Holzrausch

Description

Casele – Cucina e Bar del Sud embeds Neapolitan energy into the existing fabric of a former Munich butcher’s shop (Schlagbauer). The butcher-shop backbone remains visible, not overwritten but embraced and extended – as if the place had always been this way. Warm glazed tiles meet a coffered timber ceiling; existing stainless-steel and copper elements are retained and carried forward as a matter-of-fact material trace. The former butcher’s counter becomes the base of the wine bar; late at night, the very same spot turns into a DJ booth – dimmed light, visible speakers and vintage pieces lending the room an Italo-disco mood. At the core of the fit-out is the precise reassignment of functions: the former meat refrigerator becomes a wine cabinet, the old cold room turns into open wine storage. The former meat cold-storage area is transformed into a private room clad in dark mahogany – one that deliberately shuts out the day. Private dining rooms display sharp contrasts: a 1970s boardroom with ClassiCon furniture by Konstantin Grcic versus a pale-wood-panelled alpine Stube that leans unapologetically into cosiness. Art is not treated as decoration but as an active layer that keeps the space in motion: mirror works by Alexander Deubl, mixed-media pieces by Stefanie Seethaler, flash photographs by Dylan Don, and original old oil paintings from a turn-of-the-century Florentine villa. What defines the project is the friction – city versus south – carried by the existing structure.