This is Mine Project's first showing at Art Basel Hong Kong as part of Discoveries, and with a suite of sculptural works by Hong Kong artist Tap Chan, the gallery does not disappoint. ![]() Take Eat me! Eat me! (Strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, matcha, taro, mint, bozi soda, mango) (2021), a kinetic sculpture of ice-cream cones 3D-printed to look as if they've fallen to the ground, scoop first, twisting cone up.Īrtist Profile Tap Chan View Bio, Works & Perhaps it's the familiarity of the image that's so striking an invocation for a time when emptied swimming pools were secret hide-outs for teenagers being teenagers and skaters being skaters.īorn in 1988, Chan's background in visual communications-he completed his BA on the subject at Birmingham City University in 2011-shows in a practice defined by a coy sense of play. ![]() You come to me on a summer breeze: Istanbul 2 (2021), for example, is a bird's-eye view of a pool that renders every single blue tile in dizzying detail. Rendered from the perspective of someone looking straight ahead from one end of an empty swimming pool, other works give different viewpoints. Chan Wai Lap at Gallery EXITĭreaming of Swimming Pools 1 (2022) is a new addition to Chan Wai Lap's series of colour pencil on paper works that treat empty swimming pools as readymade grids. The rest is for subscribers only.Chan Wai Lap, Dreaming of Swimming Pools 1 (2022). You have 84.58% of this article left to read. Place André-Malraux, Paris 1 st arrondissement. Price: €30 per person (with a hot drink). For hot drinks, there was a nice selection of teas from Dammann Frères or an organic, fair-trade coffee. Even if Julien Delhome isn't currently the most famous of pastry chefs, he has a real know-how and is cleverly creative.įirst, we had to choose a dessert among a chocolate and hazelnut creation, a fig tartlet, a saint-honoré and a seasonal fruit salad, before tasting a small assortment of well-made travel cakes (vanilla flan, pecan praline cookie and a creation of the moment). Hôtel du Louvre L’OFFICINE DU LOUVREįor our tasting, we settled in comfortably under a splendid glass roof in L'Officine du Louvre, a muffled, plant-filled bar that gives pride of place to climbing plants. 19 avenue Kléber, Paris 16 th arrondissement. Price: €58 per person (with a hot drink). It's one of the favorites of the selection we tried. We finish things off with a very tasty chocolate and black olive cookie. ![]() ![]() The two mini pastries are exceptional: a candied Meyer lemon, crunchy meringue and sour caviar, and, above all, the grilled Tahitian vanilla and caramelized tobacco leaf. In a trompe-l'œil setting, the savory canapés are served in the same style as appetizers in a gourmet restaurant (baba langoustine with lemongrass/coriander and Cremona shortbread with roasted pepper, black truffle, comté and dried duck scallop crisp and mandarin with saffron and caviar).įor the sweets, let's start with the fromage blanc foam and dulce de leche with callune honey, followed by a scone with vanilla sugar. In this magnificent Belle Epoque venue with its high ceilings and refined moldings, two-star chef David Bizet and his pastry chef Anne Coruble offer an admirable tea time where the savory options are as good as the sweet. The Peninsula Paris was established in 2014 on the site of a former hôtel particulier where George Gershwin was said to have composed the soundtrack to the film An American in Paris. Of course, the prices are sometimes high (from 22 to 75 euros), but each setting is exceptional and the quantity of food is often gargantuan! It's a bubble of pleasure and luxury that you can also share. While most of those featured in this selection are located in Parisian luxury hotels, it is because the trend is not yet very widespread elsewhere in France, and because the quality of what you will taste is unequaled. Tea time is not just an afternoon snack, but a real savory and sweet service accompanied by a hot drink. Our selection of 15 afternoon teas that are sure to be your cup of teaĪ verrine of scallops followed by a blueberry and yuzu Mont Blanc at the Burgundy in Paris or a Menton lemon tart accompanied by a hazelnut and barley Paris-Brest at the Maybourne Riviera in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin? To each his own treat!īy Gilbert Pytel Published on at 12h00, updated at 12h00 on May 29, 2022
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