Restaurant and night-bar
EL PEYOTE
Villasimius, Sardegna, Italia
1996

El Peyote is a restaurant and night-bar inspired by Mexican folklore, where service and live shows are performed exclusively out-doors, around a small building (placed in the full centre of a wide area of about 10.000 square metres) which contains storage rooms and a guest house for season staff coming from Mexico, in the basement, plus kitchen and other services at the ground floor. This whole project has been played upon analogies existing between the popular decorative language of Sardinia and Mexico, both having a common matrix in the Spanish aesthetic culture (grown firm in Sardinia during three centuries of domination). Such analogies have been sublimated and reduced to their least common denominator of colour (bright, solar, violent, borderline with vulgarity), of flora and of a poor, yet creative, use of gaily-coloured re-used ceramic tiles..

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