Rome, the eternal city, has so many architectural and cultural treasures that the Romans have no alternative but to integrate them in their everyday lives. This also applies to supermarkets like Carrefour Express in Via del Biscione. The format is aimed at both local residents and the ever-present tourists with an attractive range of snacks, drinks and groceries until late at night.

Contemporary retail lighting in historic building fabric with minimal intervention realised with lighting technology from BÄRO.

An unremarkable entrance leads to the remarkable salesrooms designed by the retail design studio F&F from Turin taking the strict preservation orders for the protection of historic buildings into account. The salesrooms extend a long way into the arched vaults and passages dating back to Roman times – because 2000 years ago this was the site of the Pompeius theatre. Lucullus, the legendary Roman general and epicure would be envious!