Canadian studio Guido Costantino Tasks has taken a pared-back strategy to the interiors of Italian restaurant Occhiolino in Toronto by utilizing an deliberately restrained materials palette.
Near Toronto’s Little Italy neighbourhood, the Occhiolino restaurant occupies a former mechanic’s store set again from the road.
Guido Costantino Tasks aimed to guard the economic, worn really feel of the constructing when remodeling the house into an off-the-cuff restaurant for house owners Nick Manzone and Luke Donato.
“We liked that ‘making’ would stay within the story of the constructing — and needed to honour the honesty of the construction and the historical past with out being too deferential,” mentioned Guido Costantino, the studio’s founder and artistic director.
An arcaded wall was constructed from straight-stack gray bricks in entrance of the unique constructing, clearly defining previous and new. It shows the restaurant’s branding, developed by Area Design Workplace.
The identical bricks have been used to assemble the white counter-topped bars and several other different partitions inside, forming “a sew all through the house, unifying and minimising the palette” in keeping with the workforce.
Mounted minimalist stools line up in entrance of the primary bar, whereas oak millwork varieties storage behind. A dropped ceiling above is embedded with spherical lights.
A staircase is fashioned from brick on the base, transitioning to white steel after it turns within the lead as much as the primary eating space.
Overhead, a row of angled clerestory home windows brings pure gentle into each ranges of the restaurant.
Aiming to depart the prevailing constructing alone as a lot as potential, a second pores and skin was constructed across the uncovered brick.
The furnishings and new architectural components upstairs are all comprised of the identical pale wooden, whereas a “flour-white” hue covers the remaining clean surfaces.
Extra globe lights are embedded into niches within the partitions and affixed in sudden locations, together with on the top of a beam dealing with the staircase.
“The sunshine-filled house from Guido Costantino Tasks is an embodiment of modest minimalism,” mentioned the workforce.
“There was intentionality and self-discipline in avoiding luxurious supplies and fussy ornamentation, which felt wholly inappropriate to the essence of the constructing’s blue-collar type and historical past.”
Guido Costantino Tasks struck a equally subdued tone for the interiors of one other Italian eatery in Toronto, Osteria Giulia, which was longlisted within the Restaurant and Bar Inside class of Dezeen Awards 2022.
Different eating spots within the metropolis with scrumptious interiors embody Daphne, designed by Studio Paolo Ferrari – a Dezeen Awards 2024 shortlisted undertaking – and Prime Seafood Palace by Omar Gandhi Architect.
The pictures is by Rick O’Brien.
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