Dominika Onofrejová has been fulfilling her dream since 2024 in a minimalist but cozy interior designed by Michal Letko’s MENO! architectural studio.
The interior of Dominika’s café reflects the history of the space, where her family had been producing office furniture since 1994. A refurbished lathe has been preserved in a place of honor in the space even today. Dominika also needed functional furnishings and quality materials that would stand the test of time and hold up under the constant flow of eager customers.
Engineered stone from Technistone was the ideal material for the café’s main feature — an attractive sales counter that is the part of the café with the greatest need for utility. Technistone’s Noble Concrete Grey decor was chosen for its color, which visually pulls the colors of the various interior elements of the café together. The original idea of using black stone had to be abandoned because of the large size of the bar — Noble Concrete Grey brings lightness and harmony to the space.
“Our heart belongs to the kolaches that we display behind the glass. I didn’t want the bar to be too heavy and oppressive. The choice of grey was intuitive — it goes well with the black accents, wooden elements, and light pink accessories in the café, and adds a bit of elegance,” says Dominika.
TechniStone was chosen for its look, but also for its technical qualities — it is highly resistant to staining, scratches, and everyday use. In an area subject to the constant movement of customers, children, and employees, its ease of maintenance and long useful life was decisive.
“Something is always getting spilled, kids are leaning on the bar and kicking it — and still it looks like new. TechniStone is truly an indestructible material,” adds Dominika with a smile.
The café is an example of how to combine a story, functionality, and aesthetics into one attractive package. Its interior relies on simple shapes, a tightly defined palette of colors, and a sensitive combination of materials.
A laminated wood ceiling, custom-made furniture, rustic floor tiles, Czech-made seating, plastered walls with a concrete surface effect, and precision carpentry and stonework by Czech craftsmen — everything together creates a space that is welcoming, unique, and authentic.
Technistone fits right into that mosaic — as a stable, technically advanced, and aesthetic material that enhances the overall harmony of the design. It’s subtle and unobtrusive in this application. It doesn’t overwhelm the other materials and confidently holds the entire space together.
The Sial company, which has worked for many years with kitchen studios and leading architects focused on interior design, completed this project in three weeks, using six slabs of Noble Concrete Grey. The actual installation of the sales counter took only about five hours.
