The garden really holds a major place in the japanese culture ; it is like an utopian spot where you can project yourself through contemplation or meditation. It tries to show nature as it is, keeping some tricks secret. It emphasizes hiding and mistery with a curved geometry, imbalance and asymetri
cs connections. Thus, it differs from the Versaille’s garden straightness, build with Euclide’s rules and follows perspectives which shows some points of view. Those two different approaches of the garden let me thinking about an atypical junction between Japanese and French ways of thinking. The cooking chief Kei Kobayashi is called the « punk » chief. He cooks with french products like the meat game or the Vacherin in his 2 stars Michelin restaurant located at Les Halles. He is making use of japanese precision, seasoning, work and training approaches to design dishes like colorfull gardens. In those kind of courses, forms and tastes seem to be really unexpected added to combination of plants.
How to take advantage of these gardens and plants concepts in an architectural project ? The liberty of the chief’s cuisine is shown in the project like a dynamism which connects the different spots of the restaurant. Plants geometry is employed to develop the project; the top of the plants outline furniture and circulations.
This restaurant is a private creation laboratory for the chief, with its private room dedicated to meetings or simply a place where to think about a new french cuisine. It is an innovative story for the pavillon Dufour due to a big meeting between two different cultures.
Architecture, Interior Design & Decoration
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