Barcelona’s new Jaç Hello-Fi Café reimagines the Japanese listening bar

Jaç Hello-Fi Café invitations company to decelerate and hear. Designed by Isern Serra Studio, the Barcelona opening invitations guests right into a Mediterranean interpretation of Japan’s revered jazz kissa. The identify Jaç, which nods to jazz and recollects the Japanese listening bar, means ‘to recline, relaxation, and let go’ in Catalan. The challenge combines espresso and acoustics to create a setting the place time feels recalibrated.

Jaç Hello-Fi Café, Barcelona

The 95 sq m inside is organized as a sequence of tactile environments. On the entrance, a lounge introduces the palette with a concrete couch softened by beige cushions, a sculptural Akari E lamp by Isamu Noguchi for Vitra, and customized walnut tables completed with lacquered beige tops. Stools by Noo.ma and an art work by Chidy Wayne offset the impartial microcement shell with distinction and color.

The bar features as each counter and acoustic instrument. Crafted from a single monolithic slab of walnut by Fusteria Vidal, it doubles as a speaker cupboard, with shelving for vinyl, a baked-goods show, and customized Bloom Island audio system carved from the identical timber. The uninterrupted grain runs throughout cabinetry and speaker fronts, binding structure and sound into one steady floor.

On the centre, a stainless-steel communal desk designed by Serra introduces a brutalist edge softened by the nice and cozy tones of surrounding wood and metallic stools. Its reflective floor catches the sunshine of Antoni Arola’s Lámina pendant for Santa & Cole, which hovers with sculptural precision above, amplifying the desk’s position inside the plan.

The rear alcove delivers probably the most immersive encounter; produced by Fusteria Vidal, the walnut set up curves throughout the wall and ceiling to type a semi-enclosed listening zone. A cylindrical column divides cabinets stuffed with vinyl, whereas chrome steel Bloom Island audio system challenge finely tuned sound.

Cushions and low tables lengthen the invitation to linger, illuminated by the Disco wall lamp by Jordi Miralbell and Mariona Reventós. Smaller gestures reinforce the intimacy, together with a four-seat window area of interest, discreetly built-in bogs, and a façade in iroko wooden stained to match the walnut inside.