick villa serves as a coffee and pastry shop for Black Star Pastry, which is famous for selling a Strawberry Watermelon Cake that was dubbed "Australia's most Instagrammed dessert" by the New York Times.
The cafe is Black Star Pastry's first in China
Shanghai-based Linehouse designed the space to evoke the feeling of being in space.
"The ground floor stirs up the incredible sensation of being aboard a spaceship," said the studio.
Linehouse designed the store to evoke a spaceship
The studio covered the walls of the cafe in stainless steel shelving that holds thousands of meteorites. The shelving extends across the ceiling to form an arched form that the studio described as "an exploration of gravity vs weightlessness".
A countertop display contains nine floating cakes
Continuing this theme, a countertop display features nine levitating cakes. Displayed in glass containers the revolving cakes are supported by magnetic levitation.
The phrase "we are all just stardust" can be found lining the edges of the communal tables, creating an effect of each letter dripping off the edge of the table by gravity.
Elsewhere on the ground floor there are retail areas stocked with coffee beans and apparel.
A terrazzo staircase leads guests ups...