Overview
- The book gathers hundreds of Polaroids shot by Cheung at his Chinese restaurant opened in 1982 near the Comédie-Française.
- Edited by Charles Morin and Boris Bergmann alongside Cheung, the volume also features letters, sketches, and handwritten notes from regulars.
- IDEA is releasing a limited edition of 1,000 copies, with prospective buyers asked to email to join the purchase list.
- Guests captured across art, fashion, and music include Helmut and June Newton, Grace Coddington, Allen Ginsberg, Yves Saint Laurent, Francis Ford Coppola, Iggy Pop, Rei Kawakubo, Lou Reed, Yoko Ono, Madonna, Alexander McQueen, and Kate Moss.
- The restaurant prized privacy and word-of-mouth appeal and quietly closed in February 2018, giving the archive a distinctly retrospective lens.