Recea x Studio Atelier Creatives Dinner

On the second night of the festival, we co-hosted a private artist dinner with Recéa Marin in a hidden courtyard behind a gallery residence in Cannes. Enclosed by climbing vines and aged stone, and softly sheltered beneath a glass canopy, the evening was designed to feel like an interlude—warm, personal, and outside of time.

As the sun fell behind the Riviera, the long table began to glow with layered candlelight—tapered brass holders, short votives, and the occasional flicker of a handwritten matchbook flame. The table was draped in soft linen and set with hand-thrown ceramic vessels overflowing with wild florals in burnt ochre, deep plum, and dusty rose. Vintage glassware in amber, moss green, and smoked crystal caught the flickering light like film stills in motion.

Each place setting featured a linen napkin in muted olive or clay, paired with a handwritten menu and a small archival envelope. Inside each envelope: a blank letter and quiet instructions. Guests were invited to write to their past or future selves—an intimate, reflective gesture that echoed Recéa’s belief in memory as an act of performance.

Before dinner was served, Recéa previewed an unreleased track from her score for The Lot. The piece played softly as guests sipped wine and began to write. Conversations rose slowly from silence, unfolding like the setting itself: layered, textural, intentional.

No photographers. No red carpet. Just shared food, slow music, and the kind of presence that lingers long after the candles burn low.

This was not a press event. It was a creative ritual. An offering between friends, collaborators, and fellow travelers in the practice of becoming.