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76 77 oris, number 81, year 2013 Philippe Starck, Restaurant Miss Kō oris, broj 81, godina 2013 Philippe Starck, Restoran Miss Kō ¶ ’Sometimes, dreams are feverish, crazy, strange… You wake up feeling different, blown away by what you’ve experienced, relieved to awake, but sad because you’re not sure you can ever return. Miss Kō is exactly that, only that, especially that. A fantasy that has been conceived from scratch, a exquisite corpse inspired by Asia, a crazy collage where you run head- long into a far-distant court of miracles, in a street straight out of Blade Runner, where creative madness knows no lim- its, where performers know no boundaries, where technology reveals a thrilling prospect of the future and where industry becomes art. The David Rochline portrait of the enigmatic Miss Kō reigns over an anarchic world of cooks yelling through the steam of their kitchen, of boles of washing-up liquid from Wonderland, of acid-fuelled aquarium frescos, and of monstrously oversize, overbright teapots. A profusion of incomprehensible signs that could well be Asian. An infinite exaggeration of information – should that be disinformation – screens. In the world of Miss Kō, nothing is normal, not even us. It’s contagious’. Philippe Starck ¶ ‘Snovi su ponekad grozničavi, ludi, čudni… Probudite se osjećajući se drugačije, osupnuti onime što se iskusili. Odlanulo vam je što ste se probudili, ali ste tužni jer niste sigurni hoćete li se ikada vratiti. Miss Kō je baš takva, samo takva, naročito takva. Maštarija smišljena ni iz čega, Le Cadavre Exquis nadah- nut Azijom, luckasti kolaž u kojemu naglavce ulijećete u daleki dvor čuda, u ulicu ravno iz Blade Runnera, u kojoj nema granica kreativnome ludilu, u kojoj izvođači ne znaju za ograničenja, u kojoj tehnologija otkriva uzbudljive izglede za budućnost, u kojoj industrija postaje umjetnost. Portret zagonetne Miss Kō Davida Rochlinea kraljuje nad anarhičnim svijetom kuhara koji se dovikuju kroz kuhinjsku paru, boca sa sredstvom za pranje posuđa iz Wonder Landa, akvarijskih fresaka koje kao da su nastale na acidu i čudovišno prevelikih, previše sjajnih čajnika – preobilje nerazumljivih znakova koji bi lako mogli biti azijski. Beskrajno uveličavanje informacijskih – ili možda dezinformacijskih – zaslona. U svijetu Miss Kō ništa nije nor- malno, čak ni mi. To je zarazno.’ Philippe Starck fotografije photographs by portret portrait Ljubaznošću / courtesy of Miss Ko Sophie Delaporte Miss Kō Miss Kō autor author Philippe Starck
