Meymandi, with cherry wood surfaces, creamy enamel walls and violet seats, does not wage war with its old oversize nemesis but simply sidesteps it.
The figure is painted in iridescent tones of pale violet, rose, creamy white and gold, accented with bursts of crimson and green and emerging in a blaze of clear light from a dark background.
You could fall in love with them for their names alone, from Andalusian manzanilla and sevillano olives, to the south of France's tiny, chewy nyons (delicious on today's pissaladière), green picholine, pert, creamy lucques and fleshy, violet-brown kalamatas from Greece.
The violet-edged creamy octopus carpaccio is garnished with lemon, wild arugula, pretty rose radishes, fennel and a spunky anchovy sauce.
And while tributes highlighted her many movies and marriages, it's probably fair to say that a lot of us will remember her for her exquisite beauty: those violet eyes, her creamy skin and thick, black hair.
Its coloration is a deep, metallic violet to purplish brown above and creamy white below.
Living specimens range in colour from translucent creamy white through pale yellow to brownish pink and brownish violet.
Those painter's-painter references are still there, but you'll have to hunt for them: in the creamy vanilla background of "Four Ice Cream Cones" (1964) or the fathomless violet shadows of "Candy Bag" (2009).
Instead, it's the skillful presentation and delightful surprises — a tangy shot of creamy cheese in an amuse-bouche of pea soup and smoked salmon, or tiny violet flowers adorning succulent jamón ibérico and white asparagus — that help make Mr. Txapartegi's food so pleasurable.
