Often, the container in your hands conditions your approach to plating. Order Chinese take away, or anything from Deliveroo, take it out of the box, and serve it on a plate from the Passifolia collection in search of balance. Having delegated the task of cooking to the internet now more than ever, could a table arrangement be what we really offer visiting guests?īenoit-Pierre: So content is counterbalanced by the container? I think it’s always a game of balance, like everything in the kitchen, even when we construct a table set. When I saw the collection, I imagined a luxurious table, arranged with these precious porcelain wares, and food that came from a delivery service. For example, the Chinese - who receive guests less than we do - today are beginning to organize dinners and gather around the table in typical European fashion. The Orient and Asia have greatly influenced French and European culture and viceversa. ![]() The kitchen has changed locally, along with its customs and traditions. And it’s interesting because with Nathalie, we’ve developed an entire series of bowls, forms, and pieces typically found in Asia, which today you’ll often find on European tables. Hermès has a widely varied clientele when it comes to age and geographic location: are there differences in the way we use - and purchase - a porcelain set? How do you respond to those differences?īenoit-Pierre: There are great differences, but at the same time, there’s also a form of universality that’s taking root. Even here, there are soloists within the orchestra. Simultaneously precious and informal, their maximum expression can be found in the smallest objects: when held in the hands, they become micro universes overflowing with details crafted by a delicate hand and illuminated with a subtle hand-painted gold lining. Directing the orchestra is set designer Hervé Sauvage, who in playing with lights and sounds, lures us into a jungle of porcelain plates - 30 pieces in total - each one different from the last. The first orchestra I come across is that of Gaîté Lyrique, an old Parisian theater in the Boulevard Sébastopol area, transformed into a center for digital art and modern music, and which, for the occasion, is curated as a scenographic experience anticipating and embracing Passifolia. It’s between this unabashed individuality and collective choreography that things get interesting. ![]() “To create a set of dishes, you need a soloist, but also an orchestra,” explains Benoit-Pierre Emery, art director of Art-de-la-Table Hermès, showing me the new collection of porcelain plates for the Passifolia table presented in Paris at the most recent edition of Maison&Objet 2020.
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