New interior completed at the heart of historic Turin

Curtain rises on the new Ottica Gallery store: with the renovation of the Galleria Subalpina in Turin, an icon of the city’s social life since 1874, an opticians’ shop has found a new space in the premises of a historic bookshop. PAT., has teamed up again with the Gallery team to design the new space – after having curated the first store layout – combining Paul Rudolph’s brutalist suggestions with the Baroque and Renaissance references of the shop windows, then moving from the valorization of  ancient floor and spaces to put them in dialogue with a contemporary interior dominated by luminosity and a minimal yet lively color blocking.