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The Dining Room by Rockwell Group

Meet the Designer

Rockwell Group is a multidisciplinary architecture and design firm that balances creativity, innovation, and thought leadership with every undertaking. Headquartered in New York City, with offices in Los Angeles and Madrid, the firm was founded in 1984 by David Rockwell, FAIA, and merges performance and architecture to create extraordinary experiences and built environments across the globe. Today, David and the partners guide our 350-person firm to pursue the possibilities for connection and community. Honors include the AIANY President’s Award; a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award; a Tony Award for Best Scenic Design for She Loves Me; two Emmy Awards for the Oscars; the Presidential Design Award; the James Beard Foundation Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America; Architectural Digest’s AD100 Hall of Fame; Interior Design’s Icon Award and Hall of Fame; the Pratt Legends Award; inclusion in Wallpaper* Magazine’s USA 300 and Elle Decor's A-List.

The Concept

Rockwell Group reimagines The Dining Room through the lens of Naples, a city defined by striking contrasts—raw and refined, sacred and profane, exuberant and theatrical. Set within the oval room of Palazzo Donizetti, the space preserves grandeur while transforming it into a charged, performative setting shaped by placement, inversion, and ritual. Inspired by the Pompeian triclinium, where reclining replaced sitting and dining became a collective experience between leisure and performance, the room features sculptural seating, daybeds, poufs, and nesting tables that invite guests to recline, linger, and engage. Gold-toned metals, warm marbles, mineral hues, and oceanic blues evoke Naples’ volcanic spirit, creating a space poised between order and improvisation, realism and surrealism.

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