La lanterna RESTAURANT

The brief for La Lanterna - one of the finest Italian restaurants in the country (Italian daily newspaper La Stampa labelled it ‘the English temple of Italian cuisine’!) was to create artwork that reflected chef Georgio’s home town of Piedmont, Italy, and his now adopted home of Scarborough. The panels form part of the partition between the restaurant’s two dining areas, the theme of one which focussed on Piedmont, and the other Scarborough. I designed imagery based on Scarborough’s seascapes, and Piedmont’s Mulberry trees, and in particular the pollarded trees represented so beautifully by the artist Mario Pavese, a friend of Georgio’s. The glass panels are installed back to back, and one can be seen through the other, so I designed them to complement each other. The lines of the receding Piedmont landscape echo the horizontal lines of Scarborough’s receding sands, and the merging of the two sets of imagery symbolises the emotional merging of Georgio’s two home towns.

The brief was to create artwork that reflected Georgio’s home town of Piedmont, Italy, and his now adopted home of Scarborough. The panels form part of the partition between the restaurant’s two dining areas, the theme of one which focussed on Piedmont, and the other Scarborough. I designed imagery based on Scarborough’s seascapes, and Piedmont’s Mulberry trees, and in particular the pollarded trees represented so beautifully by the artist Mario Pavese, a friend of Georgio’s. The glass panels are installed back to back, and one can be seen through the other, so I designed them to complement each other. The lines of the receding Piedmont landscape echo the horizontal lines of Scarborough’s receding sands, and the merging of the two sets of imagery symbolises the emotional merging of Georgio’s two home towns.