Eight designers and eight chefs collaborated as a pair to attain unique products that can be used in restaurants. The designers were inspired by the chefs and vice versa.
Point of departure for the project was the added value that creative industries can bring to other sectors of industry - in this case, to top-class restaurants. Design solutions were explored for situations that both the staff and the restaurants have to cope with in their daily work.
Although side tables do support an important function – somewhere to put down plates, or bottles of wine, for example – few restaurants pay any attention to them. For Hostellerie Vangaelen, Jens Praet transformed the traditional side table into a real multi-purpose eye-catcher.
