Philippe Starck

Kill Bill meets Blade Runner /  by Richard

Miss kō is an Asian fusion restaurant in Paris. Philippe Starck’s latest project located in the epicenter of Paris’ Golden triangle, which is a collaboration with restaurateur Claude Louzon. 

Miss kō is not just a restaurant; it’s a truly insane place where street food, cocktails, art, and music meet to create a unique culinary experience. Inside miss kō it’s the future; a place where cultures collide, fantasy rules and nothing is what it seems. A street out of Blade Runner: a cement parking-garage, TV screens that spew out hundreds of images of live news coverage from Asia, a kitchen that smokes.''

​Miss kō - 49/51 avenue George V - 75008 Paris -  +33 1 53 67 84 60

I like real books /  by Richard

Benedikt Taschen has lost huge sums of money on some of its books and he don’t regret it at all. Mr. Taschen likes to do things his way, and he has built a publishing empire being an unusual publisher.

“Publishing is, as life, unpredictable and can be dangerous. I am an optimistic guy, like Voltaire’s Candide, kind of sleepwalking through business and life, bumping every once in a while into a genius who makes me rich, in my head, heart and financially. As a friend of mine put it: the plan is, there is no plan.”

"We have a different way to approach things; usually we don't care about budgets. I never compromise quality, and I'm willing to take a risk. We want to have our books done right and then we look at how to finance it."

Mr. Taschen started selling comic books when he was a teen-ager, with his first store called "Taschen Comics", today he have 200 employees in seven offices and 11 stores world-wide.

His most famous book might be the limited edition of "SUMO" (1999) by Helmut Newton, it was an over sized 35.4 kg book with 420 images book, on a stand designed by Philippe Starck. The first "SUMO" copy sold at auction was in 2000 for $430,000.

Today Taschen known for its exclusive sex, film, photography and architecture books  and so much more, look for yourself and buy one.