Creative team

Gabriele Chiave, Danilo Fabozzi, Giulia Zia

A dialogue between heritage and contemporary dining, shaping both the atmosphere and the culinary experience.
 

Set in a quiet village of central Italy, the L’Ho restaurant project emerges as a place shaped by careful making and shared traditions. Drawing on cultural memory and lived traditions, this interior project presents a dining experience informed by the past yet firmly grounded in the present. Its spaces reflect layers of shared history, where time-honoured crafts, rituals, and ways of living are thoughtfully carried forward and expressed through food and atmosphere.

A renovation where historic interiors are carefully reinterpreted for the present.

A dialogue between past and present: where tradition is renewed trough a modern lens.

L'Ho is the result of a renovation of a historic restaurant, reimagined with a contemporary sensibility while preserving the culinary heritage and cultural memory at its core. The project respects the traditions that shaped the space and its cuisine, translating them into a modern language that feels restrained, elegant, and enduring. Past and present meet here in quiet continuity, where timeless flavours, craftsmanship, and atmosphere are carefully preserved and thoughtfully renewed.

Exposed brick, dark wood, and leather form a warm, shadowed interior.

The bar defines the main entrance,
opening into a sequence of smaller dining spaces arranged throughout the interior.
 

A second room is conceived as a cabinet de curiosités, where time-worn objects, aromatic herbs, raw ingredients, and fragments of old recipes quietly narrate the culinary heritage of the place. The chef’s pass overlooks a lush garden characterised by both local and exotic plants, while three additional, more intimate rooms - featuring terrazzo floors and stucco finishes - offer further moments of retreat. Guided by shadow, warmth, and carefully measured light, these spaces reveal dark, tactile materials, softened illumination, and layered craftsmanship. Arched passages and curated objects evoke ritual and discovery, while restrained contemporary elements shape an intimate, sensorial dining experience rooted in cultural memory.

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