ISERN SERRA CONCEALS RETRO COCKTAIL BAR BEHIND FOCACCERIA

Designed by Isern Serra for hospitality group Grupo La Confitería (led by Lito Baldovinos and Enric Rebordosa), Focacha is a speakeasy cocktail bar situated at Carrer Tuset 17 in Barcelona . The venue pays programmatic and aesthetic homage to the city’s 1960s and 1970s intellectual counterculture, the ‘gauche divine,’ and night-life figure Oriol Regàs, founder of the historic Bocaccio club. Concealed behind a traditional focacceria storefront designed by Pichy Glass, patrons access the venue through an operable refrigerator door, transitioning from a vernacular culinary retail interior into an immersive two-zone lounge modeled after Verner Panton’s 1968 Visiona installation.

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CHROMATIC bar interiors PAY HOMAGE TO VERNER PANTON’S VISIONA

The interior layout, developed by designer Isern Serra, divides into two distinct spatial volumes.…