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...takes a shot in the billiards room, the restaurant La Terraza del Casino in central Madrid reeked of stuffy formality. So it seemed like a daring choice to put the eclectic Spanish artist Jaime Hayon, known for reimagining Lladró's porcelain collectibles, in charge of the redesign. But chef Paco Roncero, who worked at the famed El Bulli, was a fan and wanted Hayon to match the restaurant's décor with the creativity of his dishes, like razor clams with coconut foam. The result is an Alice in Wonderland fantasy in which Hayon has made everything from the chandeliers...
...Barcelona has raised tapas from a can to a modern art form. At Quimet i Quimet, all of the food is preserved in one way or another, but if you're envisioning Spam, you're in for a surprise. Producers like Ramón Peña and Paco Lafuente put out a high-quality product, canning everything from octopus to tuna belly. Some of their top tins can cost as much as $54 for almost as many clams. However, just because the ingredients are canned doesn't mean the food isn't wonderfully creative and fresh. Brother-and-sister...
...French artist. Depending on how you think about it, those disks can look like sequins or coins. Either way, for a department store, that's an apt association. But Kaplicky, a soft-spoken man with a very sober disposition, likes to cite another, very unsober inspiration, a Paco Rabanne "chain-link" dress from the 1960s. Disco fashion as the point of departure for a sizable building? Take that, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe...
...WHODUNIT BY ... WHO DAT? Apparently, leading a leftist revolution from the jungles of southern Mexico leaves plenty of time for literary pursuits. Zapatista spokesman SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS has co-written a noir mystery novel, The Uncomfortable Dead, with Spanish crime author Paco Ignacio Taibo II. The story of detectives investigating a government-backed murderer, due in U.S. bookstores next month, isn't the masked rebel's first stab at fiction. In 1999, Marcos, a former professor who travels with a pet rooster, wrote a children's book, Story of the Colors. His new work is an effort to raise awareness...
...cause the slightest bit of trouble for the Quijorna Golf Club, located 40 km outside Madrid. Here only rainwater is used to keep the 18-hole course green. And if nature doesn't cooperate in irrigating Spain's first ecological golf course, then let it be brown, explains Paco López, founder of the Quijorna Golf Club...