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

..Simple and traditional materials were here widely used, as like solid recycled wood (as for the shopfront, inner doors, bar counter, floor boards and pieces of furniture) and lime and natural pigments based plasters which entirely cover the walls, split into an upper area defined by a warm and deep shade of yellow, and an high ultramarine-blue dado, along the upper edge of which is a naïf decorative stencilled band formed by recurrent roughly geometrical figures meant to remind the different shapes of Italian pasta. Along the lower side of each wall runs a terracotta handmade skirting which systematically rises up to frame each door opening. In the middle of a wall of the rear dining room is a full height opening giving access to toilets and cloakroom lobby. Beyond such doorway, visible from the dining room, is the vertical garden of herbs, a quotation of those step-shaped shelves where any southern Italian housewife who had the privilege of disposing of a sunny terrace used to grow up their ready-to-use herbs.

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