b.a.r. at Basecamp

The bar at Basecamp grew out of ongoing conversations with Grace Lostia on how the kitchen might spill into the main space. The idea was simple but important: to bring cooking and gathering into the same field, so that sharing food and sharing words could meet in one continuous setting.

Its making was guided less by a fixed design than by dialogue—with each other, and with the materials at hand. We worked only with leftovers from BAK’s past exhibitions (except for the sink), piecing together boards and surfaces that already carried their own histories. The bar emerged step by step, shaped by what these fragments could become together.

Somewhere in the process, the shelf mushroom came up as a reference—growing outward in layers, attaching itself to what already exists. It felt like an image that quietly stayed with us, without ever dictating the form.

For me, the bar is less an object than a setting—an infrastructure for conviviality, resilience, and imagination. At Basecamp, where unbuilding and rebuilding is a practice, the b.a.r. takes shape as a place to pause, to meet, and to rehearse other possibilities together.