If Barbarella is the mother — Italian, sunny, festive, rooted in the Mediterranean — Donatella is the daughter who spent part of her life in Paris. Same blood, different register. More restrained, darker, more sophisticated. The same love for the long table, but wrapped in a private-club atmosphere with a French accent.

Donatella was the most far-reaching project fully executed by the studio: from concept to turnkey delivery, including demolition, construction, project management, and full procurement. The result is a space of total coherence, with no gaps between what was imagined and what was built.

The most iconic moment came from a client visit to LACMA in Los Angeles: they wanted a tribute to that moment that marked their family. The response was a six-meter mermaid suspended above the central booth. The women's restrooms, lined with iridescent mirror that shifts from pink to amber, and a vintage telephone that plays conversations in Italian when picked up, complete a project built to surprise on every visit.

The vintage telephone in the women's restroom is the detail that defines the project's philosophy: when you pick it up, you hear conversations in Italian. It has no practical function. It has something better — it creates a moment of discovery that no diner forgets or stops talking about. It is the kind of gesture that turns a space into a story, and a story into recommendations.