Restyling in the Key of 'Vintage' for the Well-Known Haunt of the North-East

11/11/2016 – After a comprehensive renovation and re-openening last spring, the meeting place in the North-East. A well-known night club of the riviera ligure with an exciting history marked by success and size.
Disco Italian par excellence opened in the year 1934 and since then, went into the history of costume, as the intersection of artists and international stars such as Brigitte Bardot, Nat King Cole, the trays, Gloria Gaynor, Barry White and Frank Sinatra, has written one of the most important pages in the history of the local branch.

For the description of the operation, taking the study of the Genoese llabb reported the "cave" of the historic beauty, "it is a necessary but short important Foreword," the designers say.

"The work began on the location in 1898; the housing which was the residence of the mistress of the baron Franchetti, an Opera singer in Austria. The death of the Baron was suicide after the departure of his beloved, through their brutal end in 1903. In spite of the quasi-embryonic stages of the work, with clear architectural quality, a brand that was for decades with a number of other components one of the secrets for the local success when this began a few years after the events from the beginning of the century, as an exclusive meeting place for dance and renowned music club. This was up to the year 2000.

The succession of new trends and tastes , models is hectic, the customers are more sensitive to the development of the image and renewal, often sensitive to short-lived fashions, but to a true and own "style"and "content" everything forcing the operator continued with the revision of the operations.

These spaces that we have leads to the development of a project to the origins, both from the point of view of the charter and of the architecture.

Developed in a time of eclettismi art, it opens its doors to the public, in a historical period, is extremely fertile, from the point of view of architecture: from the nineteenth century, was the last of the post-modern, while the rationalism takes unstoppable feet. The contrast between the two "isms" as different was the key to the project.

Exceeded a cleaning of the phase of the structure, we have decided to re-interpret the spirit of the place, its history, its character and its tradition in a modern way, wecan revive it with the most striking features. All are characterized by a strong momentum, so that the flexibility of the Fund allows a local, not only for the adaptation to most of the events different in the social media, but also attenuate and absorb in this kaleidoscope of styles, the rapid succession of modes.

On the front, two only of the signs that by the opening of our intervention were used, one with a beautiful font of 30 years, and another, made on a drawing done by hand, in accordance with the 60-ies. In the extension of this post, it was decided that a reminder of the historical name, as the characters are back to lights on the facade.

Inside the room in the last years it was used, in a versatile by the line a tightrope walk between the inside and the outside, depending on your needs, through the use of the tips to reduce or increase the rooms for the evening. This is one of the aspects that have the most influence on the design and planning. In the normally static, such as the dining room and the lounge have been redesigned to be mobile and configurable, so that the space can be changed.

Square of 4 meters on each side and a height of 3.4 meters, the private dining rooms are designed so that they are real mini-architecture in the room. The terrace is placed at a height of 30 cm, the fronts rotate around 16 sheets, 16, the speakers housed in the structure of the roof (roof).

The structure was to be of the expert locksmith to be mobile, wheels, high strength, and at the same time, removable.

From the left to the view and supports with panels made of expanded metal, the structure has a process of zinc by immersion of the coating, and the coloring of the dust, the color of gold. This type of design was chosen because it is economical, durable, and extremely weather-resistant, which is of crucial importance in view of the situation with a view to the sea. The same material was used, the coating of the bars and the Islands. In each private room there is a sofa chester, is the Commission by a manufacturer from the United Kingdom, to which they were sent to the tissues. These techniques are the materials that are used to the boats, decided to resist, in the context of the Navy, in the room.

Inspired by the neon signs, the hundreds of light bulbs from the early '900, was a wall as the "Chicago wall". This wall, with about 400 bulbs of the lamp is bent, on the inner side of the chamber, and do not touch the dance floor, after the pattern of the three different walls. The play of light are possible is almost unlimited, since the lamps are dimmable and are wired so that they can be used in sections individually adjustable".

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