The rustic materiality of this Melbourne cafe designed by architecture studio Ritz & Ghougassian is meant to reflect the fuss-free dishes on the menu.
Prior is situated along the lively high street of Melbourne's Thornbury suburb, taking over a building that once served as an industrial printing house.
Prior cafe occupies a building that was once a printing house
When Ritz & Ghougassian were brought on board to develop the interiors of the cafe, it stripped back any decorative elements left behind from the old fit-out, only preserving the brick walls and eight-metre-high truss ceiling. "It was clear to us that we had to honour the original space by proposing an intervention that sat apart from the original framework of the building," the studio's co-founder, Jean-Paul Ghougassian, told Dezeen.
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