Venice Biennale The New Zealand pavilion
Bill Culbert installs his light-themed works in the Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà for the Biennale
![From Bill Culbert's Front Door Out Back (2013)](/resource/bill-culbert-daylight-flotsam-venice-detail.jpg)
MC Escher inspires St Paul's installation
Alex de Rijke reprises John Pawson's staircase theme for this year's London Design Festival
![Endless Stair 2013 - Alex de Rijke](/resource/escher-stairs.jpg)
Colombian designer reinvents the Zippo lighter
Rodrigo Torres attempts 'sacrilegious' update with new Sushi lighter for Alessi - stand well back
![Sushi lighter - Rodrigo Torres for Alessi](/resource/lighteralessi.jpg)
Danish artist plans to gold plate death row body
Martin Martensen-Larsen plans to present the body of killer Travis Runnels in Lincoln Memorial piece
![Martin Martensen-Larsen's rendering of The Unifier](/resource/goldinmate-jpg.jpg)
Anri Sala pits two pianists against a DJ in Venice
The French national submission, Ravel Ravel Unravel, dwells on Europe's great triumphs and failures
![Still from Ravel Ravel Unravel (2013) - Anri Sala](/resource/630-biennale-venise-1-620x413.jpg)
Art of the Restaurateur wins best first book award
Nick Lander's wonderfully engaging read is given Jeremy Round Award for best first book by Guild of Food Writers
![Nick Lander](/resource/nicklander.jpg)
MoMA's Jackson Pollock mystery
Museum restoration team uncovers later brushstrokes and gains a greater understanding of the modern master
![MoMA's conservators and curators view One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock. Image courtesy of moma.org.](/resource/momapollacklead.jpg)
The water's lovely - and so is the diving board
Studio Zoppini's Rijeka Olympic centre in Croatia mirrors surrounding rocks that jut from the sea
![Diving Tower, Rijeka Olympic centre, Croatia - Studio Zoppini](/resource/divingtower-01.jpg)
The Los Angeles that might have been
Architecture and Design Museum show exhibits unbuilt plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lautner and Steven Holl
![Standing nearly 1,300 feet tall and built partly from magnesium, the Tower of Civilization would have soared over the grounds of the LA World's Fair. Photo courtesy of the Huntington Library](/resource/tower-of-civilization-copy.jpg)
Ai Weiwei's mother Gao Ying opens his Venice show
Gao Ying appears shaken at opening of Venice Biennale show S.A.C.R.E.D. depicting her son's incarceration
![Ai Weiwei's mother Gao Ying views her son's artwork S.A.C.R.E.D. at the Venice Biennale - photo by Marguerite Horner](/resource/aiweiweismum.jpg)
IDEO rethinks the future of packaging
Flowery pill dispensers and seedy cigarette butts are among the Californian design consultancy's new concepts
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Magnum and the dying art of darkroom printing
A look at the work of Pablio Inirio, the man who's printed Henri-Cartier-Bresson, René Burri and Dennis Stock
![Henri Cartier-Bresson at the March on Washington. Photo by Bob Henriques, printing annotations by Pablo Inirio](/resource/henricartierbressonbobhenriques.jpg)
Phoenix shower fans with Richard Prince works
French band crown Spanish festival set by dropping 42,000 Richard Prince-designed bank notes over the crowd
![Richard Prince's zero dollar bill](/resource/rpphoenixtwo-copy.jpg)
Alvar Aalto library reworked by JKMM
Seinäjoki in Finland boasts seven buildings by modernist master Alvar Aalto - JKMM has just extended one
![Seinäjoki Library - Alvar Aalto /JKMM](/resource/lib3.jpg)
James Franco goes Psycho for Pace Gallery show
Actor artist makes a pretty convincing Janet Leigh in Psycho Nacirema, a large-scale London installation
![Image from Psycho Nacirema copyright 2013, James Franco, courtesy Pace Gallery](/resource/psycho-nacirema.jpg)
Skydiving planned in abandoned Warsaw cement silo
Moko Architects have a hair-raising plan for Zeran's defunct warehouses and factories
![Diving and indoor skydiving centre - Moko Architects](/resource/diving-and-indoor-skydiving-centre-by-moko-architects-1-784.jpg)
Modernist LA brought to life in online exhibition
LA history profs curate the 70,000 photo archive of a local electrical firm, to tell the story of mid-century LA
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James Franco curates Kusama and Tuymans
The forthcoming London exhibition, Cinematic Visions, examines the dialogue between painting and film
![Alice Neel's Ian and Mary (1971)](/resource/neilmary.jpg)
Richard Meier honoured by Bisazza
Celebrated US architect has huge exhibition in Vicenza to tie in with 50th anniversary year
![Internal Time - Richard Meier for Bisazza](/resource/internaltime-richardmeierforbisazza.jpg)
Could wooden pallets house Parisian students?
