The Summer Edit with Cantine Laszlo
Meet Laszlo Marie Badet, former Chanel couturière, Paris-based chef and the creative behind Cantine Laszlo. Her guide to the art of summer living at La Roca Village: what to wear, how to set the table and why the two are never far apart.
Mediterranean Dream
A white shirt worn over everything, a pareo tied a thousand different ways, ceramics that catch the light. Pared-back pieces that feel like a permanent holiday.
Villeroy & Boch
Luzio
Textura
You'll love
ba&sh
Sandro
eseOese
Sicilian Table
A tablecloth chosen with intention. Flowers from the terrace. For Laszlo, the table is a creative. Think cast iron in deep colour and ceramic glazes that tell a story.
Luzio
Villeroy & Boch
ZWILLING
Set the scene
Maje
Maje
A Mosaic of Flavours
Laszlo cooks the way she dresses –instinctively, with colour and contrast. Bold prints meet hand-thrown bowls. This is summer at the crossroads of fashion and food.
Villeroy & Boch
Luzio
Textura
Mix and layer
Isabel Marant
eseOese
Adolfo Domínguez
Villeroy & Boch
Luzio
Etro
Add a twist
Claudie Pierlot
Coach
Etnia Barcelona
“A beautiful table is not only created by the objects placed upon it. It is also created by the people gathered around it”, Laszlo Marie Badet
IN CONVERSATION WITH LASZLO BADET
Couturière, culinary creative, one of Paris's most quietly compelling voices in food. Laszlo Marie Badet trained at the Chanel ateliers for almost ten years before turning her hand to the kitchen. She spoke to La Roca Village about the thread between craft, the table and dressing for the season.
On her roots
Swiss-born and Paris-made. Laszlo left the countryside at eighteen to join the Chanel ateliers, carrying with her a childhood shaped by nature, creativity and two artist parents. Nearly a decade at the house taught her the value of time, loyalty and invisible precision — hand-sewn bees at the top of skirt slits, bevelled corners, hand-embroidered buttonholes. Paris became home; Switzerland remained her foundation.
On the connection between couture and cooking
For Laszlo, cooking is couture on a different material. The gesture is the same: patience, attention to detail, a love of making something by hand. Food, she says, is the most natural way she has of expressing affection — an act of generosity, trust and hospitality that accompanies every moment of life.
On her aesthetic
Instinctive and simple, generous and joyful, attentive and delicate. Twisted, braided, folded.
On summer dressing
A pareo in a thousand configurations. A thick white cotton shirt for everything. A playful bag that only appears on holiday. A few unexpected hairpins. She buys according to feeling and encounter, mixing second-hand with new — always practical, never rushed.
On the art of the table
The mise en scène matters almost as much as the plate. Not elaboration but care — a tablecloth, a glass, a few flowers. She collects Stoff Nagel candle holders, treasures her Italian grandmother's silver, and always travels with candles. If she had to choose one element, it would be flowers. Then olive oil and fleur de sel.
On La Roca Village
What she remembers most is the calm. The light, the tranquillity, the delicious food — from the seafood paella to pastries under the shade of a tree. A place to wander without feeling rushed, where fashion and gastronomy coexist with a natural ease. She left wanting to return with her sister and her children, to take time, shop slowly and enjoy a beautiful day.
