EverGreen fingerfood bar (Corfù project) | Marco Rucci

The EverGreen bar is a poetical space where the light, the colours and the shapes

speak of multiplicity, possibilities and diversities finally together under a wish that

won’t ever be consumed.

The main concept it was to reject the traditional signboard, expanding its

dimensions over the whole façade, thus, making it the logo of the bar: the E and G

of the trade-name therefore become the threshold through which to move from a

literal space (conceptual) to a physical one( architectonic).

The need to exalt the relationship with the customer over the road, as it’s used by

the typical Greek town “coffees”, has been decisive to generate a strong sense of

continuity the inner and the outer spaces; the coffee’s red “Corian” bancalina

and stainless steel counter, windingly, move along the three dimensions from the

inside and the outside, envelop and arrange together the duties of the chef, the

barman and the customers and, finally, with this experience conquer the fourth

dimension.

The release of the corner from any formal solution makes the connection between

the street and the square even more immediate and allows the passer-by to

perceive instantly the Kostas Georgakis dedicated sculpture.

Outdoor-indoor continuity, wall-pavement ambiguity, chromatic dynamism given

from the multiplicity of strongly photo-sensitive materials, work together in the

effort to give a wide spaciousness to the only 30 square meters at disposal where

every single element has been designed in full.

The materials as the stainless steel, the glass, the orange resin and the vitreous

“tesserae”, kindly tinge the bar with colours and evanescent images which change

from time to time and belong to the surroundings and the old town; furthermore

the many green shades are a gift to the infinite traces the Corfu’s landscape offers

even though they are overrun by the unique “national green” widely used in the

isle’s building( maybe a necessity of synthesis!).

The green colours of the “Evergreen” are the memories of Corfu, they are the

colours that don’t want to be forever the same( it’s enough to enter the bar and

look at the leaf-fall…), they are postcards, free thoughts, different subject and

layer-by-layer painted emotions like as a need of living memories, meaningful

traces, before everything get confused, everything get the same colour.