Home cooking: New dining space takes to the skies

Paris – A new restaurant for high flyers brings art and cuisine together above the roofs of the city of lights. Nomiya, the restaurant that’s part of the Art Home project by Electrolux and Palais de Tokyo, is perched on top of the modern art museum, and housed in a specially constructed mobile unit – a minimal, glass-walled structure bearing a perforated metal sleeve – designed by artist Laurent Grasso and architect Pascal Grasso. Inside, there is room for a small lounge, a kitchen, and a table for 12, where culinary director Gilles Strassart and his team plan to serve a different menu every day.

Strassart, when he was general manager at the in-house restaurant of the Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, said his aim was to ‘bring art to the people, using food as the medium’. He’s at it again: early murmurs suggest diners at Nomiya will be offered such treats as foie gras marshmallows and langoustine floss.

The Art Home project brings to life key concepts for the hospitality industry, among them an increasing desire among consumers for an intimate dining experience where craft and innovation meet. Electrolux’s role in the collaboration is noteworthy, too: by sponsoring this imaginative dining concept, the home appliances brand positions itself for take-off among the growing number of Homedulgent consumers who find that home really is where the art is.

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