Café Littéraire with Joanie Osburn - September 5th 2025

☕✨ Café Littéraire at AFSF – Sept 5 ✨📚

Join us for a special morning at the Alliance Française de San Francisco with award-winning artist, designer, and photographer Joanie Osburn, as she presents her stunning book:

Café Society: Time Suspended, the Cafés & Bistros of Paris

📅 Friday, September 5
📍 AFSF – Alliance Française de San Francisco
🕖 Time: 10am

Discover the spirit and soul of Parisian cafés through Joanie's lens — where history, art, and everyday life blend in a dance of waiters, clinking glasses, and warm conversations. A visual and cultural love letter to the Paris café as a symbol of timeless joie de vivre.

Meet the author
📖 Book presentation & discussion with coffee and French pastries

Open to all lovers of art, photography, Paris, and café culture!

About the author

Joanie Osburn is an award-winning interior designer, artist, and photographer based in San Francisco, CA. After achieving a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley, studied painting and photography in Paris and Cal Arts in Los Angeles, followed by interior design and architecture at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco—receiving a degree in Interior Design and Color. Her art and photography have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the U.S., and her interior design projects have been featured in magazines, newspapers, and books, including the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, House Beautiful, Traditional Home, and Sunset Magazine.
Along with her husband and partner, she has had an architecture/design studio and showroom at the San Francisco Design Center, a Parisian café and retail store in Napa, and a webstore--each purveying French café furniture, furnishings, and antiques. Osburn’s first-hand experience living and working in Paris and meeting with French vendors and factory owners—the people who follow the tradition of hand-crafted bistro furniture and furnishings—gives insight into the people and products behind the look and feel and the life of the Parisian café. Having lived and studied in Paris and traveling there each year for many decades, her passion for all aspects of French art de vivre while exploring the latest trends is ongoing.