13 Bootleg
13 Bootleg is the new venue in downtown Palermo dedicated to tasting and selling distillates with an adjacent cigar room.
The idea is to offer a connoisseur setting to enjoy a good cigar and a brandy or a whisky chosen by a careful selection, in a welcoming environment that looks to the tradition of cigar American lounges of the early ’30s.
The place is both a shop during the day and it becomes a bar at evenings. This double role is underlined by two different entrances.
The small space only 58 square meters has a longitudinal development. Just after the entrance there is a large exhibition area : more than 350 types of spirits on shelves; at the center of this area a small table with 4 chairs offers a seat for tasting.
Here the light is filtered by an oak and plexiglas ceiling that allows to adjust the light.
Then we reach the counter, positioned at the center of the room in front of the second entrance, and enlightened by three hanging lamps in amber glass that spread a soft light.
At the end of the space, we find the cigar room separated by a glass wall. Here a simple decor of Chesterfield armchairs and few lamps welcoms the guests with a fine selection of cigars.
The choice of materials, expecially wood (with tobacco oak and black lacquered wood) and the leather wovens, together with lighting and few furnishing pieces is meant to evoke warm, vintage atmosphere.
