SENSORY EXPERIENCE IN THE WORLD OF STEPH COP AND CHRISTIAN SINICROPI AT LA PALME D'OR

It's in the mythical Hotel Martinez, on the Croisette in , that an exclusive collaboration between the Steph Cop, Chef Christian Sinicropi from " La Palme d'Or** " and his wife Catherine Sinicropi is coming from April 7 to June 27, 2020.

@Bálint Pörneczi An exclusive sensory experience at the Hôtel Martinez Steph Cop and C&C Sinicropi

Christian Sinicropi, the 2 -starred Chef of La Palme d’Or at the Hôtel creation. His culinary compositions are veritable pictorial works, presented on plate collections collaboratively fashioned by his wife, ceramicist Catherine Sinicropi, especially for these epicurean inventions.

This original cuisine, at once instinctive and cerebral and inspired by the ingredient’s memorial history, is a multisensory experience: The flavors and aromatic notes blend into an olfactory construction and unfurl like a musical score; the chromatic arrangements on the handcrafted plates, coupled with textural relief, create powerful taste dynamics. Inspiration is also mined in meetings with contemporary , who are invited to take part in seasonal collaborations.

Christian and Catherine Sinicropi are unshakably committed to celebrating art in all its dimensions. The chef, the ceramist, and the guest artist pool their imaginative powers and intertwine their creative techniques to produce inimitable gastronomic aesthetics.

In spring 2020, from April 7 to June 27, La Palme d´Or restaurant, with two Michelin stars, presents an extraordinary experience for the senses featuring the work of artist Steph Cop.

When these three worlds intentionally collided, the intensity of the encounter shaped and stabilized the position of each in an atypical exploration of possibilities. The tree is the creative source of Steph Cop’s and now becomes the theme of a journey along the paths of taste: a wooded botanical promenade, the sensory translation of the artist’s intense relationship with arboreal nature.

2 It takes place at a single table for two to eight guests, set in a private room away from the world’s fuss and frenzy. The talented hands of sculptor, ceramist, and cook join forces. Mr. Cop’s iconic figure, ARO, usually carved from a tree, finds expression in the shape of the ceramics and gives life and dimension to the supports of the menu-movement crafted by the chef. Mr. Cop wished to forge a work that freed itself from a more formal dining framework to sculpt a setting formed of the shapes and volumes of ARO – which, in French, is an acronym for “Obsessive Reflex Analysis.” The support was first carved in wood, then the dialogue with Catherine Sinicropi’s savoir-faire made it possible for a ceramic interpretation after much patient, exacting work, reflecting the earth and the very substances that nurture the sylvan world.

Each detail of this one-of-a-kind meal is inspired by the tree’s ecosystem. Wood serves as the guiding force behind a three-course gourmet movement. As @Bálint Pörneczi prelude to the experience, guests are presented with a fragrance strip, such that they may smell and identify the woody note of each composition.

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The Artichoke - First Movement The blue-purple color of its flower inspired the following notes : acidic, sweet, cork oak wood, violet Vegetal Movement and the main pigment is artichoke.

The pea - Second movement A story between an artist A gourmet concentrate focused on the truth of the pea and its note of lichen moss. Steph Cop, a ceramist Catherine Sinicropi and an Zucchini - Third movement original kitchen signed An Azurean gustatory song with notes of smoky wood. Pollen musk and its nuances around Christian Sinicropi zucchini yellow or green. Price : €168 per person, The honey of Gourdon - Fourth movement beverage pairings Thyme fragrance and olive oil note. A sensation of freshness in the shade of the Riviera.

4 This aromatic exploration symbolizes the life cycle of the tree that is the raw material for Steph Cop’s oeuvre. The foods are paired with carefully chosen beverages that highlight each dish’s identity.

The Hôtel Martinez simultaneously plays host to other works by Steph Cop, which guests can appreciate on the way from the entrance to the table via Le Jardin du Martinez.

With its ambiguous shape, at once rudimentary and refined, the Robur oak of 2019, standing five feet and seven inches high, embodies the immanence of the tree. The work known as ARO, La Colonne 250 from 2018 is a deliberately interrupted form of a deconstructed sculpture in a fragment of a century-old ash, testament to the tree’s natural patterning. The bronze Black Raw, over seven feet tall, created in 2019, interprets an ash sculpted in cast iron, with black reflections underscoring the depth of life in the tree’s cracks and crevasses, revealing traces left by hand or tool. The 2020 bronze Cube is an extraction of the ARO sculpture’s aesthetics, with its consubstantial soul, a metaphor for the tree.

A journey deep into a wooded wonderland, a land in which art meets gastronomy, awaits you at the Hôtel Martinez. This immersive sensory experience can be had only at La Palme d’Or restaurant. The C&C Sinicropi X Steph Cop table in Cannes’ only two-Michelin-star restaurant may be reserved for two to eight guests from April 7 to June 27, 2020. Price : €168 per person, beverage pairings

5 Steph Cop, a complete artist

Steph Cop was born in 1968 in an under construction . He grew up amongst the building of the « Quartier des Halles », popular heart of the capital, who would welcome with public attention, the « Centre Pompidou » and contemporary art. Between school next to the Louvre, the « Tuileries » and the Stravinski Fountains, two worlds would collide. His childhood playground is focused on Art history both straight and broken.

