The ESAD (Reims Higher School of Art and Design)
This French state school of art and design has 210 students, divided into four streams: ‘art’, ‘object & space design’, ‘graphic & digital design’ and ‘design & culinary’.
The École des Beaux-Arts de Reims was founded in 1748, under the impetus of Louis-Jean Levesque de Pouilly to ‘enlighten industry’. Located in a wing of the current Town Hall, the students studied surrounded by works by Cranach, Dürer, Lebrun, Poussin, Rubens, etc., from the personal collection of its director, Mr Ferrand de Monthelon, which were donated to the City Museum of Fine Arts, created in 1794. Renamed the École Supérieure d'Art et de Design (ÉSAD) in 1992, the current establishment is part of this tradition and continues to attach the same importance to the relationship between art and its social and economic environment.
ArsNova provides more specific support for the Master's in Culinary Design, whose students work all year on the theme of the ArsNova Culinary Prize.
In particular, they create an inspirational mood board for the finalists, as well as the centrepieces for the international final dinner.
