A young architect,

tells a story with an interior design

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Hello, design junkies!

As I'm sure we can all agree, pizza is truly a year-round type of dish. Frankly, we can't even imagine going more than a week without eating some variation of arguably one of the best carbs known to man.

But as Rome becomes more and more touristy, luck is in eating a pizza cooked in a wood-fired oven with high-quality typical products.

Fortunately, the young architect Carmine Abate wanted to bring a typical place, where the smell of fresh pizzas warms the heart as if the ‘forno’ itself.

Carmine Abate, founded his studio in 2016.

After his first experience abroad, in Paris, he moved in to Lisbon, where he handled facility management for Prada and Miu Miù shops. He then settled in Naples, where he mainly dealt with the interior architecture of residential and commercial spaces: bars, showrooms, restaurants, and shops. His projects are conceived and developed with great attention to detail. The design approach, with many custom-designed elements, is a constant of his works while the interest in various styles, eras, and cultural references makes each of his ideas unique and eclectic.

Ivan Righi comes from a tradition of Neapolitan pizza makers, who operate between Naples and Rome. After the first Malaterra in Prati district, he plans out of opening its doors abroad and diversifying the activities with the opening of an ice cream parlor in Piazza del Pantheon.

Now things started to get real, abroad? We cant wait to see the next projects.

The floor and the walls have a characterising element, corresponding to the massive use of "broken" tiles, by Ceramica Vogue, specifically for the realisation of the Palladian floor, as a perimeter coating that reaches its peak in the bathroom, where it becomes totally enveloping, being placed even on the ceiling. White, sugar paper, turmeric, Indian yellow, and charcoal black are the colours used, according to a proportion established and studied upstream. The two ovens in the room, instead, are entirely covered in black, and the fermentation room, entirely in white. The walls, of the four rooms, are each treated with Sikkens water enamel. Entering, the first is coloured with blue jeans, and then move on to "greige" a crisis between grey and beige, the colour of raw silk, The bird room is a darker "greige", almost a taupe, and finally the balcony, in earthy red.

The Bitossi plates are the fashion touch of the intervention. A total of three hundred and seventy-seven were used! Daisy to carter to a calzone, both come to whimsical, deliberately written in a disjointed form. Instead, the one hundred and sixty flat pizzas in the "SMS" collection, have been assembled to create luminous elements.

In the first room, a ring with a diameter of two meters welcomes guests with a clear welcome message: "Bring me a pizza". In the same room, another two set of plates that celebrate mozzarella and basil two key ingredients!

The central hall is invaded by a cascade of brilliant "one love" pendants. Finally, at the bar, "one hoax" is the pretext for double-sided suspensions with a vaguely retro flavour.

All boiserie is in mocha-stained oak with inserts in natural Vienna straw. So bar counter, cash desk are covered with this material. Even the sofas are surmounted by a straw insert, to make the seats more intimate.

The starting point was a place with a complicated and irregular plan. An irregular room enfilade of different sizes. The luck for the architect was certainly the complicity of the client, and the possibility to escape the rules of format and franchising. And the comfortable times of the pandemic, to manage a construction site, with the comforts of the case.

"With another entrepreneur, I would never have been able to propose such a coating and if there had not been the lockdown we would not have had the necessary time to apply them also to the ceiling", says the architect, recalling the difficulties of a construction site, in the center of Rome.”
"After all, the pandemic was also this: opportunity, calm, reflection and perhaps... exaggeration, which I never mind!"

Italy is a special place, where the Mediterranean approach embraces the pretext to visit the country with an open heart, sometimes calling it the second home.

The small architect wishes to honor traditions and share Italian culture and values and, Palladian is the ultimate expression of Mediterranean Design, with warm and explosive colours, so he dedicated himself to the creation of this restaurant as if it were his own home portrayed.

The display of products tells a story, which accompanies the consumer in an experience that makes taste the only starting point. The numerous displays contain the products that are used for pizza and cooking, to introduce the customer to another very important factor: the guarantee of the use of quality raw materials.

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