Ex-grafitti artist and former Jean Nouvel assistant Stéphane Malka comes up with green solution to housing needs
![AME-LOT, Paris - Stéphane Malka](/resource/ame-lot-newpic.jpg)
The story behind the Whitney's new look
New look for New York museum draws inspiration from its chief curator's view of art history
![Experimental Jetset's new Whitney identity](/resource/chart.jpg)
Ai Weiwei first look at his new music video
The video offers an 'inch accurate' view of his prison cell, but the music is a less faithful rendering of 'heavy metal'
![Still from Ai Weiwei's Dumbass video](/resource/aiwhip-vi.jpg)
Venice Biennale The American Pavilion
Sculptor Sarah Sze promises accumulation of everyday materials to create gravity-defying sculptural environments
![The Triple Point of Water (2003) by Sarah Sze](/resource/triplepointofwater.jpg)
First UK solo show for surrealist Paul Delvaux
The Belgian artist and René Magritte confidant's New York exhibition is set to travel to London next month
![Paul Delvaux, L’Éloge de la mélancolie (1948)](/resource/paul-delvaux-l-e-loge-de-la-me-lancolie-1948.jpg)
Amazon to start selling fine art from this summer
Letter to NY galleries from its new business department invites them to "light snacks and refreshments" tomorrow
![The Amazon logo](/resource/amazon-logo.jpg)
Venice Biennale The Italian Pavilion
Vice Versa brings together 14 artists inspired by philosopher Giorgio Agamben's "diametrically linked concepts"
![Piero Golia, Untitled (Bus) (2008)](/resource/piero-golia.jpg)
The FBI department targeting stolen art
Art sales are up 50% since 2009 and so is global art theft - estimated at a staggering $6 billion a year
![Salvador Dali's Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio - stolen from a New York gallery last summer](/resource/dalistolen.jpg)
The quiet rise of the Polish art market
The Saatchi Gallery's Polish Art Now showcases a rising national scene, both culturally and economically
![Behind the wheel (2012) by Andrzej Cisowski](/resource/behind-the-wheel-by-andrzej-cisowski.jpg)
Is this Zaha Hadid's most futuristic design yet?
