restaurant Enoteca DiVina in St. Petersburg
Passing the galleryText: Olga Gvozdeva
Leading headings: Nina Farizova
A photo: Yury Molodkovets
Idea: Arkady Teplitsky
Project author: Oleg Kovalenko
Sculptor: Svetlana Melnichenko
Painter: Andrey Katsuba, Natalya Solntseva
Magazine: N11 (111) 2006
In the St. Petersburg restaurant Enoteca DiVina you need to come primarily to try Italian wines, lentil soup, homemade pasta and freshly baked bread. Enoteca, to be more precise, called the cellar, in which the wine is stored for more than a dozen years. In order not to stand out from the style, the authors of the project decided to design the two halls of the restaurant and the cigar room as a medieval castle. The softly lit vaults of the former stables of the Winter Palace (the arch of the General Staff Building) add to the interior the special sculptural characteristic of temple architecture. All furniture is created by the author's sketches. The bar counter is artificially aged, massive chairs on lion legs are dressed in velvet covers. Nevertheless, the holy of holies of the enoteca is a wine cellar in which the vessels with precious wine are stored.
Address: St. Petersburg, Palace Square, 6/8