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What we hear, watch and learn also shapes the Club.

Music, film, design and creative references that connect with how we understand space, community and everyday work.

These are not conventional reviews. They are clues to why something feels connected to Baristas Club.

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14 published stories

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Music

Listening, movement and ways of understanding the world.

Club CultureMusic

Nu Genea: Naples Under the Moon

The Mediterranean understood as a meeting place.

Disco, funk, boogie and many shores gathered into a Neapolitan sound full of light, detail and movement.

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Parcels: From Byron Bay to Berlin

Five musicians truly listening to one another.

Electro-pop, disco-soul and ensemble precision with a clean, bright and infectious groove.

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Khruangbin’s Warm Journey

Music that changes the atmosphere without taking it over.

Instrumental funk, soul, dub and global psychedelia for listening without watching the clock.

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Paris with L’Impératrice

Relaxed elegance that always ends up inviting you to dance.

Elastic bass lines, bright synthesizers and French pop with rhythm, detail and playfulness.

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Film and Series

Films and series that help us look more closely at everyday life.

Club CultureFilm and Series

Perfect Days: The Beauty of Small Rituals

A film that teaches us to pay attention again to what we do every day.

Wim Wenders finds music, dignity and meaning in a life shaped by gestures repeated with intention.

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Club CultureFilm and Series

Chef: Starting Again by Doing What Matters

Craft, freedom and a scale at which you recognise yourself again.

Jon Favreau’s film connects food, identity, family and the courage to rebuild a project from what matters most.

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Club CultureFilm and Series

The Holdovers: Learning to See One Another

Three people become more than the roles they occupy.

Alexander Payne brings three isolated people together and finds a small community where there had only been obligation.

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Club CultureFilm and Series

The Intern: Experience, Trust and Balance

Growth does not mean having every answer.

Nancy Meyers’s film looks at intergenerational work and the need to sustain ambition without losing the life around it.

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Club CultureFilm and Series

Ted Lasso: Believing in People

Leadership begins not with knowing more, but with seeing better.

Between the lines, the series is about trust, listening, vulnerability and a kind of growth that leaves nobody behind.

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Design and Craft

Small decisions, steady work and an identity under construction.

Minimal composition of geometric forms aligning to create a balanced whole.

Club CultureDesign and Craft

You Can Tell When Something Is Made Well

Design, craft and the work that may not be visible but can always be felt.

A space, a drink or a T-shirt does not depend on one grand gesture, but on many small decisions learning to live together.

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Team members' hands taste, plate and sketch ideas for a new autumn and winter menu.

Club CultureDesign and Craft

How We Create a New Menu at Baristas Club

Ideas, testing, teamwork and decisions until a dish finds its place

A new menu does not begin when it is printed: it grows through observation, imagination, testing and balance between identity, team, produce and everyday life.

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People and Work

Trust, shared growth and the balances that sustain the Club.

Three different forms grow connected and supported by the same curved base.

Club CulturePeople and Work

Growing Together

The company we want to build and the people who give it meaning.

Baristas began with a dream, but it has only been able to grow through trust, shared work and the willingness to find human balance.

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A mustard-coloured point branches through one line into three connected circles, like an idea becoming a community.

Club CulturePeople and Work

From an Idea to a Community

The growth of Baristas Club, inside and out.

A natural journey from the first intuition to a project that now brings together a space, a team, a brand, education, social media, an app and a community.

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