Lucca Restaurant

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Bricble delivered a 45-piece millwork and assembly package for the full redesign of Lucca in Kyiv, Ukraine.

The 431 m² restaurant project is located at 11 Solomenska St, designed by YOD Group, the project rethinks Italian dining traditions through a contemporary material language of European oak, honed marble, woven rattan, and Mutina ceramic tile. Bricble's scope covered both the ground-floor dining and children's zones and the mezzanine level: curved service bars, a host stand, custom booth seating, freestanding planter and glass partitions, an overhead bar gantry, and a carved Pinocchio bathroom fixture.

The millwork perfectly translates our vision of contemporary Italian lightness with absolute precision

The Central Challenge

Every major millwork element in this project had to reconcile two opposing demands: commercial-grade operational loads concealed inside forms designed to read as light and thin. Undercounter refrigeration units required flush integration at ±1 mm tolerance within curved geometric casework. POS wiring and power had to route through freestanding host stands with no visible conduit. Cantilevered wooden drawer units needed to hang from thin-profile metal room divider frames without deflection. The design intent, set by YOD Group, depended on this tension. If the fabrication telegraphed the weight it was carrying, the spatial effect collapsed.

Main dining room: CNC-milled European oak veneer cladding wraps the curved service bar beneath the arched metal canopy
Flush-mounted commercial refrigeration fitted within the curved European oak service bar casework

Signature Element: The Curved Service Bars

The geometric-clad service bars and host stands anchor the restaurant's material identity. The cladding is European oak veneer applied over CNC-milled curved plywood substrates. Continuous pattern-matching around tight corner radii was achieved through precise CNC routing and hand-finished book-matched veneering. No steam bending was required. The geometric motif repeats across the main service bar, coffee bar island, and entry host stand, maintaining pattern continuity at every transition.

Geometric European oak cladding continuing around a tight radius at the bar station, pattern unbroken

Coordination with refrigeration, MEP, and metal fabrication trades was managed through detailed shop drawings and on-site prototype fitting. The curved casework encloses commercial refrigeration units at ±1 mm tolerance with integrated ventilation channels. No field adjustments were needed at install.

Host stand at the entry sequence with concealed POS wiring routed through the freestanding curved millwork

Supporting Scope

Custom booth seating lines the main dining aisle, pairing curved European oak frames with taut woven rattan back panels. Metal aisle railings anchor directly through the top rail of the booth frames, requiring internal blocking engineered to resist shear forces from the handrail.

Custom booth seating with rattan panels and integrated metal aisle railings leading toward the Venetian plaster niche

Freestanding room dividers combine vertically stacked Mutina Celosia ceramic tile bases, woven rattan planter boxes, and fluted glass panels within a single thin-profile metal frame. Each divider integrates concealed LED strip lighting beneath the suspended planter and supports a cantilevered wooden drawer unit with leather pulls, functioning as a staff service station.

Freestanding divider: ceramic tile base, rattan planter with concealed LED, fluted glass screen, cantilevered drawer unit

A Considered Detail

In the restroom, a carved wooden Pinocchio figure houses the faucet fixture. All plumbing and water delivery are concealed within the figurine, routed through a thick solid oak countertop with a matte sealer finish. It is a small piece, but it required custom internal piping and waterproofing within a non-standard material housing. The detail reflects the same discipline applied at the scale of the service bars: function fully integrated, structure invisible.

Carved Pinocchio faucet fixture with concealed plumbing, mounted on solid oak countertop

Execution

Bricble's involvement spanned approximately six months. Design development began in late 2019, followed by six weeks of shop drawings, ten weeks of fabrication, and eight weeks of installation for Lucca's 2020 opening. The restaurant owner noted that the custom bars and booths "immediately made the space feel warm, functional, and family-friendly from day one.

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