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FICHA TÉCNICA/DATA SHEET
Pelayo Gastro Trinquet
Valencia, España. Spain.
Proyecto de interiorismo/ Interior design
Project: Carlos Serra para Mercader
de Indias.
Empresas proveedoras/ Supplier
Companies
Sillería/ Suppliers: Capdell.
Bancos tapizados/ Upholstered countertops:
Missana.
Taburetes/ Stools: Acomodarte.
Mesas/ Tables: Andrew World.
Revestimientos cerámicos/ Ceramic coatings:
Porcelanosa.
Mármoles/ Marbles: Porcelanosa.
Carpintería/ Carpentry: Mercader de Indias.
Iluminación/ Lighting: Flos.
blanco en los volúmenes que emergen retranqueando
el espacio, en las mesas de mármol
macael y en la misma luminosidad con que ha
logrado dotar al local.
Revalorizando el pasado
Serra ha sacado a la luz elementos ocultos que
hoy revalorizan el lugar: un muro de ladrillo
macizo con huellas de antiguos arcos y una espectacular
estructura de cubierta, con grandes
vigas de madera, que ha retroiluminado resaltando
el valor de este elemento arquitectónico
tradicional y centenario.
Y desde el muro, emerge con fuerza el elemento
que se convertirá sin duda en icono de la
sala: una gran mano de jugador, con sus protecciones
y su pelota, modelada en vareta, una
técnica tradicional de los artistas falleros, hoy
reivindicada, mediante la que se ejecutaba la
estructura de los ninots con finas varillas de
madera que se iban curvando para adquirir las
formas deseadas. A esta gran mano, obra del
artista fallero Manolo García, le siguen, a lo largo
del muro, las marcas numéricas del juego
en trinquet.
Acotar con alturas
El proyecto está concebido en dos alturas que
acotan la zona del restaurante y la diferencian
de la zona de barra y entrada al trinquet.
La barra, de grandes dimensiones, hace un
nuevo guiño a la cultura valenciana. Los taburetes
reproducen en su respaldo tapizado
garzas y motivos vegetales propios de La Albufera,
la gran laguna costera emblemática para
la ciudad.
Junto a ella, la entrada al trinquet queda delimitada
por la recreación de una caseta antigua
de venta de entradas, en madera de roble teñida
en color piedra, que rememora los antiguos
días de partida en un trinquet que lleva
150 años jugando a la pelota y hoy actualiza
su imagen con un restaurante empapado de su
historia, su cultura y la de su ciudad.
The Valencian ball-game is a traditional sport,
where two or more adversaries form two teams
that either face each other or a wall and compete
by hitting a ball with the open hand, which
is protected by light support fabrics. One of the
places where the game takes place is on a ‘trinquet’,
a court specifically created for the game.
Carlos Serra has turned this space into a restaurant
as a tribute to this thousand-year
old game. Blue, red and white are the colors
of the ‘joc de pilota’. Blue, red and white
colours splash the furniture and the equipment
in the Gastro Trinquet. Blue on the
velvet counter-tops, on the seating, on the hanging
shelves of the bar, on the enameled ceramic
coatings that set off the partitions, on the
metal-casted columns ... Red on the table-legs,
on the auxiliary furniture, in the glass cabinet ...
And white in the large areas that envelop the
entire space, on the macael marble tables and
which with the same luminosity characterize
the premises.
Revaluing the past
Serra has brought to light hidden elements
that today revalue the premises: a solid
brick wall with traces of ancient arches and
a spectacular roof structure, with large wooden
beams, whose backlights highlight the value
of this traditional and hundred-year old architectural
element.
And from the wall there emerges with much
strength the element that will undoubetdly
become the icon within the the room: a huge
hand of a player, with its protections and ball,
modelled in the ‘vareta’ style, a tradional technique
employed by the ‘falleros’ artisans,
today vindicated, and which is used to create
the structure where the ‘ninots’ ( characters )
made of fine wooden rods are bent to achieve
the desired shape. Together with this huge
hand, a work by the fine fallero artist, Manolo
García, the scores of a game in a ‘trinquet’ are
displayed all along the wall.
Limiting by heights
The project is conceived in two heights that delimit
the restaurant area and differentiate it from
the bar and the entrance area to the ‘trinquet’.
The bar, a large-sized one, makes a gesture
towards the culture of Valencia.
The stools reproduce on their upholstered
backs herons and plant motifs typical of La
Albufera, the great coastal lagoon that is emblematic
of the city.
Alongside the restaurant, the entrance to the
trinquet is delimited by the recreation of an
old ticket booth, made of oak wood dyed in
stone colour, recalling the old days of a trinquet
that has housed the playing of the ball game
over 150 years and which today has updated its
image with a restaurant steeped in the history,
the culture of its city.