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Artist in Focus

LI Fang

Interview

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Biography

Interview

Yan Pei Ming

Special Report

Niki de Saint Phalle
Louise Bourgeois
Marina Abramovic
Elke Krystufek
Shen Yuan
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Euliala Valldosera

People

Sanyu
Glenn Gloud

Exhibition Review

Born in the Streets
Vraoum!

Exhibition Express

So Sorry - Ai Wei Wei
Anish Kapoor
Pop Life: Art in a Material World
Caverne - Huang Yong Ping
Dress Code
Law - Zhang Ding
One Degree Separation
Sculpture on HKG Sea
John Baldessari

Design News

Nomiya - Laurent Grasso
Zaha Hadid Retrospective
Madeleine Vionnet
Editor's Note
Design News
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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