Client / PPP
Year / 2015
Location / Palermo, Italy
Inspiring source of the atmosphere of this restaurant are the braziers laboratories (Officine Calderai), a historical and reference place for all the inhabitants of Palermo where you can still see skilled craftsmen who perpetuate an ancient tradition of this city. Processing techniques and welding of metal, usually aimed at the production of artifacts useful to everyday life - boilers (or quarare in Sicilian dialect, from which originates the name of the street), cauldrons, trays, cruets, etc. - have been used here to make lamps, tables, chairs, racks, window and door fixtures. Each element - from the tray on which they served sandwiches, to lamps, to hand basin, etc. - is specially designed and is different from the others. They are unique pieces, like all products in this street of Palermo. In particular, the seven lamps above the counter, handmade and tin, have all different forms. The interior design of the PPP Burger - a hamburger fast food restaurant who interprets the quintessential American street food with ingredients sourced entirely Sicilian - thus combining a strong local identity with international aspects. The space is designed as a single environment, where only a long counter divides the areas of work and consumption, so that the customer is fully involved in the experience of preparing food and beverage. The entrance door, a double folding door, according to different seasons or needs, can be opened partially or completely in order to transform the interior into an exterior and vice versa. Even in the winter days, the large windows allow a visual continuity between inside and outside. The materials and colors used combine a strong industrial and handcrafted style: the lighting system, draft beer system and the taps of the sinks are made of galvanized steel pipes in view; furniture - stools, tables, counter, racks - are made of wood and rusted iron; material, the latter, also used for doors and window frames; gray walls and floors recall the concrete; while the bathroom walls are covered in chalkboard
Credits
Concept and design / Martinelli Venezia
Production / Enzo Zerbo Fabbro, Giana Costruzioni, Matranga Falegnameria, Nino Ciminna Artigiano
Photo / Angelo Cirrincione