Stumptown, Greenwich Village, NYC

Interior designer and my good pal Andee Hess was in town this week from Portland, Oregon. We met three years ago on an IIDA Oregon design panel and instantly became besties. (Hopefully she agrees.) Lucky for me, she's been coming to New York a lot lately because she's designing NYC's first stand-alone Stumptown Coffee Roasters cafe on West 8th @ MacDougal (there's one inside the Ace Hotel New York and several in Portland, where it launched in 1999). It's still under construction, but she gave me a private tour the other night. She only allowed me to take this one photo. But I can say that when it opens in early May, you'll want to look up - the ceiling treatments are super cool.

A sneak peek into Stumptown cafe at 30 W. 8th St.