Starting life with one pizza baker and one wood oven, Da Portare VIA (who claim to make the best wood oven pizzas in town), have recently opened their eighth branch; taking the authentic tastes of Italy to the Dutch city of Zwolle.
![Da Portare VIA Zwolle Pizzeria by Studio Modijefsky](https://www.we-heart.com/upload-images/daportareviazwollesmall.jpg)
To celebrate their latest restaurant, the pizza makers thought a rebrand was in order and tasked Studio Modijefsky to create a unique interior, something that would complement their new look. Renaming the company a simpler VIA, the studio also designed a new spatial identity with a strong design language that can be translated to each new location.
The Zwolle eatery is located in an old building with an eye-catching façade, high ceilings and perfect lighting. Studio Modijefsky emphasised the height of the ceilings using large frames, angled forward to decorate the walls (as well as the pizza menus); whilst a coloured steel structure hangs from the ceiling supplying light to the tables beneath it.
Guests can enjoy subtle links to Italian décor — the black and white tiles at the foot of the bar, and aperitif table a perfect example — as they devour the best pizza in town whilst sipping on negronis and watching the Vespas whizz by. (No promises on that last one.)
![Da Portare VIA Zwolle](https://www.we-heart.com/upload-images/daportareviazwolle2.jpg)
![Da Portare VIA Zwolle](https://www.we-heart.com/upload-images/daportareviazwolle3.jpg)
![Da Portare VIA Zwolle Pizzeria by Studio Modijefsky](https://www.we-heart.com/upload-images/daportareviazwolle4.jpg)
![Da Portare VIA Zwolle](https://www.we-heart.com/upload-images/daportareviazwolle5.jpg)
![Da Portare VIA Zwolle](https://www.we-heart.com/upload-images/daportareviazwolle6.jpg)
![Da Portare VIA Zwolle](https://www.we-heart.com/upload-images/daportareviazwolle7.jpg)
![Da Portare VIA Zwolle](https://www.we-heart.com/upload-images/daportareviazwolle8.jpg)
![Da Portare VIA Zwolle Pizzeria by Studio Modijefsky](https://www.we-heart.com/upload-images/daportareviazwolle9.jpg)
![Da Portare VIA Zwolle](https://www.we-heart.com/upload-images/daportareviazwolle10.jpg)
![Da Portare VIA Zwolle](https://www.we-heart.com/upload-images/daportareviazwolle11.jpg)
Photography, Maarten Willemstein