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Nomiya - Laurent Grasso
Artist : Laurent Grasso Architect: Pascal Grasso Location : Palais de Tokyo Paris, France Structure / facade engineer : ARCORA Project Area: 63 sqm Project year: 2009 Photograph: Kleinefenn
Nomiya is an artistic project by Laurent Grasso with the collaboration of the architect Pascal Grasso. This is a temporary, transportable restaurant on the roof of Le Palais de Tokyo museum in Paris. The restaurant takes its name, Nomiya, from a very small restaurant in Japan. The structure features a dining room for twelve people with a panoramic view over the Seine and the Eiffel tower. The restaurant comprises a glass cabin and a perforated metal screen covering the central cooking area.

The 18 metre-long structure was part constructed in the Cherbourg boatyard in northern France and transported to Paris in two parts, where it was assembled on the roof of Le Palais de Tokyo. Coloured LED lighting is placed between the metal skin and the glass core. White Corian furniture populates the dining room.

Replacing the museum’s last installation piece, the one-room hotel Everland, Nomiya is considered a dining experience where preparation and eating is viewed as performance art, rather than just a restaurant. “I don’t care about making a restaurant,” Laurent Grasso told the New York Times, “Creating this experience, on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo, with interesting architecture and the creativity of a chef – that’s not a restaurant. It’s a work of a art." Like so many other works of art, the Nomiya experience is also a rarity. The 24-ton glass structure is the size of a shipping container, and offers just one table, which seats 12 guests at a time. The restaurant will be in place for just one year, and books a month in advance. Reservations can only be made via the Nomiya project’s website, starting at 10:00AM each morning.

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