Aesthetic Dining

The Art Restaurant Around the World

Aesthetic Dining: The Art Restaurant Around the World is the first book of its kind: a history of the art restaurant, where taste on the tongue meets taste in the mind. Beginning at Zürich's Kronenhalle and travelling from Provence to Cairo, Hong Kong to New York, it traces where artists gathered to eat, the restaurateurs who collected, and the collaborations between kitchen and studio.

It draws on new interviews with artists including Peter Blake, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Maggi Hambling, Julian Schnabel, and David Shrigley, and with chefs and restaurateurs including Massimo Bottura, Daniel Boulud, Marcus Samuelsson, and the late Leah Chase — on why they make, collect, and cook among art.

Above all, it is a love letter to restaurants: spaces of creativity, emotion, and the senses, shared at the table.

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