Lazy Jennie

Spatial

Lazy Jennie is a café designed around the spirit of its brand character, translating everyday emotional states such as hunger, waiting, and rest into a spatial experience. Located within a preserved Dutch Colonial house in Bandung, the project adopts an adaptive reuse approach that balances historical character with contemporary material expression. The interior is organised around a central bar, emphasising food as the heart of the experience, while references to Southeast Asian kopitiams inform material choices, including the reuse of reclaimed bottle crates. Through subtle gestures and material restraint, the design reinterprets familiar rituals into a space that encourages pause, sharing, and quiet indulgence.

Lazy Jennie is a café born from the spirit of its brand character, Jennie—a sweet, laid-back soul with a touch of charming chaos. The design draws from this sensibility, translating emotional states such as hunger, waiting, and rest into spatial experiences. These ideas informed an interior shaped around softness, slowness, and moments of pause within the everyday ritual of dining.

Translating these nuances into space, the design explored how the act of serving and meeting the food became part of the overall experience. The layout emphasised the bar as the centre, symbolising the centrality of food within the brand character world. The design also drew from the Peranakan roots of its introduced menu, referencing the everyday culture of Southeast Asian kopitiams. This was expressed through the use of reclaimed bottle crates on the ceiling as a familiar nod to the traditional kopitiams, embedding material reuse directly into the project’s narrative. The pixelated centre of the table becomes a playful symbol of food as the heart of sharing, articulated through its modular composition and tactile surface. Meanwhile, the kitchen-facing windows are shaped to pull the eye toward the choreography of making and serving, turning everyday food rituals into a quiet spectacle of indulgence.

Designed within a preserved Dutch Colonial house located in Bandung, the project bridged its historical character with contemporary material expression. Patterned tiles, stainless steel, and tactile surfaces introduced the new narrative while honouring the building’s historic presence, creating a quiet dialogue between past and present. The use of subway tiles framed the original colonial windows like a painting, transforming what was once ordinary into the visual heart of the space. The crate ceiling features were also arranged to cast shadows that reinterpret the geometry of the existing ceiling. Outside, an existing tree was deliberately preserved as part of the site’s natural heritage, grounding the outdoor experience and reinforcing a design approach that prioritises working with existing conditions rather than replacing them.

Lazy Jennie

Year:
2026
Location:
Bandung, Indonesia
Photography:
Dani Effendi
Matter of Something

Services:
Interior Design
Furniture Design