Marchesi 1824 Marks Prada Galleria With Architecture-Inspired Pastries

The official announcement links the products to the opening of Pradasphere, the permanent exhibition devoted to Prada’s history and creative world, and the project’s new spaces. Marchesi’s existing café above the Prada menswear boutique forms the pastry and hospitality component of that wider destination.

A landmark interpreted through pastry Marchesi 1824 Prada Galleria creations. The product photographs show a chocolate-coloured miniature structure with arched openings and a pale decorated biscuit shaped like an architectural facade.

Each makes the surrounding Galleria recognisable at the scale of an individual pastry-shop purchase. The café photographs place those creations within Marchesi’s established interior of green upholstery, display cabinets and patterned surfaces.

The launch adds a site-specific product story to an existing hospitality setting, rather than introducing a separate café format. Hospitality within Prada’s historic address Prada Galleria brings fashion, art, culture and hospitality together at the location where Mario Prada founded Fratelli Prada in 1913…