Alchemist Art Cafe Opening Cocktail at Miami Design District

Photography by Steve Blaine, World Red Eye on December 3rd, 2019 in Art Basel Miami Beach 2019, Arts, Fashion, Lifestyle, Miami Design District

Miami, FL – December 3, 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, née Leonard McGurr. 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.