Café Uchronia

Invited by the Maison&Objet show for its January 2022 edition, the Uchronia collective imagined a 200m2 café, both a fanciful world and a tribute to the mythical Parisian terrace.

An integral part of French society, the café unites the street with the interior, and its terrace is the setting for a room where people observe each other, eat and have fun. A Parisian life summed up in a few square metres and recreated in the centre of the Maison&Objet show. Leaving the aisles and entering the undulating colours, in this space where time dances freely, the visitor becomes a café customer, a flâneur and carefree soul.

Without sponsors, friends first

A group of friends is an elementary component of a Parisian terrace and is symbolised in one of the choices made by Uchronia and Maison&Objet. No sponsors, friends first, and being surrounded by those whose work you admire, that together, can create this new kind of lounge café. Among them, the young Chef Julien Sebbag (Forest, Tortuga and Créatures) is developing dishes inspired by the different roasting profiles of coffee for this 90-cover space. An expert in the field with its four artisanal blends, Café Nuances, whose boutique was recently designed by Uchronia, will be in charge of the coffee offer.

Moon and sunrises: suspended time

From the large corner bar where the sun and the moon rise simultaneously, large waves of colour emanate, like rays, defining the spaces, uses and different moments of the day. True to its habit and name, Uchronia questions and plays with time. If one often loses the notion of temporality in the great hall of the show, the collective sets the clocks back - to better disrupt them - and leads us into a universe that is both rhythmic and timeless, precise and whimsical.

Bistro sets for morning coffee, wave tables for lunch and large stepped seats for relaxing with friends at the end of the day - and remembering the teenage days when we hung out in groups -, the different coloured zones of Uch