Today’s guest post is written by Yi – Creative freelancer and lover of photography, travel, sneakers & street art.
When a new cafe opens in Taipei, it quickly gets discovered by young hipsters and, before you know it, the cafe will be occupied by MacBooks and smartphones. And the newly opened Miracle Art Space cafe is no different. It’s the perfect breeding ground for hipsters.
As the name partially suggests, Miracle Art Space combines cafe and art together in an open space. The three-story cafe exudes style with its minimalistic design of sharp lines and clean, white color palette.
The large, floor-to-ceiling windows make it an ideal working environment with plenty of natural lighting. It’s also a nice place to procrastinate and watch the pedestrians below as you sip your latte, tea or freshly squeezed fruit juice. You can chill out to the ambient music of jazz and soft vocals.
Miracle Art Space is a great spot to get those creative juices flowing. It has a comprehensive selection of design magazines, books and other nice things to look at.
When I was there, I was lucky enough to have met with the owner, Christine. She not only runs the place, but creates the sculpture-like jewelery that’s on display as you enter the cafe. She’s been making jewelery for over 15 years and works with a team of designers.
One of Christine’s motivations for opening the cafe was to have a unique way of displaying her jewelery designs. She wanted the cafe to be like an open gallery, minus the coldness and intimidation. She hopes to ultimately blur the lines between the two by giving opportunities to budding artists to display their various works of art around the cafe.
Christine’s European flair comes across in the food, with a wide selection of hors d’oeuvres ranging from salmon with cream cheese to honeydew wrapped in prosciutto. If all that’s too conceptual for you, then there’s always the beef club sandwich — which is delicious.
Canadian expat Carrie Kellenberger has kept a home base with her husband in Asia since 2003. A prolific traveler, Carrie has funded her travels primarily as a writer, editor, travel blogger and photographer, but she has also worked as an educator, voice over artist, model and nightclub singer. She draws upon her 15+ years of travel experience to write about travel-related issues and the countries she has visited on her award-winning web site, My Several Worlds.
Her photography and travel articles have appeared in both print and online publications around the world, including Travel and Leisure Asia, Unearthing Asia and Hip Compass Escapes.
