Cristina Celestino makes use of plaster and terracotta for 28 Posti restaurant inside

Plaster partitions, terracotta tiles and powder-blue particulars function 28 Posti, a restaurant in Milan that has been revamped by architect and designer Cristina Celestino.

28 Posti serves up a number of up to date Mediterranean dishes to an intimate group of diners – one thing hinted at within the restaurant’s identify, which interprets from Italian to “28 seats”.

Having first opened its doorways in 2013, the restaurant’s white-painted inside had grown drained in look.

Domestically-based Cristina Celestino was introduced on board to refresh the inside “with out distorting its convivial and relaxed environment”.

The cooking fashion of Marco Ambrosino, the younger chef that heads up 28 Posti, grew to become Celestino’s principal level of inspiration for the overhaul.

“[The restaurant] performs on the ideas of authenticity, consolation, simplicity and origin, and goals to create a parallel between the inside of the restaurant and the kitchen of chef Marco Ambrosino – the undisputed soul of the place,” mentioned Celestino.

“Ambrosino’s delicacies begins with uncooked and quite simple elements. He turns them into dishes that maintain their authenticity, however on the identical time makes use of the elements in a really refined and sudden approach,” she instructed Dezeen.

Celestino has due to this fact used an array of pure supplies to finish the area.

Earth-tone plaster has been washed throughout the higher half of the restaurant’s rear wall, which is punctuated with a few sq. niches that show ceramic ornaments. The decrease half of the wall is clad with terracotta tiles which have arched grooves.

A crumbling brick wall that runs by the centre of the ground plan has additionally been preserved.

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Celestino subtly injected color into the restaurant by together with a handful of powder-blue particulars.

The color has been utilized to the legs of every of the timber eating tables, between the unique picket beams on the ceiling and a small storage cabinet.

A shelving unit that stands inside one of many brick wall’s arched openings additionally has powder-blue framework.

Textural curiosity is added by a partition wall that is coated in perforated white tiles and pleated-steel pendant lamps that dangle from above.

“The identification of the place shouldn’t be modified radically, however for my part has developed and refined,” Celestino concluded.

Cristina Celestino is predicated in Milan and has been working throughout the structure and design industries since 2005. She has beforehand created an set up titled The Glad Room for style label for Fendi, which was full of plush, 1950s-style furnishings.

Final 12 months, Celestino additionally developed the interiors of the cocktail bar inside Lodge Il Palazzo Experimental in Venice. The area options candy-pink partitions, a striped carpet and ornate vintage mirrors.

Images is by Delfino Sisto.