Vesta BE.ST BELINGARDI STEFANO

Milan, Italy ARCHITECT Stefano Belingardi Clusoni PROJECT Vesta DESCRIPTION Vesta is the first restaurant of the Triple Sea Food group, a recent entry in the Milan hospitality sector. The venue’s design represents a contemporary concept, where inside and outside merge, material quality is high and light is a protagonist. The restaurant, located in the historic Brera neighbourhood, stands out for its scenographic staircase in travertine.

“The idea was to open everything up, by creating a link between the inside and the outside by means of the windows.”

“Continuity is key. The outdoor area has a very clean look, all in stone. In the interior spaces, the floor is in travertine, but there are also contrasting elements with an ebony gloss, that give depth and warmth.”

STEFANO BELINGARDI CLUSONI Stefano Belingardi Clusoni is a Milanese architect. In the year 2020, he was nominated as one of Italy’s best architects under 40 by Platform magazine. Graduating with the best Master’s project according to the jury of the Mario Botta Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland, he has worked in Barcelona, Berlin and Shanghai, gaining valuable experience in some of the most prestigious international studios, including EMBT Miralles Tagliabue, Daniel Libeskind and Cino Zucchi. In 2016 he founded the BE.ST Belingardi Stefano Architect studio in Milan. Vesta is his...

How do you link Vesta to the neighbourhood of Brera, in which it is situated? In Brera there are a lot of restaurants with tables outside, it’s very touristy. The architecture of Vesta, being very modern, stands in contrast to all this, but the adjacent building is rationalist, hence it’s still coherent with the context. There’s continuity as regards the materials, too, because many of the structures on the same road are built in quarried travertine. So, the texture blends well with the brickwork of the church. Moving on to the interior, was it the client who defined the space? Actually, the...

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