Berluti Manufactore - interior

The goal with this luxury shoe factory was to make a weightless-looking building that would stray away from a traditional industrial aesthetic; industrial looking objects such as visible ventilation chimneys, control booths or protruding machinery were deliberately erased from the design, rendering them invisible. The aim was to make it look and feel like a small workshop instead of a big factory; this vision comes from the brand's signature identity, which also permeates to other aspects of the design such as the prominence of untreated cedar wood on the facade that gives the project a more intimate and artisanal feeling while remaining sophisticated. On the inside, the wooden elements are made of beech instead as a nod to shoe trees, which are made of that kind of wood.