Going through a journey of more than a thousand year, coffee is destined to be not just a cup of beverage. This book gives a glimpse of coffee's influence on customs, food, arts, philosophy, trade and finance through historical fragments. A thorough infographic of coffee timeline as well as the three waves of coffee display the steps coffee has taken from Ethiopia to the world. Based on the awareness of coffee's cultural properties, this book goes on with a large number of branding and interior works, showing how designers from around the world combine the cultural and practical side of coffee.