‘Aarne’ cocktail glass, £29,
by Göran Hongell, for Iittala,
from Skandium. ‘Tourron’
dinner plate, £25, by Jars;
‘Broadway’ fork, £10, by A for
Amara, both from Amara
For stockists, see page 184One beautiful evening in Venice, German
artist Katharina Grosse came across a small
restaurant called Alla Vedova (at the widow’s).
Thinking immediately of Emilio Vedova,
the late Venetian painter who had seen
abstraction as a gateway to political freedom,
Grosse imagined being invited to his table.
‘We had a lot of Venetian specialities that
night, but nothing was like the dark purple-
black inky, velvety linguine.’ The aftermath
bore a delightful resemblance to Vedova’s
work – energetic, expressive brushstrokes on
largely monochrome canvases. The linguine
‘left traces everywhere on the plate, the
paper tablecloth, my tongue and my teeth,’
recalls Grosse. ‘Eating squid ink pasta is
as if biting into the sea at night.’
For details of Grosse’s upcoming solo show at
the Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, turn to page- For Grosse’s recipe, visit Wallpaper.com ∫
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