MULINO A VINO, ITALIAN WINE RESTAURANT, NEW YORK

“In the very heart of Manhattan’s Meatparcking District, on 14th Street, is the Mulino a Vino restaurant and wine bar. It occupies the basement of a residential building and has an elegant open kitchen where the dishes are given their final touches, as well as a generous bar counter for snacks. Right of the entrance is an inviting dining room while there are two small rooms down the corridor, one has couches where customers can relax and the other has large dining tables.Oakwood floor planks and decorated concrete have been used to design the floor in the restaurant area, where exposed brick walls are interspersed with soft-toned painted walls that hark back to the colors of nature. Decorated tiles, chrome-plated steel elements and gray marble-topped counters define the kitchen. The very bespoke design used for the furnishings gives the rooms a strong footprint, a lot of the furniture comes from antique stores and was restored and adapted to fulfil its new function.Two old radiators are the supports for the new custom-designed marble and wood top of the large dining room table, the bar has a gray marble counter and front cladding with metal panels that were once a ceiling decoration, old school desks have been repurposed after simply being embellished with a marble top. The choice of vintage-style industrial lighting gives the spaces a strong personality. Swing arm lamps provide a focused light on the tables for two, a light with a mesh structure and spheres of light sits on the round table at the center of the dining room, metallic mesh ceiling lights run down the corridor. The lighting for the bar counter is provided by rhomboid wood structures with a light at the center that serve as a wine glass rack.”

LUCA AMENDOLA AND GIANLUCA GEROLI

The owners wanted to create an informal place with detailing that would assert its Italianity but not in a traditional way, the place had to evoke a cosmopolitan atmosphere.Mainly reclaimed materials were used and reworked in a way that would give customers the impression of finding themselves in a place that has always been there and not something that was purposefully created.The project, from inception through to completion, took about 12 months, and required major masonry work to convert what was once the building’s basement into a commercial space.

WHERE NEW YORK CITY, USA AREA 210Smq WHEN 2014

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In 2007, with more than a decade each in different design areas, Luca Alessandro Amendola and Gianluca Geroli founded SGS Architetti Associati in Milan.

Two entirely different backgrounds – one, for Luca Amendola, more oriented toward industrial design and creating spaces for the fashion industry; the other, for Gianluca Geroli, more toward urban design and architecture applied to Management -- join forces to create something that is not the sum of its parts, but something unique, built upon ongoing, shared influences. An approach that allows each partner to maintain his own identity and individuality while still contributing something new to the joint creative process.

A mixed bag of projects in a diverse range of sectors. Some formal, like the UniCredit Bulbank headquarters in Sofia (Bulgaria) or the Moreschi shops (37 since 2009, including one opening soon in Florence), others more glamorous, like clubs and restaurants. Not just in Italy, but also abroad, like the most recent Mulino a Vino in New York, home to the culinary creations of renowned Michelin two-star chef, Davide Scabin.

But also homes, special projects, exhibit spaces and installations. And, given the growing demand, the firm is once again getting involved in product design, outlining the contours of products that are then put into mass production, like the recent “Gigi” lamp, created for the Moreschi showroom and now manufactured by Status.

An international vision might well be the other distinctive cornerstone behind the founding of SGS Architetti Associati: the constant influence of cultures and styles, sometimes barely hinted at and at other times openly declared.

Non-stop research, a quest not only in terms of style but also for materials and solutions for an architecture of places, night clubs, buildings, homes that are never obvious, but finely-crafted in every detail.

Projects that celebrate innovation and never repeat themselves because, for SGS Architetti, architecture really is about the customer, tailored to fit like a high-fashion garment. But they all do have one trait in common: skillful use of light. A core element, the creativity of lighting designers, because everything else has its source in light.

The Firm

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LUCA ALESSANDRO AMENDOLA

Born in Monza in 1970, he receives his degree in 1999, in Milan. Since 1990 he has dedicated himself to creating design objects and accessories for various fashion houses. In 1992 he wins a scholarship to the ENSCI LES ATELIERS School of design in Paris where he delves deep into the planning of design objects -- from the study of prototyping to creation of the finished product. Since 1995 he has worked with professional studios in the creation of trade show stands and small-scale architecture, shops and private homes. He served as the subject expert for the product strategy course at the Milan Polytechnic University and as a teaching fellow at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) in Milan for the Fashion Retail Management course. In 1999 he opens “Studionovantanove” an architectural firm, free-lancing with two other architects, Oddone and Zocchi. In 2007 he closes Studio99 and opens SGS Architetti Associati.

GIANLUCA GEROLI

Graduates from the Milan Polytechnic in 1997 following a technology-based course of study at the university, integrating it with work and research jobs at several architectural firms in Milan. He goes out on his own and in 2000 opens the Geroli architectural firm, editing urban-scale design projects, finalizing the urban recovery of industrial areas and the expansion of hotel and residential complexes. In 2007 he opens SGS Architetti Associati. In December of 2013 he receives a certificate of participation in the “Architecture and Management Workshop” organized by the “SDA Bocconi University School of Management”. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Centro Studi Grande Milano.

The Senior Partners

SGS Architetti Associati boasts a team of young talents who work alongside the senior partners at every stage of development, from design to implementation. It is also supported by “experienced” staff who have grown up with SGS and form the founding core of the firm in terms of expertise and professionalism.

The Team

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