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

..The whole area is surrounded by an high fencing wall, finished with a rough lime and sand based plaster, which gave the opportunity to create wide surfaces of bright contrasting colours, rows of blind arcades working as background to citrus-fruit plants and their bulging terracotta vases, or simple architectural compositions vaguely evoking works of Mexican architect Luis Barràgan. The most effective feature of such wall is its part facing the main road, through which are cut several square opening of different sizes framing small enamelled white vases which agreeably contrast with the intense blue of the Sardinian sky and the warm shade of red of the wall itself. The dining area is organized under a wide cane-mat roof covering an as large terrace floored with a patchwork of many-coloured surplus ceramic tiles surrounding a central “carpet” of Mexican handcrafted tiles while the extra-large garden, devoted to receive non-eating people, dancing people and shows spectators, is mostly organized as a green meadow where lots of exotic plants and secular local essences are planted.

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