citylikeyou — GentleMaker — Shanghai by Lyla Lee

Shanghai / Cafe

Simply the best meet-up cafe in the hood, celebrating a gentler life through good coffee and good reads. GentleMaker also features concierge service and retail merchants for personal leather goods

Address
GentleMaker, Hua Shan Lu, Shanghai, China

Curator

Current city: Shanghai

Other cities: Beijing Tokyo Melbourne

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Born and raised in Beijing, Lyla is a creative content curator currently based in Shanghai. Working with fashion and lifestyle partners on content creation, community experience, editorial design and exhibition curation under Iroha, her studio, she is completing her Master of Design Futures at RMIT, Melbourne. A dog person who lives with a rescue cat, Lyla is a coffee enthusiast, occasional illustrator, barista and podcaster and a passionate community builder engaged with Shelf, her own initiative to promote independent publications through community shops in Shanghai.

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