Bella
Italia is a wine store as well as a restaurant. The owner is a typical
warmhearted Sicilian woman. While selling the products of her home country and
offering a creative home-style cuisine on an upscale level she transfers the
Italian spirit to Germany. "Bella Italia Weine" was run for many
years in a small living-room-like place with a very personal atmosphere. To
extend the sales area as well as the capacity of seats she decided to move to a
new location.
The new
restaurant is located in Stuttgart West, an urban district which is very
popular as a housing area as well as a location for offices working in a
creative field. The restaurant is situated in the ground floor of a
freestanding multiple dwelling in a charming Wilhelminian style.
Our aim was
to keep the familiar atmosphere of the first restaurant, highlighting the
character as a wine store at the same time. The character of the room is determined
by two elements: At the ceiling we have mounted over 90 different mirrors found
on jumble sales. The second element is a kind of room in the room. With its
large oval table, a large round mirror on a wall with textile covering, a
carpet and a bunch of lamps hanging from the ceiling the space appears like a homelike
sitting-room. Three large shelf elements allow an effective promotion of the
products. A new corporate design completes the image of “Bella Italia Weine”.
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