Artefact on Roscoe Street in Liverpool is not your average café. While it serves coffee and attracts freelancers, everything inside – from the couches to the tables – is for sale. Owners James Symonds, Jane Allen, and Alex Allen initially struggled with their vintage furniture stock but found a unique solution: turning their space into a shop disguised as a café.
Located in a former stable, Artefact on Roscoe Street is not what it seems when you first walk in. On your left is a barista serving coffee.
In the words of James Symonds, who runs Artefact along with his partner Jane Allen and her son Alex Allen, “everything is up for sale”. James, 50, from Aigburth, told me: “I think some people don't get it. They come in and think, oh, you must have just meant some of the bits are for sale. James, Jane and Alex, 25, had been selling vintage furniture for years but were finding it increasingly hard to stock their stock at pop-up shops and shows, with their findings filling up two storage lockers and their family home.
James said: “Now we're doing events - not something we ever really thought that we'd be doing to start with, but we're very much enjoying it because a lot of young performers are coming through here. “With those sorts of words, we're very, very happy because we like to feel that this is a little bit of us. This is basically home from home for us. The fact that people vibe with that and people are comfortable with that, it's fantastic.
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