In all this noise, the silence Steph Cop kept was louder than the tone of words. A new langage had to be found to come closer to the unspoken : invent, build, shape, to show his singularity. One dream : the « Boule » academy, but his voice lacked. The neighboorhood's library's art books spoke of other possible worlds. Loneliness was a vital necessity in order to welcome, with insatiable curiosity, what chaos could elaborate, it stayed with him. A first book bought about an exposition catologue that to this day is still so precious and reassuring that it should be counted amongs the actions that shape a future. Japonese art encyclopedias received as gifts, will echo in his adult life journey as well as the encounter of the singular ways existing to honor slow pace, refinement, and giving meaning to details. Japan : an anchor point possible, a land of deep ressource stowed under the surface of absurd potmodern excitement.

Steph Cop doesn't compromise with lack of sens. His life choices are moulded by separations when insignificance presents itself. In the begining of his adulthood, the does it as a game. Some of his, then, compagnons would build their artistic reputation over it. Steph Cop chose to use it as primary material to manufacture, as a craftman would, lototyped textiles. Speaking with shapes, without poetry. The company would soon florish but the absurdity had to stop. The change of century would be radical for Steph Cop, who exiled himself to find abrupt features in the land of Morvan. @Bálint Pörneczi

6 Living in an unknown village house, with family roots not far away, he eventually found out this house once belonged to a water diviner met during childhood : it would become his art studio, because during this milestone was being written the genesis of A.R.O (for Analyse, Reflex, Obsessional) , a structure of language, that would create his Artwork. A.R.O was born thanks to a singular writting where words would articulate in shapes and volumes. The artist finds his focus and syntax, the way to speak in the first person, the way of composing with the unspoken. Beyond finding his environment, his gravity center, from which a creative energy can be deployed. A.R.O was designed from an imaginary cube, base of key words that soar from introspection. Woes used for words, finally seen with depth and elevation. Words take the shape of a sculpture.

Steph Cop explores the land of Morvan by running everyday, confronting temporalities. He encounters trees, their intricacies, the traces of their past. You must cut dead wood for winter, an unexpecting handling of the chainsaw in a battle with the adaptable matter of wood. Art makes noise, just like the constructions did in his childhood setting. Art is born from silence, to break it Steph Cop learns from the trees, who while growing older, mould they own story. Shapes and lines testify of their vitality and flaws. Quercus Robus, the pedonculate oak, is a guardian figure. A.R.O becomes a shape sculpted from the stem of dead trees standing up or lying down.

The evolution of A.R.O constitutes the work of Steph Cop, an exit from silence, the plot of life throughout destiny extended by trees. The research that is expressed in the series of shapes of the A.R.O is coming, for the artist, to an end. Steph Cop comes back to draw a new energy in the cube. A new creative impulse is in genesis, words will be articulated in new shaps, always sculpted in association with refinement and the strength of gravity. Prior studies of volumes by are essential moments in this task. Writting and sculpting are also inseperable in Steph Cop's art project, who writes in his diary, daily : the architecture of words allows to remember fleeting thoughts which are at the root of @Bálint Pörneczi artwork in creation, they are an integral part of the sculpture. Each serie in the artwork of the artist is followed by a book : text is the imagination of the artwork.

7 Christian Sinicropi, A chef with an authentic approach

Born in Cannes, Christian Sinicropi is a lover and defender of his Provençal terroir. He has worked at the establishment since 2001; in 2007, he became the chef at La Palme d’Or restaurant, now boasting two Michelin stars and earning four Toques and 18/20 in the Gault&Millau guide. As Executive Chef of the Hôtel Martinez, he channels his creativity and style into the culinary artistry of La Palme d’Or and all the hotel’s other dining establishments.

The story of Chef Christian Sinicropi and the Hôtel Martinez dates back to the late 1980s. After earning a French vocational training certificate (CAP) as a cook in 1989, he took his first position as an apprentice chef (commis de cuisine) alongside Christian Willer. He then joined Sylvain Duparc’s

In 1993, he left for Biarritz and the city’s jewel of luxury hospitality, the Hôtel du Palais, where he joined him into the culinary constellations. First came Cannes, at the La Belle Otero* restaurant (two Michelin stars); then at Antoine Westermann’s Buerehiesel (three Michelin stars), then ’s restaurant, the Louis XV in (three Michelin stars). He returned to Cannes in several years, the two chefs worked in tandem before Chef Sinicropi took the helm in 2007.

