Tarentum Caffe Bar | Design Limn
Tarentum Caffe Bar by Liu Bin

Tarentum Caffe Bar

Silver A' Design Award Winner 2022

Spatial symbolism within this hospitality environment operates through a carefully constructed dialogue between cultivation and nature, formality and organic spontaneity, creating an archetypal threshold space between everyday routine and elevated experience. The vertical fluted paneling references classical column traditions, evoking ancestral temple architecture while translating these associations into contemporary material language—columns here become walls, the sacred becomes secular yet retains ceremonial resonance appropriate to social gathering rituals. The abundant botanical installation functions symbolically as garden imagery, activating deep cultural associations with paradise, Eden, abundance, and regeneration that transcend specific religious traditions to address universal human longing for natural connection within constructed environments. The circular tables carry geometric symbolism of wholeness, community, and egalitarian gathering where no position claims hierarchical dominance—the round table archetype manifesting in intimate scale. White spherical pendants suspended overhead suggest celestial bodies, moons or planets providing gentle illumination from above, their cluster formation evoking organic growth patterns like cellular division or fruit clustering on branches. The color scheme operates through temperature symbolism: warm cream and ivory tones suggest nourishment, comfort, and domestic sanctuary, while cool gray-blue accents provide emotional grounding and contemplative pause. The multilingual text inscription functions as cultural bridge-making, acknowledging heritage while inviting cosmopolitan participation. The overall spatial narrative constructs a journey metaphor—from the linear architectural discipline of the fluted wall through to the abundant organic liberation of the botanical zone—suggesting transformation from constraint to flourishing, from urban to pastoral, from ordinary to elevated experience.

Tarentum is a place designed in Ancient Greek style with Greek food and whisky lounge. When night falls, it transforms into a whisky bar, where people can have a drink in a comfortable and private atmosphere. The facade of the interior space of the building is warm ivory-colored cement. The design is represented with gentle cream tones to make people feel relaxed. Gray leather sofas and blue satin cushions echo the blue tone of the windows, as if a touch of blue on the Mediterranean Sea. Gray-blue marble textured tables and blue velvet cotton seats give a special touch of delicate detail.