For Architecture at the Edge, Guzzle and Almost Anywhere come together at settle, TRESTLE’s temporary public interior, for a site-specific dinner exploring place as something we create through gathering, rather than a space we are fixed to.

There is a certain freedom in not having a permanent kitchen. We arrive with what we need, find our bearings and begin to cook. The kitchen takes shape around us, while the table follows. In this sense, we carry our rituals of hospitality from one place to another, carving out a sense of belonging through the act of gathering.

settle feels like a natural meeting point for this idea. Designed to be dismantled, rearranged and reimagined, the installation asks how objects and infrastructure can transform a space into somewhere to gather. Our dinner will extend that invitation, activating the structure as a site of commensality, a dining room and a temporary home. Then, like us, it moves on.

Almost Anywhere is a hospitality collective, hosting feasts at the intersection of food, culture and the arts. Almost Anywhere was founded by Tom Hayes, a Ballymaloe Cookery School alumnus, after training in London and Copenhagen, where he developed a love for celebrating the finest seasonal produce at any given time of year. 

Almost Anywhere allows the best produce of the season to express itself, supporting regenerative farmers along the way. This work has brought them to many interesting locations across Ireland and beyond, from art galleries to forests and cliff edges. They have hosted feasts in farmhouses of France and Italy and even as far as Utah in the USA. 

settle is a temporary installation designed and curated by TRESTLE. The project proposes a new public interior for gathering and collective experience in the contemporary city. Inspired by the functionalism and adaptability of Irish vernacular furniture, the installation explores how an infrastructure of considered objects can formulate a new, albeit temporary, public interior. The installation can be recast and reformatted to host a variety of events and gatherings – in this way it acts as an extended invitation to the city.