Tables, wood oven and cashier are what you expect to find in a pizza place. That’s not the case of Kook, a pizza restaurant in the heart of Rome designed by Mohamed Keilani and Luca Gasparini for Noses Architects studio. The architects created an unexpected place by adding a kind of industrial-vintage touch to the interior. The restaurant looks like a Mediterranean-tradition mecca enriched by vintage details as well as ultra-modern elements. Synthetic resin, parquet and concrete tile flooring; sink tubes in view but also a vintage Bianchi bicycle hung above the door; old furniture reminding of our grandma’s apartment… all mixed together. Tables, wood oven and cashier are what you expect to find in a pizza place. 

That’s not the case of Kook, a pizza restaurant in the heart of Rome designed by Mohamed Keilani and Luca Gasparini for Noses Architects studio. The architects created an unexpected place by adding a kind of industrial-vintage touch to the interior. The restaurant looks like a Mediterranean-tradition mecca enriched by vintage details as well as ultra-modern elements. Synthetic resin, parquet and concrete tile flooring; sink tubes in view but also a vintage Bianchi bicycle hung above the door; old furniture reminding of our grandma’s apartment… all mixed together.Tradition and innovation are linked with the aim of emphasizing Mediterranean culinary tradition which is symbolized by a big olive tree inside a glass case, aside a green aquarium lighting up the whole place. A restaurant to spend some happy time in by eating delicious food and enjoying the pleasant surprising union between tradition, memories and modernity.

INFO: www.noses.it

Photo Courtesy of Filippo Vinardi  for Noses Architects