New Riyadh KAFD metro features skybridges and meshed Mashrabiya screens
![King Abdullah Financial District metro station, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Zaha Hadid](/resource/zahametro.jpg)
Fäviken's Magnus Nilsson reveals details of next book
Part recipe book, part travelogue, part historical foodie tract - new book will cover every aspect of Nordic cuisine
![Magnus in London earlier this year](/resource/faviken-breakfast-3.jpg)
Tracey Emin accuses her critics of sexism
"The press was cruel, they didn’t just dislike my work, they disliked me - my voice, the way I dress, the way I look, they wouldn’t have carried on that way if I were a man" she tells Vanity Fair interviewer Lauren Christensen
![Tracey Emin](/resource/traceyemincover.jpg)
Hugh Broughton Architects create ice station on skis
Halley Research Station in the Antarctic should escape the fate of others - crushed and buried under the snow
![Halley Research Station VI - Hugh Broughton Architects](/resource/1sam-burrell-halley-vi-winter-view.jpg)
Venice Biennale The Turkish Pavilion
Ali Kazma's multi-channel video work Resistance looks at how we try to change and control our bodies
![Ali Kazma filming Resistance (2013)](/resource/venedik-tattoo-620x414.jpg)
Latin American art - consider yourself primed
Pinta, the Latin American art fair, honours Argentinian painters Cesar Paternosto and Luis Tomasello next month
![Cesar Paternosto, Crescendo-Diminuendo (2012)](/resource/cesarpaternosto-paintinganarchitecture-620x414.jpg)
Rem Koolhaas and Bjarke Ingels compete in Miami
Rem Koolhaas's OMA and Bjarke Ingels’s BIG submit rival plans for The Miami Beach Convention Center
![BIG's Miami Beach Square](/resource/mbs-image-by-big-05-frontend.jpg)
See David Chang and Daniel Patterson in NYC
The star chefs are joined by Massimo Bottura, Alessandro Porcelli and Lisa Abend at our Cook It Raw launch
![Daniel Patterson (centre) and David Chang (back) forage in Finland with Cook It Raw co-founder Rene Redzepi (left)](/resource/cir-finland.jpg)
Swiss artist brings scooter to Venice
Valentin Carron will present "an elegant discussion on the complexity of defining sculpture" in The Swiss Pavilion
![Ciao n°4 (nero), (2012) by Valentin Carron](/resource/scooter-swisspavilion.jpg)
Counting the cost of Martin Scorsese
Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob recalls some intense conversations with Marty's agent
![Gilles Jacob and Martin Scorsese](/resource/jacobimage.jpg)
Genesis inspires Vatican's Biennale debut
The Holy See brings a creationist-themed, multimedia exhibition to the 55th Venice Biennale this June
![You (1986-7) by Lawrence Carroll](/resource/carroll-l-you.jpg)
Phaidon authors head up the Venice jury
We congratulate this year’s newly announced Venice Biennale jurists, many of whom are contributors to our books
![Venice Biennale jury president Jessica Morgan](/resource/jessica-morgan-2.jpg)
Ingo Maurer's table with no legs
Best known for his lighting, German designer branches out into furniture for first Established & Sons commission
![Floating Table - Ingo Maurer for Established & Sons](/resource/floating-table-by-ingo-maurer-for-established-and-sons-ss-1-1.jpg)
Dutch diner has American soul
Amsterdam School of Architecture meets 50s American diner in this new café from Derksen Windt Architecten
![Dutch Diner - Derksen Windt Architecten](/resource/dutchdiner.jpg)
Ai Weiwei - hairdresser, rocker, citizen journalist?
The Chinese contemporary artist turns his hand to hairdressing, heavy metal and street-brawl coverage
![Ai Weiwei - self portrait](/resource/ai-weiwei-portrait-press-page.jpg)
Dieter Rams 620 chair programme reissued by Vitsoe
If you're going to curl up with a copy of As Little Design as Possible what better chair to do it in?
![620 Chair Programme- designed by Dieter Rams for Vitsoe in 1962](/resource/vitsoe-re-engineers-the-620-chair-programme-with-dieter-rams-1-1.jpg)
Chris Burden brings meteorite (and Porsche) to NY
The Californian artist gets his first major exhibition in the US in over 25 years at The New Museum
![Chris Burden, 2010, midway through creating Metropolis II](/resource/chrisburden-2010.jpg)
Withdrawn Miami Banksy up for auction again
Originally painted on a Poundland wall in London, Slave Labour goes under the hammer (again) next month
![Slave Labour (2012) - Banksy](/resource/slavelabour-banksy.jpg)
Beijing island winery is shaped like an asterisk
Japanese architect Keiichiro Sako creates timber-clad winery on man-made lake outside Chinese capital
![Asterisk Winery, Beijing - Sako Architects](/resource/asterisk-winery-beijing-by-sako-architects-6.jpg)
