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Santana Coffee Bar, Ruse

A small coffee bar in Ruse, redrawn with a tight budget.

Santana is a compact coffee bar in Ruse. The redesign keeps the existing volume and the bar’s position, and changes the character: mustard plaster, timber slats, a floral mural and a pastel chequered floor in place of the former pink-and-blue ceiling and dark banquettes.

Banquettes and round tables organise a narrow dining room; a ribbed bar in dusty pink holds service, bottles and the familiar coolers. Colour and a few chosen surfaces do the work of a limited budget.

Location
Ruse
Type
Coffee bar
Designer
Irena Rumen
Santana’s dining room toward a floral mural, yellow banquettes and a pastel chequered floor.
The room toward the bar with a ribbed pink front, timber columns and yellow stools.

Dining room

Banquettes, mural, a floor of colour.

The dining room is a single axis toward a floral mural and a channel-tufted yellow banquette. Quilted chairs in moss and rose, globe pendants and plants on timber plinths keep a small room occupied and warm without adding construction.

The dining room from the window toward the mural, banquettes and quilted chairs.
A yellow banquette, quilted chairs and a floral mural behind a timber slat screen.
The dining room toward an opening with Coca-Cola coolers and round tables by the windows.
The bar with a ribbed pink front, yellow stools and Coca-Cola coolers.

Bar

The counter, kept, and recast.

The bar stays where it was. A ribbed dusty-pink front, a dark worktop and a hanging glass rack recast the service line; timber-clad columns and a TV wall in a dark fan pattern separate bar from seating without building new rooms.

The dining room toward the bar, television and coolers, past a timber column.
Tables beside the bar and a wall in a dark fan pattern.

Photographs

The bar, before and after.

The opening is edited. Everything else lives here, grouped by dining room, bar and the room before the redesign, click any image to view it fully.

Dining room

Dining room toward the mural, banquettes and chequered floor.
Dining room with a slatted screen to the right and the mural at the end.
Dining room from the window toward the mural.
Banquette and chairs toward the mural.
Dining room toward the opening and the windows.

Bar

The room toward the bar and timber columns.
The bar with stools and coolers.
Tables toward the bar and coolers.
Tables beside the bar and the fan-pattern wall.

Before

The dining room before: a pink-and-blue ceiling, dark banquettes and a diamond floor.
The room before, toward the bar: coloured ceilings and round tables.
The bar before: a timber counter, Coca-Cola crates and a terracotta floor.
The dining room before, looking through to the opening and drink crates.