El Buscia

What: Designing of new a champagne bar  
Who: El Buscia
Where: Milan - Italy
When: 2013 (El Buscia 1) – 2016 (El Buscia 2)
AREA: 75 sq. m (El Buscia 1) – 90 sq. m (El Buscia 2)
AREA49: Davide Camera, Ilaria Camera | Camera&Partners

El Buscia's project was born from the idea of creating a place to taste and explore champagne and sparkling wines from all over the world.
The aim of the project: to create a simple but "distinctive" place, welcoming and able to arouse curiosity and impress the clientele. Following the request to display more than 300 different labels, maximizing the space, it was decided to furnish the walls with boxes of recycled wood, from different sizes and wood essence, fitted together in a seemingly random way. Behind this "game of fitting", in reality, lies a careful aesthetic and functional study, which has allowed us to achieve the need to display a considerable amount of labels all different from each other. The bottles appear not only bottled on the walls but also decorated on a champagne-coloured resin floor. The bar has been entirely realized on an iron design; a tubular structure which acts as a structure while a rivetted sheet metal running on the tubular acts as a covering. 
The second El Buscia, realized 3 years later, was also created with the same design philosophy; in this case an iron mezzanine has been realized to house a larger number of bottles.