SEMPÉ RESTAURANT

Jigsaw Puzzle 1000 pieces with its large design for model. Dimensions of the puzzle once completed is 68 x 49 cm.

On the cover of the New Yorker of February 1, 1988, Sempé reveals the backstage of a great French restaurant in Manhattan. The phlegm of the waiter who is about to enter the room does not suggest the energy of the chefs and the kitchen assistants. French gastronomy at work.

Sempé was born on August 17, 1932 in Bordeaux. His studies were not very good and he was expelled for indiscipline from the Collège moderne de Bordeaux. He started his working life as a handyman for a wine broker, as a monitor for summer camps, as an office boy... At eighteen, he anticipated the call and went to Paris. He scoured the newsrooms and, in 1951, sold his first drawing to Sud-Ouest. His meeting with Goscinny coincided with the beginning of a dazzling career as a "press cartoonist". Rien n'est simple, his first album of drawings, appeared in 1962. About forty would follow, masterpieces of humor that wonderfully translated his tenderly ironic vision of our shortcomings and the world's failings. Sempé is one of the few French cartoonists to illustrate the covers of the very prestigious The New Yorker, and today he makes thousands of readers smile in Paris Match.

In 1992, Martine Gossieaux opened a gallery dedicated to her passion since childhood: humor drawings. The one that interests her most is the timeless, elegant drawing. She is the agent and editor of Sempé, with whom she has collaborated since the 1980s. The gallery exhibits the cartoonist's original drawings every year at 56 rue de l'Université in Paris, publishes original engravings and prints, books and regularly organizes the large-scale exhibitions dedicated to him all over the world in museums and cultural venues. In 2018, the Jean-Jacques Sempé Endowment Fund was created by the cartoonist to disseminate and promote his work.

Our products are 100% French, made and assembled by hand in our Parisian workshops.