Sartoria Restaurant

Łódź is a former industrial city in central Poland. Like many such cities across Europe, it has been going through a bad period in recent years. Recently, thanks to new investments, it has been becoming a dynamic city again. One of them is the former Karol Scheibler power plant, which is being restored. New life has been breathed into the over 100-year-old buildings. The old industrial buildings are being meticulously restored, and a new housing estate is being built around them. One of the historic buildings has become home to the Sartoria restaurant. The premises are located on two floors and have over 350 meters of usable space.

The architects decided to create a place that would refer to the serene nature of Italy in its appearance, breaking the austere post-industrial character of the building. The design itself includes a direct reference to the name of the place - Sartoria, or tailoring. The ground floor of the restaurant is surrounded by a red neon sign, which is wound on a fork like Italian pasta on one side, and on the other end of the premises is wound on a tailor's spool. This thread/pasta motif also appears on the staircase and on the first floor in the form of paintings and installations made of laser-cut sheet metal. It was the light sheet metal elements, applied to the original, cleaned brick and attached to its joints, that allowed the creators of the space to deal with the main problem, which was the absolute ban on interfering with the original walls of the building.
All the newly created walls in the building were covered with small colored tiles according to the pattern designed by the architects. This pattern also appears on the central table as an element connecting all the spaces in the premises. These colors were also "sampled" and repeated in the interior on the elements of the equipment (tables, sofas, upholstery, etc.) creating a coherent whole.
In addition to the eye-catching thread motif, in the interior of the restaurant you can find several delicacies referring to tailoring, such as decorative lamps on the tables designed in the shape of a spool, or lamps in the shape of hangers on the first floor, made in cooperation with the artist Vlad Oganov.

Once again, a precisely designed premises in every detail allowed us to create a place with Italian cuisine that has never existed in Łódź before.
 
Project authors: Sojka&Wojciechowski, Mikołaj Wojciechowski, Maciek Granecki, Konrad Sojka

Photographer: Maja Bułkowska