{"id":261996,"date":"2025-08-18T17:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=canvasflow&p=261996"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:10:34","slug":"lumen-coffee-los-angeles-breland-harper","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/lumen-coffee-los-angeles-breland-harper\/","title":{"rendered":"Whimsy and Wonder Brew at Lumen Coffee\u2019s First L.A. Outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Breland-Harper and Nikolai and Simon Haas converted a 150-square-foot former trash enclosure in L.A.\u2019s Highland Park neighborhood into an outdoor caf\u00e9 for the U.S. debut of Lumen Coffee, founded in Armenia. The coffee shop is landscaped with native succulents, yarrow, and blue grama grass. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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August 18, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Annie Block\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Michael Wells<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Whimsy and Wonder Brew at Lumen Coffee\u2019s First L.A. Outpost<\/h1>\n\n\n

Good things really can come in small packages. But sometimes that package takes a lot<\/em> of vision. Fortunately for Los Angelenos, developer Redcar identified a quartet of creatives with boatloads of vision: Breland-Harper architects Michael Breland and Peter Harper and twin artists Nikolai and Simon Haas, who together transformed a tiny former garbage and water pump\u2013booster enclosure into a golden gem of a caf\u00e9 and debut U.S. location for Lumen Coffee, founded in Armenia in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIntention can produce the unexpected in a dusty corner of a parking lot,\u201d Breland reflects. \u201cIt\u2019s as if the building has been folded inside out,\u201d Harper adds, referring to their total interior gut job that encompassed installing a bathroom, sinks, and refrigeration, among other necessities for the establishment to operate, and such exterior improvements as steel window systems framed in bright-red mullions, Portuguese marble sills, and lush plantings (in addition to architecture and interiors, the firm specializes in landscape architecture). \u201cCool cats floating in coffee,\u201d is how the Haas brothers describe their contribution to the project: cladding the entire facade in thousands of tiles glazed with animated felinelike creatures, some donning L.A.-appropriate sunglasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Breland-Harper and Nikolai and Simon Haas converted a 150-square-foot former trash enclosure in L.A.\u2019s Highland Park neighborhood into an outdoor caf\u00e9 for the U.S. debut of Lumen Coffee. The coffee shop is landscaped with native succulents, yarrow, and blue grama grass. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The order counter composed of a Portuguese marble sill and painted steel window frames and mullions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Haas brothers\u2019 facade of 6,000 tiles were handmade at Cer\u00e1mica Suro in Guadalajara, Mexico, and glazed with their signature creatures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n