The Giordano Bruno restaurant was open in 2001 of its owner’s and my own will to transform an old hut into a restaurant that matches with Viareggio Wet Dock and the nearby nature. It is a meeting place close to the pinewood, with the Apuan Alps behind and opposite the unbounded horizon of the Tyrrhenian sea where Summer, light and smells enter and mix freely; to me Giordano Bruno meant to be a tribute to the sea and the love for those places where I often took refuge during the breaks between a film set and an other. This space is organized upon the box idea: it is possible to open it in the Summer, by the light on each side by using big sliding glass cuts. It is a box-sculpture that is made by making use of poor materials that are bony as if they were pulled off the sea. The inside empty space is filled with big commercial shelves that support the central body of the structure; a living area crosses the room to host the latest minutes of the evening. Heavy modern plaster casts on the walls furniture, like footprints on the sand, like little moulds made by men-children. The uniqueness of few elements praises and fills the empty space; white as a colour prevailing on anything, like a cloud in the September sky.Even the most absorbed customer cannot be indifferent to brilliant emotions and to the magnificence of big “sculpture” tables suppliers: a square 2.5 x 2.5 table covered with thousands of pages of a dictionary turned yellow with the sun and a 4 m table, placed in the main hall and characterised by a considerable thickness and with grooves on the surface, as if it was a heavy marble slab from the nearby Apuan Alps. On the terrace, tied to trunks stolen from the sea, the white sails move themselves in the wind like an improvised tent of a passing by traveller who stopped his journey to smell the sea scent. During the restyling carried out in 2008, together with some changes inside and to the shelves, the lighting was reviewed, the one of the tables in particular, using the Nuvole Vagabonde hanging and standing patterns as well as the Margherita pattern hanging on the big square table.

Particolare del tavolo ricoperto di pagine di vocabolario ingiallite al sole.Particolar of the table covered with thousands ofPages of a dictionary turned yellow with the sun.