A place in their own image
Kaylan Holst-Roness and Rayan Bastreghi opened 995 in the summer of 2025, after nearly two years of planning it. They are longstanding friends, each with their own creative side: Kaylan's takes in years of DJing, designing and making clothes, and surfing. The idea was simple — one place for all of it, instead of a café for the coffee, a shop for the clothes and a gallery for the art. The name is a nod to the generation born in the 1990s, raised half analogue and half digital. Say it nine nine five. They call it a creative platform rather than a café or a wine bar: somewhere that reflects the two of them, and somewhere people gather.
From morning to evening
They opened something Geneva still has little of. The cafés around them shut at 17:00; the bars opened at 18:00. 995 covers both ends. The morning coffee is specialty, from the Lausanne roaster Expe; the matcha is Kyoto, sourced with Tea Repertoire in Carouge. In the evening it is natural wine, including an orange made in Geneva, alongside cocktails and local beer. Brunch, made in house, runs Saturday and Sunday.
Their lives in this place
Almost everything in the room comes from their own lives. Friends in Lisbon made the cups. The clothes are theirs — 995 Apparel, screen-printed by Baxter — and the collections take their colours from where the two of them have travelled, Morocco above all. Pieces by Geneva designers hang on the same rails.
Downstairs, Geneva on a disposable camera
The basement belongs to local artists and designers. In a year it has held exhibitions, markets, DJ sets, workshops, collection launches and tattoo sessions. Up now is a small series of disposable-camera photographs of life in Geneva. Giving those artists somewhere to show was the point from the start. “A city becomes more interesting when people create what they feel it is missing,” they write. “995 is our contribution.”
A matcha at 10:00, and on a later evening a glass of natural wine on the terrace, the exhibition and the newest pieces taken in on the way past. What 995 becomes depends on who walks in: the neighbourhood bar, the morning coffee, the gallery, the ceramics and the clothes — or all of it at once.
