Project Team
Design: Breathe Architecture
Suppliers
Floor / walls / ceiling: recycled tas oak flooring
Banquet seating: recycled leather jackets (in collaboration with Textiles Artist John Corbett)
Table tops: marmoleum
Timber screens: Laser cut Australian plantation ply, (in collaboration with Printmaker Rona Green)
Lighting: Party Light Strings with low energy lamps
Kitchen benchtops: burnished insitu concrete.
Tables & Chairs: powdercoated mild steel (designed by Breathe Architecture)
Nabiha is an introspective cafe, offering refuge to patrons from the barren suburban streetscape beyond its walls. Housed in a quirky little leftover space in some anonymous concrete office building, it is long and thin with an incredibly high ceiling.
The fitout slots warm materials into the concrete and glass tenancy. Blood red linoleum table tops are dotted through the space. Recycled timber floorboards wrap up the wall and across the ceiling. Strings of party lights provide a sense of carnival. Timber screens perforated with
An iconic banquet seat by textile artist John Corbett runs the length of the cafe. The banquet is made entirely from vintage 80’s leather jackets deconstructed and repurposed (pockets & zips included) and make for an opportunity to reminisce about days gone by.