ENTRY 01 - DINNER
MARCH 25, 2025
Over the past few months, Alex Carmen, Zoe Alameda, and Jonah Koneazny collaborated on a hand-crafted meal to be shared amongst friends, artists, curators, and collectors.
Artists and designers Alameda and Carmen pieced together an ambiance inspired by various corners of LA's visual language. Dish-ware from thrift stores, scrap wood tables propped up by OfferUp finds— its arrangement pulled together by a sprawling wooden centerpiece: an assortment of wind-swept branches and roots found along the PCH and in the mountains surrounding Malibu. The table was lit by Carmen's recent sculpture, a wired-up 9-foot revolver, while familiar signs of Alameda peeked through in her jigsaw series tucked along branches, or in screen-printed napkins that made their way across the faces and laps of our quests. Two paintings of theirs hung smartly in the corner of the room in the company of lounge seating.
Koneazny, Lead Chef de Partie at Michelin awarded conceptual restaurant Meteora, developed the night's insane menu in his home kitchen. Over the course of those two (ish) months, Koneazny and Carmen's apartment was littered with food scraps, piled-up dirties, and open books- flipped to French Laundry anthologies and conceptual pop-ups. True to his fast-paced environment, Koneazny's prix fix menu didn't settle until the last second, finding him first in line at the fish market, making those final decisions, day of. Koneazny was joined and assisted that evening by a friend of the scene, Chef Omar Venegas, before his upcoming trip to work and research in Mexico.
The food was great, the hang just as good. Cigarette breaks and wine pours broke up the pacing. It was fun. Everyone stayed way too late. Carmen had to give them the boot so Brant could get to bed at a reasonable time. The cleanup probably kept him up for hours anyway.
Special thank you to Eli Bucksbaum of @studio_maxima_ for sponsoring some seats at the table. Without him, we
Over the past few months, Alex Carmen, Zoe Alameda, and Jonah Koneazny collaborated on a hand-crafted meal to be shared amongst friends, artists, curators, and collectors.
Artists and designers Alameda and Carmen pieced together an ambiance inspired by various corners of LA's visual language. Dish-ware from thrift stores, scrap wood tables propped up by OfferUp finds— its arrangement pulled together by a sprawling wooden centerpiece: an assortment of wind-swept branches and roots found along the PCH and in the mountains surrounding Malibu. The table was lit by Carmen's recent sculpture, a wired-up 9-foot revolver, while familiar signs of Alameda peeked through in her jigsaw series tucked along branches, or in screen-printed napkins that made their way across the faces and laps of our quests. Two paintings of theirs hung smartly in the corner of the room in the company of lounge seating.
Koneazny, Lead Chef de Partie at Michelin awarded conceptual restaurant Meteora, developed the night's insane menu in his home kitchen. Over the course of those two (ish) months, Koneazny and Carmen's apartment was littered with food scraps, piled-up dirties, and open books- flipped to French Laundry anthologies and conceptual pop-ups. True to his fast-paced environment, Koneazny's prix fix menu didn't settle until the last second, finding him first in line at the fish market, making those final decisions, day of. Koneazny was joined and assisted that evening by a friend of the scene, Chef Omar Venegas, before his upcoming trip to work and research in Mexico.
The food was great, the hang just as good. Cigarette breaks and wine pours broke up the pacing. It was fun. Everyone stayed way too late. Carmen had to give them the boot so Brant could get to bed at a reasonable time. The cleanup probably kept him up for hours anyway.
Special thank you to Eli Bucksbaum of @studio_maxima_ for sponsoring some seats at the table. Without him, we
wouldn’t have had the great group that we did.