Project Team
Architect: Six Degrees
La Vita Buona is a cafe-bar-deli-wine shop in the heart of the city, designed by Melbourne’s Six Degrees. The walls of the intimate, cellar-like bar are lined with hundreds of wines – all available for consumption on-premise, or take-away.
The client wanted a retail wine sales shop that could also offer wines by the glass and a snack, etc and
a small function space. The frontage to the city square was very small with the space opening out as
you enter into it. This shape is a difficult one, basically a “cave” as type, not what is usually desired for retail.
an awareness of the mouth of the cave/outside world for patrons. Putting some heavy masonary in this
little space was a bit counter intuitive, but it helps organize paths and circuits, offering protected spaces
to sit in, or a relaxed path to select a bottle of wine.
The narrow entrance incorporates an indoor-outdoor seating areas and this leads to a long, lean space with timber and tiled surfaces, recycled stained-glass features and a variety of seating options.