Another masterpiece by award-winning local design studio Mizzi Studio has just been unveiled at Hyde Park, as part of a wider project to transform 10 sites across London’s Royal Parks with individually crafted, free-standing architectural structures, in partnership with artisan Italian café operators, Colicci.

The new coffee house is located between the Serpentine Galleries, with views across the Serpentine Lake and out towards the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, and comprises an open, semi-transparent glass pavilion evoking the architecture traditionally seen in Japanese tea-houses.

Its undulating canopy, designed to respond to the movement of the lake, was hand-painted using specialist techniques, and is intricately textured on the underside with snakeskin-inspired, coffer-like dimples. Tapered towards its edges, it cantilevers over the glass structure below to create extensive open-air seating, with capacity for 60 people to sit under and around it, within the parkland.

Following the opening of the Serpentine Coffee House, the transformation of the final three sites will be completed later in the autumn, including the flagship brass Horseshoe kiosk in St James’s Park, with Buckingham Palace as its backdrop, and two steam-bent oak structures in St James’s Park and Hyde Park.

Jonathan Mizzi, Founder of Mizzi Studio said, “it is an honour to have been entrusted with creating a new landmark for such a unique and beautiful setting within The Royal Parks.”

Rob Colicci, Director of Colicci said, "We have been working with Jonathan and the Mizzi Studio team for seven years and are immensely proud of what we have created in that time. Their creativity and ambition to pioneer such unique builds has pushed our brand forward and given us a truly unique selling point in a crowded market. The Serpentine Coffee House has set a new precedent for the experience of buying your coffee."