A House and the Name.

A house on Alexandru Macedonski Street (Craiova) becomes a restaurant. The restaurant needs a name. A comparison is made between the houses of a street and the volumes of a writer, et voila! Alexandru Macedonski (Romanian writer) Street has found its Excelsior (poetry volume written by A. Macedonski in 1895, the same year as the house was build).

Old and New.

At the time of taking over the project, the house had no more plaster on its walls and ceilings. We do not know exactly what the initial intention was, but having access to this authentic layer has led to the decision to keep the things as they are, especially if we are talking about good things – we considered having an element of structure and texture in the same time was a good thing, and used it as an opportunity.