A Night at Davé
€45.00
Polaroids from the legendary Parisian restaurant
A book conceived by Charles Morin and Boris Bergmann
The new IDEA book is A NIGHT AT DAVÉ. A book of the Chinese restaurant in Paris, opened and run by Tai ‘Davé’ Cheung in 1982, that immediately became a fashion, film, art and music industry favourite. Helmut Newton and his wife June were early adopters, Grace Coddington, Bernardo Bertolucci, Allen Ginsberg, Yves Saint Laurent, Francis Ford Coppola followed. It didn’t stop. Davé was the most fashionable eatery in Paris for three whole decades... incroyable! Davé’s clientele were his customers and his friends. The restaurant was always open but also, according to the sign on the door, always COMPLET. If you knew Davé you would be seated and served, without a menu or regard to prices. It was an open secret that everyone was there and yet absolute privacy was maintained. And all secrets would remain sealed but for the fact that Davé took pictures, Polaroids of everyone who was anyone, photos with him in early selfie style, with each other in, in endlessly unexpected combinations, and solo, in disarmingly off-guard portraits. These are the pictures that make up A NIGHT AT DAVÉ, a Polaroid book of historic proportions.
There are three texts. Sofia Coppola has written the foreword. Her father is a lifelong friend of Davé and Sofia has frequented the restaurant since she was a child. The celebrated French writer Jean-Jaques Schuhl contributes an epilogue of suitably literary delectation, an excerpt from his 2010 novel Entrée des Fantômes, translated for the first time into English by Charles Morin. And there is an interview with Davé himself in which he tells stories that, in some cases, reveal more about the photographs than the Polaroids themselves. In addition to the Polaroids there are unique artworks—tokens of affection gifted to Davé by his artist friends, sketched on menus, scribbled on business cards, or even directly on the tables. Unpublished drawings by Jean-Paul Gaultier, Keith Haring, George Condo and Martin Kippenberger, a note from Henri Cartier-Bresson, postcards from Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin. A NIGHT AT DAVÉ is a story very vividly told!
The book has a Polaroid of just about EVERYONE. Some IDEA favourites (and least likely contenders) pulled from the multitude of names: Iggy Pop, Rei Kawakubo, Sarah Moon, Lou Reed, Yoko Ono, Madonna, John Travolta, Tina Turner, Jeanne Moreau, Alexander McQueen and Janet Jackson.
The book was conceived and edited by Charles Morin and Boris Bergmann alongside Davé. All three of them are available for interview.
2025
Clothbound hardcover with tip on print
22 x 27cm
224 pages
Edition of 1000
© IDEA
Please note that colors may slightly differ between the screen and the actual product.
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