How to Host a Lunch Like a Parisian Gallerist

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T Magazine|How to Host a Lunch Like a Parisian Gallerist https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/t-magazine/bianca-lee-vasquez-paris-lunch.html Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Entertaining With The artist Bianca Lee Vasquez, a co-founder of the art space Sainte Anne, regularly gathers friends for laid-back meals at her apartment, just a few blocks away.
Video The artist and gallerist Bianca Lee Vasquez enlisted the Estonian chef Monika Varšavskaja to prepare an informal buffet lunch at her home in Paris that included, from left to right, a radicchio salad, pickles, puff pastry pies, olives, anchovies and flatbreads
Credit...Su Cassiano For the past few years, that room has served as an occasional extension of Sainte Anne, the gallery Lee Vasquez founded with her friend Masha Novoselova, 39, a Russian-born model turned art director, in 2021.
“It’s not about work relations, or diplomacy, just delicious food and a place to be oneself.”Credit...Su Cassiano Lee Vasquez’s home — a calm, loft-like duplex in a 17th-century apartment building — is just blocks from Sainte Anne, so opening-night parties tend to end there, and she often hosts meals for the gallery’s artists and extended community.