The café bar –O13 (ocean thirteen) is located in one of the most advantageous position in the city of Thessaloniki. In the city center in Aristotelous Square, under the gallery which was designed by Ernest Hébrard is facing the coast. It is viewing the Thermaikos Gulf, the port, the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and our thoughts to the “ocean”. Communicating vessels with the “water” being the basic element to this interaction, like the trends-the waves of art of the fashion of the design each season.
There are strong influences from the latest 50’s and 60’s. There are references in the modernism of 50’s and Eames from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and to the Italian finesse design of the 50’s-60’s and Gio Ponti, both in the forms and the use of the materials with the ive of affordable non pretentious luxury.
