Italian HOME COMPANY ATELIER COLLECTIONS PROJECTS COMMUNICATION CONTACTS PRESS AREA Home Projects Outdoor & Urban living Central Market of Florence CENTRAL MARKET OF FLORENCE Piazza San Lorenzo The redevelopment project, curated by the architectural firm Archea Associati of Florence with offices and works built in many countries of the world, under the guidance of the architect Marco Casamonti, has set itself the goal of creating a new covered urban square by placing the emphasis on the need to provide the city center with a new contemporary meeting place. There was no need for radical regulatory and technical adjustments: the previous ones dated 2008 and had left an empty and usable space available on the first floor of the Central Market, without however that charm and that domesticity - sense of welcome - typical of city squares. We therefore thought more than invasive transformations to additions to shops, through the use of light and removable structures, conceived in such a way as to transform the existing space into a theater of taste. Based on the binomial "food-culture", the architecture on the first floor stems from an ideation principle: redevelop one of the most beautiful historical markets in Italy by introducing systems of contemporary use aimed at grasping the needs of an increasingly varied and cultured public . However, this is not a work that can be confined to the bed of interior design, rather a protected architecture conceived on an urban scale where the lightness and brightness of the marvelous iron and cast iron carpentry of the nineteenth-century work has been emphasized through the use of simple and natural materials (wood, mats, ropes, terra cotta, pigmented cements) and flexible furnishings, furniture, as well as a series of large wicker and rush lamps that discreetly fill the huge market space. The architectural ensemble enhances the craft vocation of the shops, arranged, as along a street or a square, according to an ordered sequence that creates an "open" display system capable of allowing full visibility of the workshops and enjoyment by the audience of manual activity connected with food preparation. All the spaces of the shops, both for preparation and for administration and sale, as well as the areas intended for services, are designed to return, although each with its specific functional characteristics, a unitary and joyful image of the market. The first floor of the Central Market realizes in Florence a new stage of a European itinerary of historical and food and wine markets within an architecture that combines, with a completely Renaissance awareness, modernity and tradition. It is a work where the spirit of the past freed from the useless sense of nostalgia and from a harmful rent of position becomes current and available for the city. A city where architecture, together with its history and its values, wants to continue to be the protagonist. Are you interested in our solutions? CONTACT US SERIES / COLLECTION Déco Perlage / Hard Rock Beton 20MM Compact COLOR Gray / Cobalt / Mint / Crimson / Sand / Sage / Ginger ARCHITECT Marco Casamonti - Studio Archea COLLECTIONS NEWSLETTER Do you want to stay updated on the news of the Tagina world? SUBSCRIBE Fiscal code / VAT number / Registration number in the Perugia Company Register: 00166640540 - Registration in the Perugia REA: n. 99728 - Share capital: euro 7,761,000.00 fully paid up Tagina ceramiche d'Arte Spa via Flaminia - Zona Ind.le Nord 06023 Gualdo Tadino (PG) - Italy T. +39 075 91471 - F. +39 075 9141375 Toll-free number : 800177302 Services Area Web agency Websolute