Siaivo, Lviv – Ukraine

This is a coffee shop during the day and a bar at night. Made at the 100-year-old building of the former Prague bank. After the bank and before the bar there was a one-room apartment.
The team has found an authentic Austrian terrazzo floor with mosaic elements under the soviet tiles. Now this surface is proudly exposed. A lot of other elements such as a spiral staircase, WC tiles, and sink are rescued from the garbage and reused. They are a document of the era.
Designers resorted to closed seating not traditionally used in such cafes: window seats, a long table along the handrail length on the second floor, etc.
To make the interiors look timeless, the team made elements aged and used materials such as stainless steel and marble which look cool both new and old.
The idea was to create the impression that the place had been operating since the beginning of the 20th century as if neither the sign nor the interior had changed here. We deliberately wanted to ground ourselves here so that in an old Austrian house, there would be a proper-looking bar that fits the place: as if the local dandy had hung out here, and 100 years later, guys with tattoos came in, dusted off, and stood behind the bar.