Dan Brunn Architecture has completed a coffee shop for Sasquatch in New York City’s Nolita neighborhood. As the coffee brand’s second location beyond its Los Angeles base, the cafe is designed to be a “forest of green in an urban environment of grays.”

Externally, the cafe is defined by the ironwork of black window frames “reminiscent of an older New York.” As customers step inside, custom wallpaper by Flavor Paper and the artist James Jean seeks to create a calm landscape, with Jean re-interpreting the idea of the sasquatch creature’s forest through oversized vines, leaves, and flowers.

The interior contains no direct lights, and instead sees every surface glow as a result of light “peering through hanging plants.” Hints of light also illuminate the edge of the white Corian wall above the barista bar. Behind the wall and counter, a fully stainless steel kitchen creates a clear distinction between the front-of-house and back-of-house spaces.

The curving custom terrazzo counter and gold-angled ceiling further guide customers through the space towards the seating area. The counter’s terrazzo strikes a deep green with gold and blue aggregates hinting at the mosaic tiles embedded within the floor and ceiling, while the gold inverted pitch ceiling strikes a sharp, floating form, holding between it a stretch fabric ceiling with LED lights to create a soft glow across the interior.

Along the seating side of the coffee shop, the surfaces transition from the green terrazzo counter to a walnut counter and custom bench. Intended to represent forest tree trunks and branches, the material palette “ground the customer back from the green canopy of the space, back to the reason they came in the first place – the Coffee for Sasquatch experience.” Along the storefront, a terrazzo counter with walnut stools sits below windows that open up to the street.

Adorning the wall of the seating area rests a 10-foot-tall Sasquatch form made of half-inch thick custom-cut acrylic and finished in the same gold as the ceiling. The creature’s eyes peer out between the hanging plants “as if she was checking in and protecting those eating and drinking within her home.” Meanwhile, across the seating area, curved wood chairs in dark green designed and manufactured by the Swedish company HEM further extend the forest theme.

News of the scheme’s completion comes weeks after Archinect marked International Coffee Day. For further inspiration on coffee shop interiors, you can enjoy our roundup of over a dozen cafes and brewing spaces from around the world.