WHEN I MET YOU I ALMOST MISSED YOU

Chinatown Soup is pleased to present When I Met You I Almost Missed You, a cafe experience care of Anh Dao Ha that is inspired by Vietnamese kitsch aesthetics and karaoke ballads. Please join us for an after hours reception on Thursday, August 4th from 6-9pm to celebrate! The work will be on view through August 7th.

Special thanks to Nguyen Coffee Supply for your generous support.

When I Met You I Almost Missed You is an exploration of the poetics of Vietnamese kitsch objects and how they form spaces of endearment. Many Vietnamese businesses are fashioned from what is immediately available, creating an ad-hoc mixture of utilities and function within a single space. Following this spirit, an assemblage of objects that belong to different Vietnamese spaces converge to create this fantasy world cafe. The show consists of handmade reinterpretations of street food furniture, phins (Vietnamese drip coffee makers), and traditional clothing.

Anh Dao Ha is a NYC based multidisciplinary designer. Deity Salon is her emerging design studio emphasizing in hyper-personal objects, wearables, and furniture. Anh Dao obtained her BFA in Product Design from Parsons School of Design and BA in Literary Studies from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. Read more about the artist here.