Restaurant lighting

La Ménagère in Firenze, now a concept restaurant, was founded in 1896 as the first Florentine home store (not by chance, the name means “housewife" in French). Today this large room of 1500 square meters, divided into two floors, looks like a real treasure chest full of curious objects, plants and flowers with bright colours, special furnishing elements and Karman designer lamps.Almost wanting to recreate the atmosphere once reigning in the shop: the full shelves, tints and shades of the walls, images hanging on the walls, illumination and decorated spaces, coexist in harmony and make this place unique and inimitable. Caption The architecture and interior design studio Q-bic thought to illuminate the main areas of... More

The design responds essentially to a clear picture provided by the client, an image and personal style of a specific period and aestheticism aimed to a sophisticated audience. The choice of "secret " doors clad in brick in the hallways answers to an allusion to the concept of speakeasy bar. In the front, a coffee place whose characteristics mark tendency. Without intending to replicate or reproduce a time era, the proposal seeks to build a patchwork of situations and conceptual triggers, therefore generating the intended climate. Spatially, the factory setting is typically ethereal, so there was a clear intention to divide the space in order to generate a low spatial scale. The use of "stations" is a strategy that create distinctive focus a... More