“…A coffee-house exists to sell coffee, but the coffee-house cannot be reduced to this retail function. …a simple commodity rewrote the experience of metropolitan life. Yet the coffee-house does have a vital relationship with coffee, which remains its governing symbol, lending it connotations of alertness, sobriety and volubility. These convivial and conversational associations grant the coffee-house a unique place in urban life and manners, in sharp contrast to its alcoholic competitors.”

from: The Coffee House, A Cultural History.  by: Markman Ellis. c.2004.        Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group Ltd., London.

I think about how coffee-houses are presented today and how they influence and interact with the way we exist.