It started in 2009, when GIFRE started a collaboration between famed restaurant elBulli and GIFRE table (Pere Gifre and GIFRE General Manager, Daniel Molina) to design new ways of serving food. This project meant the research and investigation of a creative methodology adapted to the technical and artistic challenges in the design field. The collaboration with elBulli would be maintained over 3 years (until 2011 when elBulli restaurant decided to close) during those early days the main task for GIFRE was to familiarize themselves with the restaurant concepts that elBulli was setting up and begin a research process and development based on biomimetic from the nature in local Cap de Creus peninsula region.
With elSomni, the image, the art, the music, the taste and smell, are united in a cross-media work piece….an opera-dinner about the cyclical journey of human existence. A dream through twelve emotions that takes the particpant to the table where the dinner will be held, where the kitchen and video creation are transformed into a new artistic experience. With GIFRE pieces used throughout, elSomni is truly a sensory culinary journey, with each of the imaginative serving pieces playing a protagonistic role. 
“The relationship that we have now begun with GIFRE is something we are very, very excited about.”
– Antony Ward, Marketing Manager
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exclusive UK source for GIFRE
GIFRE – Mimicking nature.
Indeed.
You can learn more about GIFRE and its wide range of innovative serving pieces by going here:
http://www.gifretable.com/
