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Victoria Beckham Teams Up with Westwing for Her First Tableware CollectionVictoria Beckham has spent years refining a recognisable design language, from sharply cut tailoring to the understated sensuality of her accessories. Now, she is taking that aesthetic somewhere new: the dinner table. Her first tableware collection, Serving Style, arrives in collaboration with Westwing on October 12, bringing fashion codes into the art of hosting.
You’ve Never Seen Food Like Alex Paganelli Captures ItSomewhere between photography, filmmaking and food styling, Alex Paganelli creates images that blur the line between reality and illusion. Working under the name DeadHungry, the chef-turned-creative has built a distinctive visual language that brings food into the worlds of fashion, art and a little bit of the surreal.
The Surreal Tableware Dalí Would Have LovedSomewhere between tableware and sculpture, The Bird Edit makes a strong case for taking the table a little less seriously. Created by table designer Omer Gilony and Portuguese house Tavares 1922, the collection brings shells, silver and bird-like forms together in a way that feels wonderfully out of place, in the best possible sense.
Why Everyone Is Talking About Chef Martina PuigvertAt 29, Martina Puigvert was named Michelin Young Chef Award 2024. But the interesting part of her story is not simply that she is the next generation of a famous restaurant. It is what she is doing with the place she inherited.
Inside Marchesi, the Historic Pasticceria Where Everything Is BeautifulFor two centuries, Marchesi has been doing something rather unusual in Milan: making pastry look almost too beautiful to eat. Founded in 1824, the historic pasticceria became a Milanese institution long before Prada acquired an 80% stake in 2014. Today, its pastel boxes, immaculate cakes and elegant cafés sit somewhere between confectionery, design and fashion.
The World’s Leading Brands Are Falling for Alice Malaret’s Food CreationsAlice Malaret started with a café in Paris and ended up creating edible worlds for some of fashion’s biggest names, from Miu Miu and Louis Vuitton to Bottega Veneta and Mugler. Her work sits somewhere between food, set design and art direction, turning ingredients into a visual language of their own.
Idan Gilony’s cocktail tableA serpentine table, citrus-toned drinks and a room made for celebration. For a charity gala in South Africa, the service became the architecture.
Claude Lalanne Created The Cutlery of Our DreamsWhat if the most beautiful thing on your dinner table was also a sculpture? Claude Lalanne had a particular talent for making the everyday feel slightly surreal, and her cutlery might be the most charming example of it.
Butter, shapedA Venus, a set of chess pieces, a candelabra, a cameo on toast. Food stylists and studios have started treating butter as a material for the table.
A La Petite Chaise: The Oldest Dining Room in ParisThere are restaurants in Paris that have history, and then there are restaurants that seem to have absorbed it into the walls. At La Petite Chaise, dinner comes with three centuries of stories, a famously old iron gate and an interior that looks less decorated than inherited.
The Jane’s New Home Is Where Raw Beauty Meets Refined TasteFor eleven years, The Jane was a military hospital chapel where the kitchen stood in place of the altar. Nick Bril has traded that setting for a harbour warehouse in Het Eilandje, with 28 seats and the stoves at the centre of the room, and the move has arrived with a second Michelin star under its belt.
4 Fashion Campaigns Where Eating Takes Centre StageFashion has always known how to set a table. From Jacquemus’ playful still lifes to Martin Parr’s saturated take on British garden-party culture, these four campaigns put food at the centre of the image, using it to say something about the worlds their brands inhabit.
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