View from E. Voulgareos street

View from the square dedicated to Kostas Georgakis.

"EG" sign-entrance

Night view

View through the bar of the square dedicated to Kostas Georgakis.

Side view

Corfu daylife

Colors and materials

The red corian bench as an internal-external passage.

G entrance

Super-mirror inox sign and ’evergreen’ maple slats

Inside space

Maple slats floor-wall continuity.

"Where is the toilet?"

Sign, arch or exit?

Wood, mosaic and resin floor

Suspended refrigerated display.

The EverGreen bar is a poetical space where the light, the colours and the shapes speak of multiplicity, possibilities and diversities finally together under a wish that won’t ever be consumed.

The main concept it was to reject the traditional signboard, expanding its dimensions over the whole façade, thus, making it the logo of the bar: the E and G of the trade-name therefore become the threshold through which to move from a literal space (conceptual) to a physical one (architectonic).

The need to exalt the relationship with the customer over the road, as it’s used by the typical Greek town “coffees”, has been decisive to generate a strong sense of continuity the inner and the outer spaces; the coffee’s red “Corian” bancalina and stainless steel counter, windingly, move along the three dimensions from the inside and the outside, envelop and arrange together the duties of the chef, the barman and the customers and, finally, with this experience conquer the fourth dimension.

The release of the corner from any formal solution makes the connection between the street and the square even more immediate and allows the passer-by to perceive instantly the Kostas Georgakis dedicated sculpture.

Outdoor-indoor continuity, wall-pavement ambiguity, chromatic dynamism given from the multiplicity of strongly photo-sensitive materials, work together in the effort to give a wide spaciousness to the only 30 square meters at disposal where every single element has been designed in full.

The materials as the stainless steel, the glass, the orange resin and the vitreous “tesserae”, kindly tinge the bar with colours and evanescent images which change from time to time and belong to the surroundings and the old town; furthermore the many green shades are a gift to the infinite traces the Corfu’s landscape offers even though they are overrun by the unique “national green” widely used in the isle’s building (maybe a necessity of synthesis!).

The green colours of the “Evergreen” are the memories of Corfu, they are the colours that don’t want to be forever the same (it’s enough to enter the bar and look at the leaf-fall…), they are postcards, free thoughts, different subject and layer-by-layer painted emotions like as a need of living memories, meaningful traces, before everything get confused, everything get the same colour.

Year 2004

Work started in 2004

Work finished in 2004

Client EverGreen, Menelaos Koulouris

Status Completed works

Type Public Squares / Tourist Facilities / Bars/Cafés / Restaurants / Interior Design / Custom Furniture / Graphic Design / Art studios/workshops / Furniture design