“Cremer is built on intention, every detail is considered,” begins Cremer’s help wanted listing. The new London café, a combination bakery/breakfast and lunch canteen, is fittingly located next to Hoxton’s Museum of the Home, an institution devoted to “revealing and rethinking the ways we live in order to live better together.” Cremer seems to have come up with some answers.
Designed by Oscar Piccolo in collaboration with modernist design dealer/curator Gennaro Leone of Spazio Leone, the restaurant— “like the home of someone with impeccable taste,” as one critic put it—features commissioned work from a coterie of rising international design stars, most of whom are foreign creatives in London. (Piccolo and Leone are both Italian and Cremer owner Ramzi Abou Chalach is French.)
There are communal tables; desk-like spaces to sit, eat, and work; a library with a beckoning daybed; plus granny chic objects and striped and checked fabrics mixed in. It’s a winning combination.
Photography by Callum Su, courtesy of Oscar Piccolo and Cremer.
Cremer is at 1 Geffrye Street in Hoxton. It’s open 8 to 6, Monday through Friday, and 9 to 6 on weekends.
Turn to the Remodelista Design Travel archive for more must-see places and design ideas, including:
- Bread Shop in Santa Fe
- A Poetic Tea Room in Taipei
- Rosetta: Mexico City’s Most Beautiful Restaurant?
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