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Past Commissions
Four occasions.
No repeated formula.
Selected stories told through the decisions that made each gathering singular.
The work, considered in context
01 / The archive
An occasion is remembered
in fragments.
A place. A flavor with a private history. The exact moment a room changes. A commission is best understood through what the host asked for, what the setting required, and what guests encountered when the doors opened. Client names and private details are withheld.
02 / Spring Green
A house
of ideas.
Taliesin · Plated dinner · Coffee ritual
The brief
Create a deeply personal reception at the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Center for a couple planning from outside Wisconsin, without allowing distance to flatten the experience.
The architecture
Grazing opened the evening before a three-entrée plated dinner of salmon, herbed tri-tip, and apple-cider chicken with fall salad, fingerling potatoes, broccolini, and heirloom carrots. Vanilla-bean and blackberry ice creams completed the meal.
What made it theirs
A family of serious coffee drinkers inspired a vintage-carafe coffee ritual at the close. The final chapter came from who they were, not from a house template.
03 / Madison
The museum
in motion.
MMoCA · Food stations · Rooftop reception
The food moved like the room.
The brief
Build a reception that allowed guests to move through MMoCA, discover the menu in chapters, and remain present with one another.
The architecture
Bacon-jalapeño burger bites, chicken-and-waffle sliders, Thai peanut rolls, Korean tacos, street corn, and curry chicken appeared across a progression of stations. Culinary presentation, setup, bistro lighting, service, and breakdown were treated as one continuous production.
What made it theirs
There was no single fixed dining moment. Guests chose their own pace while every detail still belonged to the same story.
04 / Verona
Forty years,
set out to graze.
Anniversary soirée · Grazing installation · Small bites
The brief
Celebrate four decades of a wedding-planning company with an evening that felt more like discovery than a conventional dinner.
The architecture
A game-day grazing stadium and fruit-and-cheese installation held the room while watermelon-feta bites, purple potatoes with horseradish crème fraîche, and miniature Korean tacos brought bright, playful detail to the celebration.
What made it theirs
The milestone appeared in the room, but the food carried the celebration: abundant, graphic, easy to share, and designed for guests to enter from every side.
05 / Collaborative production
One kitchen.
More than one voice.
Private corporate celebration · Guest-chef collaboration · On-site production
The brief
Produce a private corporate celebration alongside Food Network personality Damaris Phillips while keeping the host’s occasion, rather than a recognizable name, at the center.
The architecture
Guest-chef recipe direction and the Twisted Radish production system met in one working kitchen. TRC coordinated development, culinary staffing, timing, service, and on-site execution so every contribution arrived as one coherent experience.
What made it theirs
The collaboration was visible in the food, but it never became a piece of borrowed celebrity. It became part of a private host’s evening, translated through the room, the service, and the people at the table.
Photography · Wind Willow Photography
The principle
Bespoke is not
a visual style.
It may be a disciplined plated dinner, a table filled with familiar food, or a chef finishing each bite while moving through the room. The common element is intention.
