Café interior · Kołobrzeg, Poland

Café Octopus

A rock-faced bar counter and three “old oak” columns with sea-creature reliefs — an octopus, a mermaid and a seahorse — for a café by the Baltic.

The bar counter

A massive block of slate-grey rock with diagonal strata, split by two old timber posts. Every crack and layer is modelled by hand; the colour is built up in glazes so the stone looks quarried, not painted.

Bar counter in artificial slate-grey rock with two timber-look posts

The counter from the side: deep diagonal strata and broken stone edges

Close-up of the rock texture: speckled granite grain and dark mineral streaks

The full length of the counter from the café floor

Old timber columns with reliefs

The concrete columns of the hall became weathered oak posts with a diagonal brace, cracks, knots and worn grain. Each post carries a hand-modelled sea creature: an octopus, a mermaid and a seahorse.

Octopus relief wrapping around the corner of an old timber column

Two columns and the diagonal brace, all in imitation old timber

The octopus column from the floor to the ceiling

Mermaid relief carved into the timber column

Mermaid relief: scales, long hair and weathered wood grain

Octopus and mermaid columns side by side

Mermaid column with its diagonal brace, octopus column behind

The whole interior

Rock, old timber and red brick together: the café reads as a harbour warehouse by the Baltic.

The café hall: bar counter on the left, relief columns on the right

The hall with the mermaid column and brace

Columns with octopus, mermaid and seahorse reliefs along the hall

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