Tuju, São Paulo

A restaurant with its own greenhouse, taking farm-to-table to another level

by Jorge Grimberg In São Paulo, a new restaurant has taken the search for local suppliers to the next level. “All we have planted here is eatable, from the greenhouse to the front garden,” Ivan Raslton Bielawski—the eatery’s 29-year-old chef—tells CH. Tuju, located at Vila Madalena (the original bohemian neighborhood of São Paulo) is a symbol of the recent and ongoing evolution of the area, …

Tom Dixon, Maison & Objet’s Designer of the Year

The copper-loving British designer's latest barware collection, designing a hotel and his plans for the London Design Festival

by Caroline Kinneberg Tom Dixon might have received an OBE from Her Majesty in 2001, but that hasn’t made him blasé about winning other awards. Cool Hunting sat down with him last week at the latest edition of Maison & Objet, Paris’ colossal biannual home design tradeshow, where he was honored as Designer of the Year. Wanting to do something special for the show, Dixon …

London’s Tincan Restaurant

Renowned architecture firm AL_A elevates canned seafood into a modern meal

by Adam Coghlan One of the more intriguing culinary experiments we’ve seen in some time comes from an unlikely source: award-winning architecture and design practice AL_A. With Tincan—a new six-month-long temporary restaurant and shop in London’s Soho area—the establishment aims to source and showcase the finest (tinned) seafood from around the world and to pilot innovations in both design and technology. Although the idea was …