From the archive · Gourmet · 5 June 2012

Gourmet: Les Grandes Tables de Lile

A restaurant-bar-open-air café positioned on Île Seguin in the middle of a temporary garden whilst waiting for the architect Jean Nouvels macro project to be implemented, Les Grandes Tables de Lile is a place to meet, for haute cuisine and why not even parties to accompany the reconstruction of this island steeped in history. The project is an architectural hybridization between an agricultural greenhouse, a barge and a timer-frame house. Modelled after a large wood fibre box suspended in a scaffold structure from which freight containers are hanging, all encompassed beneath a transparent umbrella.

An eye-catching iconoclastic assemblage with an area of 300m2 to accommodate 120 covers and the cuisine of Arnaud Daguin, a chef with stars to his name. Constructed from scaffolding, wood fibre panels and containers, according to the principle dear to the 1024 duo, the restaurant can be promptly extended by video and lighting effects by changing with the assistance of mapping for the duration of a party or a particular event.

Who thought that scaffolding and shipping containers could have multiple uses? These containers helped build a café on an island on the Seine in Paris. The unique concept was brought to light by Paris studio 1024 Architecture. The café is known for the haute cuisine it serves and for the brilliant parties that it hosts. The café is a combination between a timber frame house, a greenhouse and a barge covered beneath a see-through umbrella. It seems incorporated in the scaffold structure. The café has an area of 300m2 and the chef that was hired to prepare the extravagant types of food is Arnaud Daguin. The materials, wood fibre panels, containers and scaffolding parts.