Ristorante “OLIVO”
21 Eccleston Street, LONDON SW1W - United Kingdom
1991

The brief of this project specifically requested to enhance the Mediterranean origins of both proprietors (native of France and Italy), their desire to return – after many years of pretentious “tra-la-la” imposed by nouvelle cuisine – to the traditional and nearly peasant gastronomic culture of their regions, and to a common memory of a childhood spent close to the sea; all this without neglecting, of course, to optimize the space they disposed of. To hit this last target the two access to restaurant and staircase, formerly separated, have been unified, while the toilets and cloakroom area, formerly oversized, has been reduce to its minimum. From the decorative point of view the feeling of the clients was interpreted by designing a place where any detail was meant to have the same taste as old good ordinary things, of old fashion country houses or of the convivial places of any Mediterranean province, attentively trying to avoid easy and cheap reproductions..

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