basilico (restaurant)
Architect and Project Manager: Emilio Viscardi in collaboration with Sabrina
De Caro and Roberto De Caro
Location: Via Panebianco, Cosenza, Italy
Year of Design and construction: 2005
The restaurant is built around the central counter that serves as a bar, a working area, placed at the centre of a space with rigorous lines and simple volumes.
This area is the dominant theme of the project. Everything, like the colour of the glass of the counter and the lighting, echoes and celebrates this. The lines of the counter converge toward the wood-burning oven that becomes the fulcrum of the composition of the interior design. In one part of the room the light intensity is regulated by cylindrically- shaped chandeliers, making the room lively during the day and in the evening creating a more intimate and private ambience.
The play of light, materials, surfaces and colours, with the use of warm earth tones, create an atmosphere that makes Basilico restaurant unusual, warm and cosy ,yet elegant and in good.
The use of partitions made of horizontal strips of spaced wenge wood, without clear separations, create a feeling of privacy and a unique space.Each piece of furniture comes as a single piece and was custom- designed for the room. The facade of Basilico looks like a large glass withdividing walls punctuated by brief fixtures made of metal and transparent glass with silkscreened letters of the name of the venue. This lessens the high level of transparency of the windows.
De Caro and Roberto De Caro
Location: Via Panebianco, Cosenza, Italy
Year of Design and construction: 2005
The restaurant is built around the central counter that serves as a bar, a working area, placed at the centre of a space with rigorous lines and simple volumes.
This area is the dominant theme of the project. Everything, like the colour of the glass of the counter and the lighting, echoes and celebrates this. The lines of the counter converge toward the wood-burning oven that becomes the fulcrum of the composition of the interior design. In one part of the room the light intensity is regulated by cylindrically- shaped chandeliers, making the room lively during the day and in the evening creating a more intimate and private ambience.
The play of light, materials, surfaces and colours, with the use of warm earth tones, create an atmosphere that makes Basilico restaurant unusual, warm and cosy ,yet elegant and in good.
The use of partitions made of horizontal strips of spaced wenge wood, without clear separations, create a feeling of privacy and a unique space.Each piece of furniture comes as a single piece and was custom- designed for the room. The facade of Basilico looks like a large glass withdividing walls punctuated by brief fixtures made of metal and transparent glass with silkscreened letters of the name of the venue. This lessens the high level of transparency of the windows.
