Despite the Italian sounding name, Vienna-based Café Azzurro is by no means a country cuisine, but rather a successful combination of high-quality products (such as Demeter vegetables from the Dorothea training center, fish from Radeberg or Lake Millstatt, game from the restaurant's own hunt) and lovingly prepared delicious dishes that put you in a state of absolute well-being.

Wine plays the leading role. Restaurant manager and qualified sommelier Mara Feißt presents a careful selection of 150 different wines from small, sustainable wineries. The aim is to make drinking as accessible as possible, appealing to both lovers of classic wines and friends of alternative wines. Jonathan Koller mixes drinks that will be remembered.
Thanks to the Grieskirchner private brewery, there is also plenty of beer flowing, and kombucha and water kefir are fermented here.

At lunchtime, there are delicious but simple lunch dishes (think homemade pasta) and in the evening Café Azzurro surprises the guests with a carefully curated selection of dishes.

“The most important thing about this project is the people: That includes our wonderful guests, as well as every other person involved in this new place of culinary comfort.”

Nora Eros is Café Azzurro’s graphic designer, in close collaboration with Stephan and Mara she created the branding. The main inspiration have been laissez-faire gastronomic concepts in south of France and south-eurpoean countries.

The Kapellenhof is one of the largest wineries in Rheinhessen. The Schätzel family is the fifth generation of the family to successfully run the 18-hectare vineyard. The fascination and enthusiasm can be felt and seen in every move and every decision.

Studio Oeding designed a cuvée series of selected wines and the combination of joy and history that Kapellenhof associates with these wines and grape varieties. The design consists of various components that together capture the viewer’s attention.

The chosen colors are bold and positive, the illustrations are based on editions of previous generations of the Kapellenhof. The third component is humor, which is expressed with entertaining illustrations and unexpected image compositions that make everyone stop at the wine rack.

Dudler is used for nearly all text, except for the blurb which uses Barlow. Photography by Bernd Westphal, illustration by Beto Val.

Book cover by Linas Spurga Jr. for Kosmikomiksai, a Lithuanian edition of Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics published in 2022 by RARA. Calvino’s Cosmicomics is “a rollicking look at the formation of the universe, from the smallest microscopic detail to the infinite whole”.