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Harry Nuriev is transforming Le Dalí, the restaurant at Paris hotel Le Meurice, into an immersive installation called The Stage for Paris Art Week, running October 20–25. The project includes a ten-course menu developed with Alain Ducasse and Amaury Bouhours, alongside all-day restaurant service and evening performances.
Designer Harry Nuriev will transform Le Dalí, the restaurant at Paris hotel Le Meurice, into an immersive installation called The Stage for Paris Art Week, October 20–25. The project brings together a sculptural dining environment, evening performances and a ten-course tasting menu created with chefs Alain Ducasse and Amaury Bouhours, linking the hotel’s hospitality program with the city’s art-week events.
The installation centers on a monumental communal table, dramatically lit and dotted with classical and contemporary objects coated in molten silver. Le Meurice and Nuriev describe the space as an immersive takeover of the restaurant, rather than a standalone gallery display. Visitors are expected to encounter the work while dining and moving through the venue.
During the week, The Stage is set to operate in several formats. The restaurant will serve breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea, while evening performances will activate the space. A separate ten-course black-and-white tasting menu, developed with Ducasse and Bouhours, is planned for 24 guests. The source report does not specify whether every dinner service will follow that format or provide booking details.
The project arrives as Nuriev’s profile spans design, fashion, retail and hospitality. The Russian-born, Paris-based designer founded Crosby Studios, a multidisciplinary practice working between Paris and New York. Recent work cited in the report includes the temporary stores for NikeSKIMS in Le Marais, Tokyo and Shanghai. In January, Maison & Objet named him its Designer of the Year 2026.
A Restaurant Becomes an Art Week Venue
The project puts design inside a working hospitality setting, where the installation is experienced alongside food and public programming rather than viewed only as an object or exhibition. That approach reflects the cross-disciplinary nature of Nuriev’s practice, which moves between interiors, fashion and hospitality.
For Le Meurice, the takeover gives the restaurant a role in Paris Art Week beyond serving meals: it becomes a setting for an installation and performances, while retaining regular daytime dining. The limited 24-person tasting menu also makes one part of the program intentionally small-scale. The report does not say how many people the broader installation can accommodate or how access to performances will work.
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Nuriev’s Transformist Design Approach
Nuriev describes his design philosophy as “transformism”: finding new meaning in existing things rather than treating creativity as the invention of wholly new forms. His past projects have reworked discarded or familiar materials, including unsold and damaged Balenciaga clothing used in a transparent-vinyl sofa, denim turned into interior furnishings, and discarded computer keyboards cast into a dining set.
That method also informs his more theatrical commercial work. Examples in the source report include a large Jimmy Choo shoe installation at the brand’s Miami flagship and a Louis XV-style settee wrapped in adhesive tape for The Transformist Apartment at Design Parade 2025. The Le Dalí project extends this interest in altering familiar settings and objects into a hotel restaurant during a major cultural event.
Nuriev says he is drawn to archives and historical references, and to giving renewed attention to things people may have stopped noticing. He has described design as a bridge between past, present and future. The Stage’s mixture of classical and contemporary objects, presented with a silver finish, fits that stated interest, although the source does not provide a full inventory of the installation.
“Visitors will have the opportunity not only to see the installation, but to interact with it, become part of it, and, hopefully, walk away with a thought, a feeling, or a certain energy that they can bring back into their lives.”
— Harry Nuriev, describing The Stage
Access and Program Details Await
The source report gives the dates and broad program but does not state how visitors can reserve the tasting menu, whether performances require separate tickets, or whether the installation will be freely accessible to people who are not dining at Le Dalí. It also does not provide the performance schedule, menu price, or complete list of participating artists.
The account presents the project as planned for October 20–25, but does not report on its opening or confirm that all elements will run as described. Details about the installation’s materials and exact layout beyond the silver-coated objects and communal table remain limited.
The October Program at Le Dalí
The Stage is scheduled to run at Le Dalí from October 20 through 25, overlapping with Art Basel Paris, which the source dates October 23–25. The next practical information for visitors is likely to be the restaurant’s reservation and event-access guidance, particularly for the tasting menu limited to 24 guests and the evening performances.
Once the program begins, the key test will be how the installation operates alongside the restaurant’s daytime service and whether visitors can take part without booking the special dinner. The source report does not provide a later exhibition run or plans for the installation to move to another venue.
Key Questions
What is Harry Nuriev’s The Stage?
The Stage is an immersive installation taking over Le Dalí, the restaurant at Le Meurice in Paris, for Paris Art Week. It centers on a large communal table and objects coated in a molten-silver finish.
When will The Stage take place?
The project is scheduled for October 20–25, during Paris Art Week and overlapping with Art Basel Paris, October 23–25.
What is included in the Le Dalí program?
The announced program includes breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea service, evening performances, and a ten-course black-and-white tasting menu created with Alain Ducasse and Amaury Bouhours for 24 guests.
The source report does not provide reservation instructions, prices or ticketing details for the tasting menu or performances. Visitors will need to check Le Meurice’s current event and restaurant information for access arrangements.
What does Nuriev mean by transformism?
Nuriev uses “transformism” to describe reinterpreting and altering existing objects or references to give them new meaning, rather than pursuing novelty for its own sake.
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