Airship at Ledger
The Airship Coffee café inside Ledger Bentonville brings a vibrant local coffee culture into one of the city’s most distinctive buildings. The space reflects Airship’s ethos of quality, community, and connection while aligning with Ledger’s architectural vision of openness and innovation.
The café occupies a prominent location along Ledger’s glass façade and breezeway, where floor-to-ceiling windows flood the space with natural light. At its heart stands a monumental tree surrounded by lush plantings, anchoring the café as a natural gathering point. A sweeping, curved bar clad in vertical reclaimed wood fins defines the service area, creating a fluid transition between customer seating and the operational core.
Seating areas range from communal tables to intimate café rounds, offering flexibility for casual meetings, remote work, or simply enjoying a cup of coffee. Polished concrete floors, reflective ceiling treatments, and clean-lined furnishings underscore a contemporary aesthetic, while soft greenery and natural textures temper the scale and bring warmth to the interior.
The café is designed as both a destination and a passage, a place where cyclists, professionals, and visitors can converge, recharge, and experience Airship’s craft coffee in an architecturally distinctive setting. With its integration of landscape elements, seamless flow, and locally rooted identity, Airship at Ledger embodies a model of hospitality-driven workplace amenities. The result is a welcoming, light-filled café that strengthens the connection between Ledger, the downtown community, and the region’s growing culture of creativity and collaboration.
Location: Bentonville, Arkansas
Program: Retail
Area: 1,500 sf
Status: Completed 2022
Client: Center City LLC
Collaborators: HFA, Nabholz Millshop, Naturemaker, Botanic Plant Co
Photography: Halkin Mason, Rebecca Adkisson, Liza G