Restaurant “OLIVETO”
49 Elizabeth Street, LONDON SW1W 9PP - United Kingdom

1996

This small Italian restaurants of about 50 seats was conceived as a “younger brother” of OLIVO restaurant (see concerned pictures).
The entrance door from the street gives access to a lobby which allows to reach both the dining room and the upper floors, where are located a waiting room, the toilets and a private apartment. Here a new full height glazed partition has replaced a formerly existing separating wall, so to obtain the maximum visual integration between lobby and dining room This last one is articulated in a bar area and two main rooms, and it is strongly characterised by a boiserie made with full height fire resistant wood panels veneered with white maple, decorated – accordingly to the restaurant’s name – with oversized silhouettes of olive twigs, in a sort of inlaid work that creates a positive/negative graphic game in which the dark and light areas alternatively change of position at each angle or corner of the walls..

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