Asheville, North Carolina-based roasting company Rowan Coffee opened its second location last month, a classy and comfortable cafe that also now houses the roasting operation.
Inside a former automotive garage in West Asheville, the new digs benefit from vintage industrial windows that stretch nearly from the floor to the ceiling on three sides, offering loads of natural light.
The shop’s window frame grids, along with its exposed steel beams and brick walls, inspired Rowan Coffee Co-Founder Jessi Lee Cord to extend a crosshatch pattern with handmade green tile at the service counter, with white subway tile on an exterior kitchen wall.
“I fell in love with the building when I first moved to Asheville, and have long dreamed of it being used for food and bev,” Cord’s husband and Rowan Coffee Co-Owner Bow Smith told Daily Coffee News. “With the ample light, we decided to pursue a brighter, airier feel with design that was inspired by a conglomeration of oyster bars, European bistros and a ’50s diner.”…