Three Layer Cake

More about Hervé... 

What dessert best describes your design style?  How has it changed over the past five years?  What would you like it to be in five years? Baba au rhum.  Round, generous and makes your head turn (with the alcohol!).  I hope my style has changed in a good way and I hope in 5 years it will be different (better) with different propositions, like from interior designers, shops, and more... 

The first thing you notice in a restaurant?  The space (place for people) and the style of the decoration (ambiance) and the light. 

Eating what food brings back the best memories?  Dishes that my grandmother made for me or dishes I ate while traveling.

The last piece of art you fell in love with?  A painting in Copenhagen at the Carlsberg Museum, the name is "la baleine".  And some galleries in a Danish museum— the parts with African art.  I love them.

If money were no object, you’d buy what for your home? A professional kitchen and a super bathroom inside my bedroom. 

Company/place/institution you’d love to leave your mark on. In some museum like the Toile De Jouy Museum in Jouy-en-Josas.  They took some of our hand-decorated fluorescent pieces for their permanent collections.  I don’t want this for my own benefit but for people who like to discover different ideas and objects.

Place you go for design inspiration?  In the street and from some materials and sometimes in my head.

Magazine you can’t live without.  Newspaper 

Celebrity you’re inexplicably intrigued by.  Hervé Matejewski (laughter)

You're most proud of your collection of...  Toy robots

You can never have too many...  I really love shoes!

Hervé's Parisian Restaurant Recommendations

Fish
Le Boissonerie
69, Rue de Seine
Paris 75006
Tel: +33 1 43 54 34 69

 
Midory (Japanese restaurant/Sushi)
49, rue de l'Arbre Sec
Paris 75001
Tel: +33 1 42 97 47 30

 
Alain Ducasse au Hôtel Plaza-Athénée
25, Avenue Montaigne
Paris 75008
Tel: +33 1 53 67 65 00