The Ever-Changing Table
First Edition
A collaborative installation with Inspired Gathering exploring the table as a living, site-specific canvas.
In The Ever-Changing Table series, the table is not static - it is alive. It responds to its surroundings: the weather, light, shadows, and skyline beyond. What is placed upon it becomes part of a broader composition that extends beyond the meal itself. Each edition is a site-specific and time-specific installation where food, architecture, and gathering form a single living tableau.
For the first edition, created in collaboration with Inspired Gathering, the table was set in the courtyard of Troya Bar Berlin / Jung von Matt. To deepen the idea of “eating off of buildings,” we designed custom blue-and-white bricks to serve the food. Each brick was cast from crushed construction waste mixed with white cement and pigment, referencing both the building’s brick façade and the act of reconstructing material memory.
In true midsummer spirit, guests wore handmade chili crowns, creating a vibrant blue-and-red tableau against the urban courtyard.
The menu reimagined a childhood classic - stuffed vegetables - as a playful study in separation and form:
🍅 Tomatoes, gently poached and served whole on rice, with a sphere of spinach, feta, and basil “stuffing” alongside.
🍆 Eggplants, raw on pink tahini, concealing smoky mushrooms, roasted eggplant, and sage beneath. The stuffing was only revealed once guests lifted the raw eggplant away.
🥒 Round zucchinis, poached to retain their bright yellow hue, filled from the base with confit zucchini and dill.
A familiar dish, seen from a new angle — echoing the project’s central idea: that both food and space transform when viewed, shared, and reimagined together.
