Table covered with Pisoni–lab thermoformed mirror surfaces in front of the Teo Jakob showroom posters
FOODDD Pecha Kucha
Food Design Days 2025, Geneva, 2025
Detail of mirror surfaces with a yellow tray, candle holder and tartlets
Guests helping themselves at the buffet set on mirror surfaces, Teo Jakob showroom
Thermoformed mirror surfaces on a console in front of the Teo Jakob poster
Guest taking a bite from the macaron and tartlet buffet

FOODDD, Food Design Days, is a programme created by Espaces Contemporains magazine to explore the links between design, architecture and gastronomy. For the Pecha Kucha day at the Teo Jakob showroom in Geneva, I designed the culinary staging. The V-Zug chefs brought the taste dimension. They rooted the day in that sensory territory where cooking meets design.

I worked with the showroom's existing vocabulary: its furniture and its objects. The idea was to turn this commercial space into a place for meeting and exchange. Rather than covering up Teo Jakob's permanent collection, I added a new spatial layer, with mirror surfaces thermoformed to measure for Teo Jakob. It brings the audience, the speakers and the food together in one shared atmosphere. The showroom becomes a theatre of ideas, where design is both the subject on stage and the setting that hosts it.

The day

Speaker presenting at the FOODDD Pecha Kucha to the audience, Teo Jakob showroom in Geneva
Audience applauding under the coffered concrete ceiling of the Teo Jakob showroom

Details

Pink and red tartlets on a blue stand and a mirror surface
Guests around the buffet, red tartlets on a table base wrapped in mirror
Guests along the V-Zug chefs' buffet, set on mirror surfaces
Long buffet of macarons, bites and flowers on mirror surfaces
Green ceramic bird placed between two thermoformed mirror surfaces
Table of bites by a Teo Jakob window, mirror surface draped over the edge
Karen Pisoni in front of the buffet and the Teo Jakob showroom posters
Raw vegetable platter on a round table, thermoformed mirror surface on the edge

Information

Date

22 November 2025

Venue

Teo Jakob showroom, Geneva

Context

FOODDD, Food Design Days (Espaces Contemporains)

Type

Event scenography, food design

Credits and thanks

Scenography

Karen Pisoni

Food

V-Zug chefs

Photos

Loïc Herin

Thanks

Espaces Contemporains, Teo Jakob, V-Zug

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