Although the book was enjoyable to thumb through -- and some of the designs really ARE spectacular! -- I wish I hadn't actually purchased it. I'm not a design student, just someone fantasizing about owning a cafe someday and wondering what it might look like. I bought this book for inspiration, but ended up feeling like the ideas were mostly out of reach. Sure, I could hire a team of designers (and who knows, I may even do that someday), but I wanted to see cafe interiors and exteriors that regular people can create -- places that welcome the public, that are fresh or funny or cozy, etc., but not necessarily so flashy they should win awards.
This is not to steer readers away from the book. But future cafe owners may not need anything quite this dramatic to get their creative visions flowing.
Also, I only gave it 2 stars because I wanted considerably more text; the book consisted of almost nothing but pictures. In all, it seemed to me more like something that would be assigned in a school of design than a book for potential cafe owners or the general public.