So, with all this art to enjoy, why add food into the mix? Yeah, that’s kind of the bane of Sonberg’s existence. I think those factors are the subconscious draw for visitors to Café Archetypus.” “They bring their friends, and they keep coming because they like the ambiance, the ability to have private spaces, to have an intimate experience. “For most people, it’s a novelty,” Sonberg said. The Enigma Room, or ‘The Caves’ as visitors call it, is a popular section of the café.
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Safe to say this place is full of surprises.
The neighboring Empress Room evokes its own whirlwind of emotions with a wispy, blue-and-white ceiling, overflowing greenery and a naked female figure resting above unsuspecting patrons. Guests canoodle in their own caves, meticulously scanning every detail of this enigmatic space fittingly called the Enigma Room - an homage to the café’s original name. In an instant, the force of imaginative power becomes fully unleashed into a fantastical world of whimsy, where sensual figures seem to come and go out of cavernous walls illuminated only by candles.
Upon passing that godlike head in the front room, one can see many of the projections Sonberg speaks of. “The meaning they find comes from within rather than the forms saying it to you.” “It was meant to be a three-dimensional Rorschach, where the images they project from the different forms are just that - only projections,” Sonberg explained. When New York Studio art school alum Sonberg first created his Archetypus environment back in the 1970s, he wanted it to evoke a “contemplative quality” within each person, allowing their own perceptions to shape the experience. If you still feel puzzled, you’re not alone: That’s kind of the point of this one-of-a-kind café. But wait … back up … what are those tables doing there?ĭon’t be confused: Have a seat, and a waiter will be right with you. Look closer at the plaster etchings, and you’ll be led to a godlike face overhead acting as the gatekeeper to the depths of this underworld. Opening the front door reveals a sea of amorphous swirls and shapes in the Atrium, which mingle with greenery in a display that looks like the Garden of Eden has been propelled into the Paleolithic era. He should know: The 73-year-old artist is, literally, the mastermind behind the surrealist sculpture work that’s been dubbed “anything but typical,” “avant-garde” and a “garden of earthly delights.” And it doesn’t take long to see those descriptions come to life in Sonberg’s dreamscape. Stepping through the doors of 266 Old River Road in Edgewater is like stepping into, as Warren Sonberg describes, “an interior fantasy that somebody might have inside their mind.” Posted on Maby Hunter Hulbert - Just In Jersey café serves inventive fare in an underworldly fantasy
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