Bruce Altshuler talks favourite shows and curators
The writer of our Biennials and Beyond book hosts lively debate at London Whitechapel Gallery
![Bruce Altshuler](/resource/h-altshulerbruce.jpg)
Frieze architects SO-IL land UC Davis Art Museum
"Curved glass walls and soaring canopy turns traditional museum model inside out," says University Chancellor
![The University of California, Davis, Art Museum - SO-IL](/resource/15-112.jpg)
Introducing the Where Chefs Eat app
Beautifully designed and exhaustively road-tested - the Where Chefs Eat app is released on Monday
![](/resource/wcescreen.jpg)
How MoMA restored Nam June Paik's TV piano
Cathode-ray and player-piano piece is either 'a conservation dream or nightmare' says MoMA expert
![Untitled (piano) (1993) by Nam June Paik](/resource/paik-piano1-620x397.jpg)
Forget the jet pack the Levitation bike is here
Michael Strain's 'levitating cycle' also boasts a wifi zone to limit those brief but pesky offline moments in your day
![Levitation bike - Michael Strain](/resource/render-0.jpg)
Maguy Le Coze wins Outstanding Restaurateur
French-born New Yorker receives James Beard award for her work at Le Bernardin which she opened in 1986
![Maguy Le Coze, from Le Bernardin. Image courtesy of Le Bernardin.](/resource/about-slide-maguy-lecozy-620x275.jpg)
Islamic Cemetery nominated for Aga Khan Award
Austrian practice Bernardo Bader Architects creates serene place of rest in the alpine village of Altech
![Islamic Cemetery Altach, Austria - Bernado Bader Architects](/resource/islamiccemeterybernadobaderarchitects.jpg)
Tino Sehgal reanimates Manga character at Frieze
Sehgal's interpretation of Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe's Ann Lee character comes to the New York art fair
![Ann Lee](/resource/ann-lee.jpg)
It's punk Jim, but not as we knew it
The Met's PUNK: From Chaos to Couture attempts to draw a straight line from the King's Road to Fifth Avenue
![Facsimile of the CBGB's toilets (minus the paddling pool of piss), New York circa 1975 Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art](/resource/25-gallery-view-facsimile-of-cbgb-bathroom-new-york-1975-1.jpg)
Saul Bass gets a Google Doodle
The great American graphic designer, born 93 years ago today, receives an appropriately animated Google tribute
![The Man With The Golden Arm poster (1955) by Saul Bass](/resource/mwtgabass.jpg)
How the Frieze art fair won over America
Dr Kathy Battista, director of contemporary art at Sotheby's Institute of Art NY, unpicks the art fair's US success
![Frieze New York](/resource/frieze2012.jpg)
Ethan and Thea's guide to surviving Frieze NY
New York's foremost art advisors give Phaidon the lowdown on how to do an art fair successfully
![Ethan Wagner and Thea Westreich Wagner](/resource/theaandethan.jpg)
Thomas Hirschhorn's Gramsci monument in NYC
The Swiss artist will pay tribute to the Italian political theorist in a South Bronx housing project
![Bataille Monument (2002) by Thomas Hirschhorn,
at Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany](/resource/316-t-hirschhorn-batilles.jpg)
Jeff Koons opens at Gagosian AND Zwirner this week
Heavyweight gallerists go head-to-head in NYC this Frieze week with shows from America's richest living artist
![Gazing Ball copyright Jeff Koons (2013) courtesy Zwirner Gallery](/resource/jk-exhibitions-crop2-600x600.jpg)
Henning Larsen designs Microsoft Danish HQ
Lyngby-Taarbæk complex foreshadows leading centre of knowledge and creativity in Northern Europe
![Microsoft HQ Copenhagen - Henning Larsen](/resource/microsoft-headquarters-near-copenhagen-02.jpg)
Vivienne Westwood revamps Virgin Atlantic uniforms
Old punk days mates Sir Richard Branson and Dame Vivienne Westwood team up for a new collaboration
![Vivienne Westwood's designs for Virgin Atlantic](/resource/vivandrich.jpg)
Tallest wooden building in Canada breaks ground
Apart from metal joinery and concrete foundations Michael Green's aptly named Wood Innovation Design Centre is six storeys of pure wood including the columns, beams and floor - even the elevator and stair core
![Wood Innovation Design Centre - Michael Green](/resource/michaelgreen.jpg)
Nice day for a white wedding
Hong Kong born Danny Cheng designs The White Chapel for upmarket nuptials
![The White Chapel - Danny Cheng](/resource/the-white-chapel-by-danny-cheng-discovery-bay-6.jpg)
Gordon Matta-Clark's art restaurant resurrected
Frieze recreates Gordon Matta-Clark's FOOD restaurant next week, with a different artist taking over each day
![Gordon Matta-Clark in FOOD in 1971](/resource/gordon-matta-clark-in-food-620x403.jpg)
Could IBM create the next star chef?
