Platform is a GOOD thing. A new youth centre in the old Hornsey Road Baths building (more on that in later posts) it has a theatre, a performance space, media suites, a recording studio, dance studio and a cafe all for and by young people. It even has a fabulous neon sign by Morag Myerscough that says 'I am the creation of your imagination'. But good things can be worthy. I worried that it would be well meaning, a little dowdy and melancholy. I also worried that it would be full of intimidatingly cool young people and I'd feel old and dowdy.
Anyway, I was wrong on all counts. It's a beautiful space.There are more neon signs inside:
and even the stools. lights and banisters have been turned into art:
Anyway, I was wrong on all counts. It's a beautiful space.There are more neon signs inside:
There's enough mid century modern furniture to make an Apartment Therapy post
It was busy enough to feel lively, but not too crowded, the people were likeably cool and my coffee was good.
Where: 260 Hornsey Road - immediately on the left as you go into the courtyard.
When: Mondays 9.30am - 4pm; Tuesday s9.30am - 4pm; Wednesdays 9.30am - 8pm; Thursdays 9.30am - 8pm; Fridays 9.30am - 8pm; Saturdays 10am - 8pm; Sundays Closed
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