Edgeware's first industry solution starts with a café

Parti by Edgeware is Edgeware's first industry solution, and the first store we are planning is a café in Hangzhou. It is not open yet. This post covers what we are designing and what we don't know.

A café is an entrance people already understand in any city. What we want to find out is whether one room can do more than serve coffee.

The plan is a single room that changes how it is used. In the design, connection points run across the floor. Counters and displays fit into them, and people take them out again by hand. We are designing for daily coffee, cocktail evenings, business receptions and team events, training courses, product launches and pop-ups. Moving from one use to another means changing the props.

Every item on that list is a design goal. None of it is open to the public yet, so read it as a plan.

Two things we can't answer. We have no changeover time to publish, and we won't estimate one. And we don't know whether people will want a room like this. That is a reason to build one and watch.

We use words carefully here. "Designed" means we are still designing, and "tested" needs a test behind it. The manifesto says Edgeware is working toward something, and this is what that looks like in practice.

If you are thinking about a room or a store like this, write to us at info@edgewarex.com.