Princi Bakery
Milan
design by: Claudio Silvestrin Architects
The kitchen, shop, and exterior are united by one piece of porphyry stone that leads from the baking oven to the exterior of the shop where water trickles out of a slit onto the street. Inside the shop the stone functions as the counter. The oven is visible from within the store through a cut out in the wall.
The floors, columns, and stairs are in the same polished porphyry.
The bread bins and walls are clad in custom oxidized brass as are the walls of the stairwell.
fire & water
The kitchen faces the street and is separated from it by a glass window where passersby can watch the bakers at work. The staff and bakers are outfitted in white Armani designed uniforms.
The lighting is recessed into the ceiling and into the wall by the stairwell.
The materials are purposefully limited to brass, stone, fire, water, & wood to leave the focus on bread, the process of the bread making, and the smells of baking. The materials are basic and elemental as bread itself is yet they are tactile and sensual as is the experience of baking, smelling and eating bread.
information from Interior Design Magazine Volume 76 Number 1
January 2005
"Open Sandwich"
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