Ask Italian, Swindon
Project - Ask Italian
Location - Swindon, United Kingdom
Product Used - HW3007 Medio
Designer - Gundry and Ducker
Gundry and Ducker were tasked with creating a warm and relaxed dining environment, whilst maintaining a sense of simplicity authentic to the Italian lifestyle, one solution has been to divide the open plan layout into a series of ‘rooms’, each with a different character.
Ask Italian is undergoing a major refurbishment of their 100 plus restaurants throughout the UK, under the auspices of Gundry and Ducker. Tasked with creating a warm and relaxed dining environment, whilst maintaining a sense of simplicity authentic to the Italian lifestyle, one solution has been to divide the open plan layout into a series of ‘rooms’, each with a different character. The use of wood laid on the diagonal is a recurring theme: here in Swindon some of the ‘rooms’ feature 20mm Oak Medio for both the floor and cladding, others use Oak Medio and Oak Nile herringbone, alternated in a simple but effective pattern, whilst still others also feature herringbone for the specially commissioned table tops.