Dine At Il Totano, A Restaurant Reminiscent Of The Amalfi Coast

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For the main dining room at Il Totano restaurant in downtown Manhattan, Sasha Bikoff Interior Design channeled coastal Italy through 60-inch-wide basketlike rattan ceiling fixtures from Visual Comfort, Maharam’s sunset-toned felt banquette upholstery, and grotto-inspired wall paint in a custom limewash finish conceived with Little Greene.

It was 2018 when Sasha Bikoff made a splash at her first ever Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse in New York, turning the staid spiral stairway into a vivid and memorable journey of chromatic pattern play. Since that, her residential practice took off—and, more recently, so has her commercial work, as witnessed in Il Totano, located a couple dozen blocks south of that fateful showhouse.

The 1,900-square-foot, 85-seat restaurant is an ode to all things southern Italian, from the seafood-focused cuisine (chef Harold Dieterle is of Sicilian heritage; il totano means flying squid) to the décor, its luminous, saturated palette inspired by the “sunset-colored beach umbrellas, terra-cotta ceramics, and calypso-blue grottos,” Bikoff admires on her frequent visits to the Amalfi Coast. Among the highlights are the dining room’s massive rattan light fixtures reminiscent of fishing baskets, the restroom’s octopus-spangled wallpaper, and the bar’s lemon-yellow table lamps, fittingly sourced from Flos.

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Dine At Il Totano, A Restaurant Reminiscent Of The Amalfi Coast

For the main dining room at Il Totano restaurant in downtown Manhattan, Sasha Bikoff Interior Design channeled coastal Italy through 60-inch-wide basketlike rattan ceiling fixtures from Visual Comfort, Maharam’s sunset-toned felt banquette upholstery, and grotto-inspired wall paint in a custom limewash finish conceived with Little Greene.

Dine At Il Totano, A Restaurant Reminiscent Of The Amalfi Coast

The bar’s Marcel Breuer Cesca stools and chairs, Bellhop table lamps by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, and custom sconces in alabaster-esque resin.

Dine At Il Totano, A Restaurant Reminiscent Of The Amalfi Coast

This dining area is reminiscent of sunset-colored beach umbrellas that are seen on the Amalfi Coast.

Dine At Il Totano, A Restaurant Reminiscent Of The Amalfi Coast

All branding and custom dishware also by Bikoff.

Dine At Il Totano, A Restaurant Reminiscent Of The Amalfi Coast

A restroom’s Etsy-sourced mirror and Octopussy wallpaper from Voutsa.

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