Tinderbox, Glasgow—New Site

After years of speculation about whether there would ever be more than two Tinderboxes, we have now been commissioned to design a new Tinderbox in Glasgow. Our client, Matthew Algie is the UK’s leading (and best) independent coffee roaster. We designed the first Tinderbox in 1998 on Byres Road, Glasgow, as an outlet to showcase Matthew Algie coffee and a laboratory to test their products. There was a retail area selling specialist coffee kit, music and other suitable stuff. It quickly became a local landmark, and we went on to design a North London version in Islington in 2001. It was another big hit with the locals but with much greater take-out business.

The next Tinderbox will move things into a new generation of coffee. Interestingly it is only a couple of hundred yards from the original site of the Ingram Street Tearooms that made Miss Cranston famous.