Custom tabletop displays
Custom culinary display towers designed and hand-made by a chef
Elevated and completely unique offerings for your next dinner party. Serve your best tiny bites in style on stainless steel culinary towers.
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Towers and Displays
A showstopping standalone seafood tower available for your next outdoor gathering. This stainless steel tiered display holds ice for directly plating upon the perforated steel and easy drainage of excess water. Hooks, ledges and other points dot the surface of this seafood tower, lending itself as a vessel to plate and display fish, as well as hang citrus, florals or any other ephemera you desire.
Stainless steel, silicone food-safe coated surface.
Dimensions: 6’ tall, 4’ wide, 3’ diameter.
Rentals begin at $375 a day.
Image credits: Food by Little Hat, photography by Em Ferretti.
A one of kind multipurpose tower for your next party’s oyster needs. Styled as an oyster and seafood tower, this tabletop piece knows no bounds and can hold cupcakes, bread, fruit… the world is your oyster.
Stainless steel, silicone food-safe coated surface.
Dimensions: 10” tall, 20” wide, 7” diameter.
Rentals begin at $175 a day.
Image credits: Food and food styling by Natalie Reeves, photography by Oscar Mendoza.
One of our most-loved pieces, the Butterfly Small Bites Tower was inspired by working with Chef Natalie Reeves on her gorgeous and delicate small bites. Designed to hold many small appetizers at once, the perforated steel mesh leaflets are tiny plates for your food to shine. Perfect for gatherings where bites can be lifted up from the table to truly stand out.
Stainless steel, silicone food-safe coated surface.
Dimensions: 28” tall, 16.5” wide. 20 small bite plates.
Rentals begin at $225 a day.
Image credits: Food and food styling by Natalie Reeves, photography by Oscar Mendoza.
About Surprise Diet
I’m Emory Hall, first and foremost a chef. I used to work in restaurants and then went to art school, learned to weld and began to try to integrate the two halves of cooking and making art. I started to make custom tables and tabletop towers for parties, mostly all made of stainless steel. I weld in my studio in Lincoln Heights and also make a few other things, all centered around utility in forms of organic beauty. All of my welding work is self-taught and influenced by intuition, not machine-enhanced or seamless in nature. Wobbly forms, imperfect symmetry and bumpy texture inform the natural aesthetic. Vines, petals and other botanical forms allow for fairytale and ornate structures to hold delicate bites and prized produce.
I’m most inspired by chef friends and collaborators and what they cook for their clients or themselves. A long conversation with a fellow chef will often inspire the next steel piece and put into language a shared idea for how to serve food more elegantly.
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