Former Starbucks designer on what makes a "third place" feel like home

Suppose you wanted to design a home away from home. What would you put in? What would you leave out? What kind of seating would you have? (Soft? Hard? Low? High?) What kind of tables big working slabs or intimate little two-tops?

A good third place may seem casually homey, but its design is the end result of a million tiny decisions. This week on HOME: Stories From L.A., its a conversation with Kambiz Hemati, who oversaw store design at Starbucks for two years and now owns Love Coffee Bar in Santa Monica, where he gets to think hard and think small about what makes a place feel like home.

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