Candido1859 by LOLA

Design studio Local Office for Large Architecture (LOLA) and architect Riccardo Cavaciocchi have completed the menswear section of a department store in southern Italy that first opened in 1859.

Called CANDIDO1859, the project features a central round table with a reflective glass top, which allows light to penetrate through to the floor below.

Bent metal wires meander through the space.

See all our stories about shop interiors »

Photographs are by Francesco Prato.

The information that follows is from LOLA:

---

CANDIDO1859 – Department Store

Maglie-Lecce (Italy)
Surface: 627sm

The last of three floors, the men’s department of Candido (opened 1859) is among the first designer-label stores to open in Southern Italy.

The mirrored ceiling heightens a space which grabs the visitor before enticing them down a coloured path of light.

The raised central patio, which central round table works as skylight for the lower main hall, modifies the surrounding space through a combination of perspective and illusion, one blue tumbling into another.

---

See also:

.

Centre for Paper Restoration by LOLA	Rhus Ovata Tel Aviv by k1p3	More retail design

Read more

• Interiors