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From the London restaurant which is as renowned for its boldly whimsical interiors as it is for its menu created by Pierre Gagnaire, this is a dazzling display of iconoclastic creativity.

Lavish full-color photography reveals color-saturated dining rooms, extravagant decoration in one giving way to austerity before turning once again to deco elegance.

Chef Pierre Gagnaire’s cuisine is similarly dizzying, tipping its hat to an abundance of influences without being dominated by any of them. Veal pie with endive, pineapple, and green pepper jam; pan-fried cuttlefish, girolles and red currants with prawn stock and shellfish bisque; chilled cream of carrot and honey soup with melon and white port sorbet and white peach.

All of likely impossible to recreate precisely anywhere else, but a daring example of imagination unleashed.

Large format (10” x 12.5”) flexibind in a slipcased. 448 pages. Color photographs throughout.