When the architect of Mauro Sanna’s latest restaurant was
looking for lights for this project, nothing ordinary would do.

With the focus on fish for Olivomare’s menu, the challenge was to find something that was suitably piscine that would work with the restaurant’s clean and modern looks. The architect responsible for the interior design, Italy-based Pierluigi Piu remembered seeing Innermost’s Bigoli.

Result – one amazing organic light fitting reminiscent of jellyfish, or - as Sunday Times restaurant reviewer, A A Gill, put it - ‘white seaweed or a gang-bang of albino squid.’ The whole wriggling form acts as a great counterpoint to the regularity of the Escher like laser-cut repeat of flat fish on the main wall.’

The overall look of the place is far from the usual corny picture of a seafood restaurant, sleek and airy in feel, Olivomare is refreshingly free of driftwood and any of the usual clichéd maritime malarkey that often decorates fish restaurants.

It has received rave reviews for both its Sardinian food and its good looks from Elle Decoration and others. Recently including the Russian International Architectural Award 2007 which Pierluigi Piu won for ‘innovation in public spaces interiors’, with the design at Olivomare and Olivino's.

Olivomare: Mon-Sat: lunch, noon-2.30pm; dinner, 7pm-11pm.
10-12 Lower Belgrave Street, London SW1
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7730 9022