Porcini  1993
GALLERY 2

A small Italian restaurant on Halsted near Diversey. Porcini is a type of mushroom and the specialty here was northern Italian cuisine.

You are looking down from the main dining area.

The wall finished.

Tony claimed the column to the right was smuggled out of Macedonia and part of of Alexader the Great's sarcophagus. I didn't even know they had fiberglass then.

Looking up to the main dining room, the cabinet to the right is a wait station and the stairs to the left go down to the restrooms and futher back the prep-kitchen.

Now in kodachrome, the dining area has a large crown molding that washed a mural by Mike Angelo.

Mike laid on a scaffolding for hours sketching his nymphs and angles and claimed that it would give customers an appetite. He kept me company while I built the stairs. I felt I was around genius.

Stair detail

The stairs leading to the basement and restrooms to the left.

Inspired by a Felini movie I took this picture to symbolize the struggle between dark and light, or is that light and dark. Anyway it can mean anything you want it to.