Goodness Gracious cafe expands to a new location with an industrial edge

Goodness Gracious owner, Greg Cornes opens the door to his new industrial-fitout inside a heritage building in Parnell, Auckland

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Goodness Gracious cafe expands to a new location with an industrial edge

Your first Goodness Gracious cafe, which is in Eden Terrace, Auckland, is a slip of a thing and this isn’t much bigger. Coincidence or planning?
This is planned – a small space is easier to manage, and the design has to be so much more considered. For me, it helps a lot when considering the overall aesthetic.

Tell us a bit about the building and the area.
We’re in Auckland’s oldest suburb, in what I understand to be an old paper mill. It’s a character redevelopment by Krukziener Properties with architect John Wardle. The original drawings date the building as old as 1865.

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You worked with Powersurge on this fitout and you’ve collaborated with them before.
We met when I was looking into stools for the first cafe so it was a natural decision to work with them again. A big part of this design was to speak a common language with the original cafe.

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Where did you start with the design?
The steel and glass came about from the first fit-out. Sam Kenny, a good friend and designer, and I were looking for partition options with the smallest footprint to separate the kitchen from front-of-house in order to maximise the space. Like everything in our spaces, the design aesthetic has generally stemmed from a place of practicality. The partition is perfect because of the small footprint, the industrial look and the era of the buildings in which our stores are located.

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Photography by: Sam Hartnett.

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