Dine inside a rationalist design gem on the newly opened Cucina Triennale

When designing Cucina Triennale, the brand new restaurant and café for the Milanese design establishment, architect Luca Cipelletti and his studio seemed to the Triennale archives for inspiration. Discovering drawings of the unique tables designed in 1933 by Gigiotti Zanini for the restaurant, the studio, aided by the Molteni Group’s up to date furnishings model UniFor, have been entrusted with reissuing the design, mixing historic reminiscence with up to date expertise.

Cucina Triennale opens in Milan

Positioned on the Piano Parco and overlooking the Triennale backyard, the brand new restaurant additionally features a new seating design, the ‘Triennale Chair’, created by Studio Klass and made by UniFor as a recent reinterpretation of the constructing’s historic furnishings. Made solely of wooden, stackable, sensible and clear in design, the chair stands out for its steadiness of solidity and refinement.

Mounted bespoke parts, designed by Cipelletti and crafted by the Italian furnishings firm, embrace a big slatted oak counter, enhanced with 4 glass cabinets and a door with an built-in mechanism, combining useful rigour with formal coherence. Alongside the partitions, six niches unfold, every geared up with full-height wardrobes, low cupboards, glass cabinets, mirrors and stuck panels, all completed in brown-stained oak. Finishing the renovation are two slatted oak cloakrooms, with counters that includes lacquered fronts and pivot doorways, designed to make sure performance, accessibility and total visible concord.

The brand new restaurant – an ethereal, light-filled house that spills out into the encircling gardens – is a part of a wider redevelopment of the Triennale, additionally overseen by Cipelletti in collaboration with UniFor, which goals to revive the unique areas in continuity with Giovanni Muzio’s 1933 design. And it makes the right spot for a pre-theatre present dinner or a relaxed lunch with mates.