Artist Hilario Isola designs cheese shop La Fetta in Bagnolo Piemonte

Since 2021, the cheese shop La Fetta in Bagnolo Piemonte, designed by artist Hilario Isola in collaboration with SCEG Architetti and graphic design studio Elyron, has become a local attraction. The shop is adjacent to the Fit Milk dairy, run by Fabrizio and Valentina Turina, which has over 90 years of experience and focuses on high-nutrition cheeses from grass-fed milk. Isola, born in Turin in 1976, has long explored environmental art and landscape interpretation through sculpture and architecture. He used local and reused materials for La Fetta, including old wooden aging planks for walls, shelves, counter, and staircase, combined with stainless steel sheets. Outside, a totem stylizing a slice of cheese marks the entrance. Large ground-floor windows connect the sales area to the production lab and aging cellar. Upstairs, Elyron created an exhibition and educational space with a bookshelf of wooden tome forms displaying information about the dairy. Isola's recent exhibition "Rurale" at Guido Costa Projects in Turin and Galleria Valentina Bonomo in Rome addressed the dark sides of hyper-technological acceleration in agriculture.