IT firm's artificial intelligence team approaches cookery as just another big data problem - with surprising results
![René Redzepi creates his Snowman dessert on Australian Masterchef. Beat that, Deep Blue](/resource/rene-snowman.jpg)
James Turrell on tour in the US this summer
The Californian artist marks his 70th birthday with five US exhibitions in New York, LA, Las Vegas and Houston
![Rendering of installation for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2012. Artificial and natural light. Rendering created by Andreas Tjeldflaat](/resource/ex-turrell-installation-620x504.jpg)
Grimshaw’s Queens Museum of Art nears completion
He joins Aymer Embury III, Daniel Chait and Rafael Viñoly who've all worked on the New York City Building
![Queens Museum of Art - Nicholas Grimshaw](/resource/grimshawphaidonpic2.jpg)
Peter Zumthor reimagines a 21st century LACMA
Pritzker Prize winner set to reveal his vision for the museum at new exhibition The Presence of the Past in June
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Mr Brainwash loses Sid Vicious appropriation case
Judge rules street artist Thierry Guetta's punk portraits infringe copyright of photographer, Dennis Morris
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Mystery girl in new National Portrait Gallery Show
Scandal '63 draws together portraits associated with The Profumo Affair, including a sketch of a mysterious witness
![Christine Keeler by Stephen Ward, pastel, c.1961 © National Portrait Gallery, London](/resource/keeler-ward.jpg)
Bouroullec brothers stage 15 year retrospective
Vast white tent-like structure in Paris is divided up with giant screens of their Algue ‘seaweed’
![Bouroullec Brothers at Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs](/resource/sceno-2-95e5a.jpg)
Martin Parr and Weegee head up Liverpool festival
Look/13 International Photography Festival pairs Martin Parr with Tom Wood and Weegee with August Sander
![Martin Parr, New Brighton (1983-1986), Merseyside, England](/resource/p198-new-brighton-i.jpg)
Why the Bienal Monterrey came to Mexico City
To mark its 20th anniversary, the Latin American art event takes its innovative works to the Mexican capital
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Mugaritz chef picks 50 Best winner
Chef Andoni Luis Aduriz selected El Celler de Can Roca for our Where Chef Eat book
![Chef Andoni Luis Aduriz recommended the World's 50 Best Restaurants winner in our Where Chefs Eat book](/resource/andoniaduriz-lead.jpg)
Andy Warhol - the disco years
Christie's new online auction offers us a great view into the artist's later, glitzier milieu
![After The Party (1979) by Andy Warhol](/resource/aftertheparty-i.jpg)
$36,750 - the price of dinner with Ferran Adrià
Anonymous online bidder snatches top lot in Sotheby's NY auction of elBulli wine list and assorted ephemera
![Ferran Adrià - do not seat him near a 'closetalker'](/resource/ferranadria.jpg)
RIBA honours India's modernist master
The British architectural body salutes the great Indian architect Charles Correa in new Indian season
![Kanchanjunga Apartments by Charles Correa](/resource/kanchanjunga-balcony.jpg)
Budweiser introduces new bow tie can
New nipped-in design is the result of a 16-step procedure (but there's .7 ounces less beer)
![Budweiser's new bowtie can](/resource/04-20-13-budweiserbowtie-1.jpg)
Cook It Raw chefs reveal philosophical inspirations
René Redzepi, Alex Atala, Albert Adrià and Daniel Patterson hold crowd rapt at Royal Geographical Society
![Alex Atala as photographed in Cook It Raw](/resource/cookitraw-event.jpg)
Donald Judd's home opens to the public in June
Three-year $23 million restoration effort by his children will recreate artist's living and working environment
![101 Spring, Donald Judd's former residence](/resource/donaldjuddshouse.jpg)
Tiny Faroe Islands’ get the BIG treatment
50,000 strong community gets a taste of starchitecture courtesy of Bjarke Ingels and his team
![Faroe Islands Marknagil Education Centre - BIG](/resource/big-faroe-islands-education-10.jpg)
Richard Prince wins next round of copyright battle
25 of the 30 works in his Canal Zone series are “transformative” say judges
![Left, a Rastafarian from Patrick Cariou's Yes, Rasta book; right, Richard Prince's Graduation from the Canal Zone series](/resource/princecariou.jpg)
Vince Frost brands Sydney’s historic houses
Designer comes up with a rebrand based around the ideal of 'living' that leaps off screen, bag and mug
![](/resource/newfrost-slm-logo569-0-1.jpg)
Is this the Britain of the future?
