Project by Joséphine Devaud & Youri Kravtchenko | Construction management by Joséphine Devaud & Youri Kravtchenko | Photo by Dylan Perrenoud | Drawings by ©HEAD - Geneva | Elena Valazza | 2020
Cinecittà takes its name from the largest film recording studio in Europe, located in Rome. The “città del cinema” or “city of cinema” was founded in 1937 by Luigi Freddi, head of the Italian Cinema Department of the Fascist government at the time, with the aim of competing with Hollywood.
Here in Geneva, the Cinecittà honors all the great Italian classics that have been produced there. Sergio Leone's “Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo”, Federico Fellini's “La dolce vita”,... The atmosphere of the place takes us back to these warm, vintage settings where food is never far away.
Owners Antonio and Anthony Castrilli offer us their culinary “grande bluff”, a nod to “la grande bouffe” whose protagonists succumb to their own gluttony.
Old farm tables and second-hand bistro chairs found at the Puces du Canal in Lyon or on leboncoin.fr, sit alongside the cutting-edge design of lighting by Muller Van Severen for valerie_objects and Ex-cenere tiles by Formafantasma for Dzek. The cement tiles on the veranda, an original creation by Brazilian designer Lorenzo Lo Schiavo, are inspired by the trellises of Versailles.
