We Are Ona Enlists Carsten Höller for Latest Pop-Up
The German artist’s “Brutalisten” restaurant arrives in Paris.
Culinary studio We Are Ona has returned to Paris, bringing with it little bit of Stockholm.
For its latest pop-up, the studio collaborated with artist Carsten Höller to bring his Stockholm-based restaurant Brutalisten to the French capital, on the occasion of Art Basel.
As with all of We Are Ona’s pop-ups, the dining experience is truly immersive. The design of the space, which in the past has been created by the likes of Harry Nuriev and Willo Perron, is a hugely important part of setting the scene.
On this occasion, the team behind We Are Ona worked alongside Höller and Brutalisten to realise an entirely monochromatic space, where furniture and tableware was either black or white. The food and drink, however, was the exception.
In the case of the food and drink, this was largely based on Höller’s Brutalist Kitchen Manifesto. For this, the artist devised a so-called a “manual for eating and cooking brutalistically”, with the core principle being that each dish can only be made from one ingredient.
As-per the manifesto, food served at the pop-up followed suit.
“It very much sprung from my style of eating,” Höller told Hypebeast at the time of the restaurant opening. “My greatest food experiences come from simple and perfectly-cooked ingredients. This could be freshly-picked, sautéed wild mushrooms, recently-caught shellfish or a particular wild bird roast.”
The Brutalisten x We Are Ona pop-up was open in Paris until October 20. Find out more about We Are Ona in the dedicated episode of Hypebeast Visits.
