Prost's Sweet Dream In Pieces.
The model of a Prost AP01, carved in chocolate, which initially appeared in New York this summer, has met a shattering end.
The lifesize replica, valued at ?40,000, was due to form the centrepiece of a three-month exhibition in London, but failed to make it in one piece after breaking up in the back of a transporter somewhere under the English Channel en route from Paris.
The model of a Prost AP01, carved in chocolate, which initially appeared in New York this summer, has met a shattering end.
The lifesize replica, valued at ?40,000, was due to form the centrepiece of a three-month exhibition in London, but failed to make it in one piece after breaking up in the back of a transporter somewhere under the English Channel en route from Paris.
Designer Pascal Guerreau said that he and his team would try all they could to repair the car - including fusing the broken pieces together by melting the chocolate along the joins - but admitted to being devastated at the discovery of the wreckage.
"I am very upset," he said, "because I wanted to display something nice. It's something I couldn't imaging happening.When the car left [Paris], there weren't any problems, but what can I do now? I can't really do anything, but I'm not going to cry.
"We are going to work this evening to try and build [the car] again, but it was too broken to be in the show as it was."
