Italian restaurant interior design at Nobili Design begins with the cuisine, the guests you want to welcome back and the evening you want them to remember. Interior designer Gabriela Nechifor reads your space and your brief, then develops one concept for the dining room, the bar and the terrace, whether the Italian restaurant interior calls for a warm classic trattoria or a modern Italian line. The Italian restaurant decoration ideas below come from our own projects.

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Italian Restaurant Interior Design

Italian restaurant interior design with a lit glass wine wall, leather banquettes and olive treesView full size

Italian Restaurant Interior Ideas

An Italian restaurant interior works when a large dining room keeps the warmth of a trattoria. Our two Italian concepts show it with a lit wine wall in one and a stone fireplace with a vineyard terrace in the other.

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Restaurant · Modern classic · Luxury

Italian Restaurant Interior with a Lit Wine Wall

Italian restaurant interior design around a glass wine wall framed by walnut arches. Leather banquettes, cream armchairs and olive trees bring a 250 m² dining room to the scale of a trattoria.

Designed by Gabriela Nechifor, Nobili Design

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Restaurant · Modern classic · Luxury

Italian Restaurant Bar with Arched Glass Shelving

A marble bar with six leather stools and a lit back counter of arched glass shelving closes the Italian restaurant interior. Faceted glass pendants carry the same evening light from the tables to the bar.

Designed by Gabriela Nechifor, Nobili Design

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Restaurant · Classic · Luxury

Italian Restaurant Terrace Facing the Vineyards

Tall stone arches with glazed doors open the Tuscan dining room onto a covered terrace, where the same travertine floor runs to the balustrade under a reed pergola, facing the vineyards.

Designed by Gabriela Nechifor, Nobili Design

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Questions about Italian restaurant interior design

What makes an Italian restaurant interior design feel authentic?

Authenticity comes from the way the room is lived, not from decoration added on top. We set the scale of the tables, the light and the bar on the evening you serve, so a large room keeps the warmth of a trattoria, as in our Italian restaurant with a wine wall.

Classic trattoria or modern Italian restaurant: how is the line chosen?

The cuisine, the guests and the building decide. A Tuscan menu in a room with arches and beams asks for a classic line, while a city restaurant with the wine list at its heart can take a modern classic line in travertine, walnut and brass.

Which spaces does an Italian restaurant concept include?

Our Italian restaurant concepts cover the entrance and host stand, the dining room, the bar and, where there is one, the terrace. Each space is drawn in the same language, so the guest reads one restaurant from the door to the last table.

How does a wine wall work in an Italian restaurant interior?

A wine wall gives the dining room both light and a focal point across the room. In our 360 m² Italian concept the glass wine wall sits in walnut arches and is lit from within, so it becomes the warm background of every table.

How do we start an Italian restaurant interior design project?

Send us the plans of your restaurant, a few words about the cuisine and the guests you expect, and an approximate budget, so we can propose the right concept from the first conversation. Interior designer Gabriela Nechifor will review the space and suggest the direction of the concept.