Pair of framed photographs featuring Michel Roux with two associates wearing “Absolut Dick, ” “Absolut Michel, ” and “Absolut Perfection!” shirts. Includes one color and one black-and-white photograph, each presented in a wood frame.
Previously displayed condition with light wear, minor scratches, and surface markings. Please reference all photos for full condition details.
Sizing Together: 15 1/4" x 12 1/4" x 1". Weight: 3.0 lbs.
From the collection of Michel Roux, the liquor icon. One of Mr. Roux’s signature spirits at Crillon was absinthe, the anise-flavored spirit known for its popularity among 19th-century artists like van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. It was banned by the United States in 1912 amid concerns that wormwood, one if its ingredients, which contained thujone, caused hallucinations. In 2000 Mr. Roux introduced a legal absinthe, Absente, which used a sister botanical, Southern wormwood, with only trace amounts of thujone.
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