![Taglio / rgastudio - Windows, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5627/87b8/e58e/cee6/f000/022c/newsletter/portada_003.jpg?1445431211)
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Architects: rgastudio
- Area: 140 m²
- Year: 2014
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Photographs:Michele Nastasi
![Taglio / rgastudio - Shelving, Table, Chair, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5627/877b/e58e/cee6/f000/022a/newsletter/010.jpg?1445431149)
Text description provided by the architects. Taglio is located in Milan, at number 10 via Vigevano. On the ground floor of a typically Milanese block of flats with communal balconies, it is just a few feet away from the Navigli canals. The idea was to create a multifunctional space where a restaurant, a food shop, a bar and a café could coexist – a place designed to be bustling all day long, where customers could indulge in the ritual of coffee drinking or enjoying gourmet food.
![Taglio / rgastudio - Shelving, Table, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5627/8751/e58e/ce12/7a00/0210/newsletter/008.jpg?1445431107)
The shop, part of the restaurant tables and the café’s large counter are located in the first room. Vast, brickwork arches lead to the second room, with its open-plan kitchen.
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The interior design suggests the aftermath of an earthquake within the perimeter of the building. The walls have been stripped of their thick plasterwork, thus revealing the old, brick, load-bearing structures beneath. Fastened to them, poles of Kotò wood connected by iron joints form a dense framework that reminds us of security scaffolding. This modular structure runs along the entire interior perimeter, providing ample display space.
![Taglio / rgastudio - Shelving](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5627/86c9/e58e/cee6/f000/0226/newsletter/005.jpg?1445430971)
A patchwork of blackboards covers the entire counter. From a long, cedar-wood bar the staff can be seen at work in the kitchen. The opposite wall is decorated with drawings by the food illustrator Gianluca Biscalchin. Globe light-bulbs attached to a dense network of copper tubes illuminate the rooms.
![Taglio / rgastudio - Table, Shelving, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5627/86b7/e58e/ce12/7a00/020e/newsletter/004.jpg?1445430954)