Acqua di Parma

Designed by Il Prisma, the new workplace provides environments where the entire brand and product experience unfolds through rituals to be discovered space by space. The workspace features a central courtyard, sitting room and large open spaces available for bookings, alternating flexibly with more confidential meeting rooms and areas designed for individual concentration. From a welcome ritual to the one of passing down the brand’s stories. Followed by interactive tools and a characteristic fragrance table. The design concept for Acqua di Parma’s new home is focused on the beauty ritual as the essence of work, creating an immersive experience of the place to evoke the beauty of Italian lifestyle. An experience with a hint of surprise and joy – like when you unwrap a gift. This is precisely the gesture that inspires the design concept called “Unwrapping the Acqua di Parma rituals”. The welcome ritual greets visitors upon entering the reception and consists of a series of gestures tailored to make them feel at home, while guiding them on a journey to discover the brand and its products – thanks also to the use of interactive tools such as fragrance finder. Other rituals are designed for moments of socialization, collaboration, sharing. Set in the area dedicated to the brand’s most immersive experience, they reveal aspects of corporate culture and workers’ life. The showroom with the distinctive fragrance table—where raw materials turn into a finished and perfect product—is the area in which the brand experience gets more immersive. The ritual’s experience proceeds in a space which feels like strolling amid the city’s store windows. A fluid and dynamic environment recreates the beauty of Italian architectural and urban—but also natural—landscape, thanks to such elements as light, heat, citrus scents characterizing both the design and look-and-feel of the space. The ritual of passing down the brand’s stories translates into a space imagined as a living room for hosting talks and events. Inside, you can taste some lifestyle-related moments, characterized by sunny atmospheres of the Italian veranda. A space that celebrates, on an aesthetic and experiential level, the innate Italian beauty and talks about the link to local roots. The portico and the central square with, in the middle, a large lemon tree—symbol of the brand—become the cornerstone of the entire building. A place where to live the conviviality ritual, which encloses the beauty of being together and exchanging ideas – Acqua di Parma’s true essence. Added value Il Prisma designed workspaces that embrace and celebrate the brand’s unique rituals, generating an immersive experience of the place to evoke the beauty of Italian lifestyle. A social initiative project has been developed with two local realities, a cooperative and a social association, to create a positive impact in the neighborhood. Particular care has been taken over energy saving, with solar panels on the roof supplying most of the electricity used in the building and a recycling strategy during construction site.