A kitchen and a house are not the same thing, and they are almost never built by the same person. BLANCHE, LUMIÈRES JéJé and JéJé Chaya were built by two.
Thirty-five years and fourteen Michelin-starred kitchens. Trained under Michel Guérard, Pierre Gagnaire and Alain Ducasse, then nearly two decades in London where L'étranger became "London's Best Kept Secret."
In Shanghai since 2015: SILEX, then BLANCHE on Wukang Road, LUMIÈRES JéJé, and JéJé Chaya. He draws every dish before he cooks it — a dish that cannot be drawn clearly cannot be cooked clearly.
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Everything the kitchen stands inside. Public relations, media relations, marketing and brand — deciding what a house means before the market decides for you, in two languages and two press cultures.
And the rarer part: she sits inside the creative process on every luxury collaboration these houses have taken — the narrative, the palette, the set, the choreography of an evening. Not an account manager translating a brief. An author of the thing itself.
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