The Design Museum's forthcoming exhibition, United Micro Kingdoms, speculates on how we might end up living
![From UMK by Dunne & Raby](/resource/united-micro-kingdoms-1-620x413.jpg)
Keith Haring's political side reassessed in Paris show
Keith Haring: The Political Line draws together a huge array of works to emphasise Haring's serious obsessions
![](/resource/evenement2.jpg)
If Phaidon designed a skatepark it might look like this
Skateboarder Janne Saario moves into design in Finland - Aesthetically-minded Varial Kick Flippers rejoice
![Skatepark - Janne Saario](/resource/skatpark.jpg)
David Shrigley and Tino Sehgal on Turner Prize list
Firm Phaidon favourites feature in this year's show to be held in Derry-Londonderry
![](/resource/davidshrigleygolf.jpg)
René Burri on the BBC
The photographer discusses his career and new book, Impossible Reminiscences, with Front Row's John Wilson
![René Burri and John Wilson, London, 2013](/resource/reneburriandjohnwilson.jpg)
We just made a book with Daniel Patterson of Coi
Phaidon collaborates with the man single-handedly reinventing Californian cuisine - much excitement results
![](/resource/daniel-patterson.jpg)
See Yayoi Kusama's Splendour of Love in London
Victoria Miro's exhibition of seven new sculptures and twelve recent paintings by the artist opens tomorrow
![Splendour of Love (2013), by Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc., Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo and Victoria Miro, London © Yayoi Kusama. Photography © Stephen White](/resource/kusa812-splender-of-love-2013-a-opener.jpg)
The London designers' sofa for Eames' old firm
Industrial Facility's Wireframe Sofa is made by Herman Miller, better known for their chairs by Charles and Ray Eames
![The Wireframe Sofa by Industrial Facility for Herman Miller](/resource/ifhm-1.jpg)
Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey's dumb things
New show The Universal Addressibility of Dumb Things traces new technology's links to ancient beliefs
![Model of a cat to test reflexes, Science Museum](/resource/model-of-a-cat-to-test-refl.jpg)
Herzog & de Meuron elevate the beautiful game
Swiss architects break ground on Stade de Bordeaux - home to Euro 2016
![Stade de Bordeaux - Herzog & de Meuron](/resource/1311276590-367-ci-110718-002-pri-m.jpg)
Andy Warhol's former townhouse up for sale
Carnegie Hill studio and residence where he lived with his mother Julia for 15 years on the market for $5.8 million
![Andy Warhol's former residence, yours for $5.8 million](/resource/andywarholhouse.jpg)
Jeff Wall retrospective and talk
Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art exhibits the fine-art photographer alongside a symposium on 'Rooms'
![Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue (1999-2000) by Jeff Wall](/resource/jeffwall-invisibleman-opener.jpg)
Matisse's cutouts reassembled for the first time
Tate Modern plans the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the artist's snipped paper compositions
![The Snails (1953) by Henri Matisse](/resource/snail1953.jpg)
Inside Amazon by Ben Roberts
Prix Pictet nominated-photographer Ben Roberts captures the online retailer's massive UK "fulfillment centre"
![From Amazon Unpacked by Ben Roberts](/resource/benroberts-lead.jpg)
Who'd like dinner with Ferran Adrià?
Sotheby's auctions off items from the elBulli wine cellar and a very special offer: a night with the super chef himself
![Ferran Adrià](/resource/ferrannewpic.jpg)