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From his mother, a woman with Tuscan roots who had a small business selling wood-fired pizzas, he inherited the culture of good cooking and good eating. Christian Sinicropi is a local chef, proud to be Mediterranean and a defender of this land. What he holds most dear is the excellence of his ingredients, choosing them from select farmers, producers, and breeders in the region. Taste, too, is paramount: genuine, rustic, something that stirs our primitive instincts. This focus is framed by an artistic and poetic vision, an invitation to taste cuisine that is original, utterly authentic, an ode to Provence and the

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8 At La Palme d’Or restaurant, the tableware from e=sc2 is designed by Christian Sinicropi and crafted by his wife, Catherine. Several years ago, having mastered the secrets of ceramics, the couple began creating plates and other utensils to hold the chef’s entire culinary composition. Having studied the art alongside his wife at the École des Beaux-Arts in nearby Vallauris, this tableware is another tangible embodiment of his overall vision of cuisine that includes producers, breeders, farmers, market gardeners, cooks, as well as artists and ceramists.

Beyond working on their own designs, Christian and Cathy Sinicropi collaborate with other contemporary artists. The first such project began in 2011 with painter and plastic artist Patrick Moya. More alliances followed, such as with Steph Kop, a sculptor-artist from the Morvan in central , French urban artist Shaka Marshal, and, in 2018, Alëxone, another street artist and urban poet who, in creative complicity with the chef, designed a penguin serving cloche revealing a plate of langoustine.

The Movement concept Chef Sinicropi, innovator of all and imitator of none, brings a new culinary experience to La Palme d’Or restaurant. Starting with the menu in cube form and based on the principle of Movement. A philosophy founded on living things – in which the ingredient is embraced as being in a state of constant change – and the desire to explore new realms in cuisine.

As a prelude, his appetizers are utterly southern. A ceramic drawered creation shelters his

Sardines are eaten in marble form and the bottarga as a crisp lollipop wrapped in a crisp olive crust. Gone is the classic starter/main course/dessert parade: the menu features a Movement on each face, a key ingredient express in three dishes. Depending on the theme and chosen ingredient – lobster, oyster, lamb, farm pigeon, tastes of the sea, vegetables – the chef leads a three-step waltz, interpreting the ingredient’s texture, then its evolution over time, then its surrounding terroir. He creates @Bálint Pörneczi accords with the sauces the way a “nose” formulates perfumes and crafts the very tableware that allows his compositions freest expression.

9 Chef and ceramist at his wife's side Catherine Sinciropi.

At La Palme d’Or restaurant, the tableware from e=sc2 is designed by Beyond working on their own designs, Christian and Cathy Sinicropi Christian Sinicropi and crafted by his wife, Catherine. Several years ago, collaborate with other contemporary artists. The first such project began having mastered the secrets of ceramics, the couple began creating in 2011 with painter and plastic artist Patrick Moya. More alliances plates and other utensils to hold the chef’s entire culinary composition. followed, such as with Steph Kop, a sculptor-artist from the Morvan in Having studied the art alongside his wife at the École des Beaux-Arts in central France, French urban artist Shaka Marshal, and, in 2018, Alëxone, nearby Vallauris, this tableware is another tangible embodiment of his another street artist and urban poet who, in creative complicity with the overall vision of cuisine that includes producers, breeders, farmers, chef, designed a penguin serving cloche revealing a plate of langoustine. market gardeners, cooks, as well as artists and ceramists.

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10 About the Hotel Martinez About The Unbound Collection by Hyatt Inaugurated in 1929, the Hotel Martinez embodies the The Unbound Collection by Hyatt consists of a portfolio of Riviera of the Roaring Twenties. A friendly atmosphere, high-end properties, ranging from historic urban treasures to carefree and pleasure of life that make it the unmissable contemporary trends, boutique hotels and resorts. Whether meeting place on the Croisette and the address for through a fascinating past, a unique location, renowned personalities from all walks of life. Inspired by his Art Deco architecture and design, or an award-winning culinary style, the and the world of yachting, the architect Pierre-Yves Rochon has revived this iconic place, freedom to be unique. Current properties include: The Royal recreating the perfect harmony between a generous nature Palms in Phoenix, Arizona; The Confidante in Miami Beach, and a Mediterranean art of living. Riviera spirit will always be Florida; and Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City, N.J, The present and simple pleasures will be enjoyed around its new Eliza Jane in New Orleans; The Bellevue Hotel in spaces: 'La Plage', 'Le Jardin' and its mythical 'Martinez Bar', Philadelphia; Holston House Nashville, Tennessee; The without forgetting the restaurant 'La Palme d'Or', 2 Michelin Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas; Spirit Ridge in Osoyoos, British stars, orchestrated by Chef Christian Sinicropi. Its 409 rooms Columbia; Hotel Martinez in Cannes, France; Hôtel du Louvre including 99 suites, revisited in the spirit of the Riviera of the in Paris; Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz; Jinmao Hotel Lijiang in 1930s, its Beauty Spa L.Raphael... so many services that invite Lijiang, China; Nish Palas in Istanbul and The Carmelo Resort travellers to share the simple pleasures of the Riviera in a & Spa in Carmelo, Uruguay. chic and relaxed atmosphere... Events are not to be outdone For more information, visit unboundcollection.hyatt.com. with 15 modular lounges of 2500m² that can accommodate Follow @UnboundxHyatt on Facebook and Instagram. conventions, seminars and events in all seasons. For any reservation request, please contact +33(4)93 90 1234 or via the website hotel-martinez.com.

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