Alchemist Art Café at Miami Design District

Miami, FL – December 8, 2019 – Alchemist Art Café — a one week pop-up coffee shop from Miami Beach’s Alchemist label — opens today in Miami’s Design District, just in time for the inflow of Art Basel crowds. (The exact address is 172 NE 40th Street.) The café stands with a sort of buy-what-you-see premise: visitors may purchase a coffee (provided by La Colombe) between browsing the Design District’s boutiques, yet they may also buy the chair they’re sitting on. There’s a hook: much of the Alchemist Art Café’s merch has been designed in collaboration with the graffiti artist Futura. Everything from napkins and paper coffee cups to mid-century modern seating, produced by Modernica, feature Futura’s alien motifs in smoke-like, floating pen strokes. Naturally, the characters appear to be enjoying lattes. The artist will be on site this coming weekend for a signing of his monograph “Full Frame”.

David & Elvi Lima