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People sit at wooden tables outside "The Espresso Ledge" cafe, which has a colorful, hand-drawn mural featuring suns, moons, and waves.

People sit at wooden tables outside "The Espresso Ledge" cafe, which has a colorful, hand-drawn mural featuring suns, moons, and waves.

A scene inside or outside a cafe called "The Espresso Ledge" during the 90s. The cafe's design and decor perfectly exemplifies the global village coffeehouse aesthetic. This means, from Wikipedia, "The overarching themes include tribalism, spiritualism, environmentalism, and a sense of global unity. Many pieces also feature influence from artists such as Picasso and Chagall. Common motifs of GVC design include indigenous or tribal imagery and natural imagery such as suns, moons, waves, and trees and "aroma swirls". The art style is defined by simplified line art and a "hand-drawn", analog look." Mehr sehen