Serena Confalonieri's illustrative menu design for Acanto at Milan Design Week

Serena Confalonieri signs the illustrations of the new Acanto’s menus, the restaurant located inside the historic Hotel Principe di Savoia, one of the most iconic 5-star hotels in Milan, Italy. Through her fresh and sophisticated style, the designer reinterprets the atmospheres and materials that distinguish the restaurant, creating fluid graphic compositions inspired by Chef Alessandro Buffolino’s dishes.

The four illustrations, dedicated respectively to the Breakfast menu, the Lunch&Dinner menu, the Wine List and the Specials menu, anticipate the guests’ experience.

Serena Confalonieri gives life to a coherent story, creating a common thread between the restaurant’s architecture, the menus and the gastronomic offer. The designs consist of a mix of shapes that recall the precious materials used for the interiors, such as the varieties of red, green, black and white marble, some of them enlightened by golden accents. Furthermore, in the illustrations, it is also possible to glimpse some details of the chef's dishes: the section of a pear, the shape of a waffle, and a strawberry. Playing with combinations of nuances and graceful curvilinear movements, Serena Confalonieri's drawings invite you to immerse yourself completely in the experience and let yourself be transported into a dreamy atmosphere.

The menus will be presented at the Milan Design Week 2023: for this event, the designer creates the installation Foodorama, inside Acanto restaurant dining room. A journey through the colours and textures of food, where the images of the new menu come to life through original food sculptures: a dreamlike mise-en-scene, where food becomes both decorative and structural material, and it’s the protagonist of an experience that involves all the senses.

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