Café Le Sens is a café, bakery, and wine bar in Seoul that wears its Parisian reference clearly — the striped awning, the brick facade with vines and flowering plants tumbling over the upper floors, the lettering on the glass that specifies the offer without over-marketing it. The interior follows the same logic: French café conventions interpreted with the attention to detail that characterises Seoul's most considered hospitality operations. The baking is the ground floor proposition; the wine programme extends the evening. The building's exterior is among the more composed café facades in the city, which has not required it to become a caricature of itself. The neighbourhood context — a side street with the scale and light of a European quarter — completes the atmosphere that the building establishes.
Mapo, Seoul, South Korea