MAX’ Piano-bar
Villasimius, Sardegna, Italia
1989

This project has been, since the beginning, conditioned by the natural element which may be considered the strongest and most characterising presence in the site where this space is located: the sea. Far from the intention of using any predictable reference to it – of the kind one can see on seasides postcards – an attempt has been made to evoke its presence through less common, yet more suggestive references, which could also help to put the accent on the atmosphere of “full immersion” (in the music, in this case, rather than in the depth of the sea) which later resulted to be, among the features of this place, the one which exerts the strongest attraction on its customers: through a few elements, evoking the aesthetic language of naval carpentry, it has been tried to give the frequenters of this place the sensation of penetrating into a ship hold or, actually, into the bowels of a submarine hypothetically lied down on one of the magnificent sea floors of this region; this sensation being reinforced by the hypogeal location of the premises and by the necessity to access them through a narrow and steeply stairway.

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