Italian job

JACKIE BAR, HELSINKI

While Jackie’s pizza menu – by Antto Melasniemi, the inventive chef behind Helsinki stalwarts like Ateljé Finne and Putte’s – is a draw, it’s the DJ that reigns supreme here. Designed by Studio Joanna Laajisto and inspired by 1970s Italian lounge clubs, the bar has a sophisticated, moody aesthetic. Walls are a steely green, tabletops and flooring are marble, and furnishings are in banded sapele and walnut, the latter used to silken effect in Konstantin Grcic’s origami-esque ‘Medici’ chairs. The velvety brown curtains and segmented tan leather sofa running the length of one wall are Laajisto’s sole concessions to decadence in this austere yet inviting space that is part boutique hotel lobby, part midcentury Milanese bar. Iso Roobertinkatu 21, tel: 358.40 135 1782, jackie.fi