Top Chef Daniel Humm Collects Pop Stars and Michelin Stars

Rolling Stones by Robert Altman

Art and music are two of the unexpected ingredients that fuel the culinary success of chef Daniel Humm , winner of the James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef. As proof, look no further than the kitchens of his two top-rated New York restaurants, run with partner Will Guerrara. For Eleven Madison Park, Chef Humm selected classic Miles Davis prints ("so cool, fresh, innovative and collaborative"), while the more raucous Rolling Stones photos preside at NoMad, which he calls "our looser, louder sibling."

Miles Davis from the Columbia Records Archive

Sample all of the top chef's favorite images from Rock Paper Photo in this tastefully edited collection . We hope they inspire you to equally creative heights.

Bob Marley, Mick Jagger & Peter Tosh by Michael Putland

Kurt Cobain by Joe Giron

Joey Ramone by Roberta Bayley

Notorious B.I.G. by Chi Modu