A Long Table at Arc

The table is set before anyone sits down. The light starts to soften. Conversations begin standing up, glass or can in hand.

This is the moment we pictured before it happened. - the vision of LEAU was to be in this exact scene. 

A community dinner in Zurich

At the Arc Pop Up in Zurich this summer, Aida Nemanti Forghani of Empathy Visions gathered a selected guest list around one long table. There were creatives, friends, and people building something of their own. It was a dinner made to be shared intentionally. 

LEAU was on that table. Somewhere between the first pour and the last course, it stopped feeling like a brand in the room and started feeling like part of it. That is when LEAU became part of the community. Seeing our vision come to life still feels incredibly beautiful and special. 

Designed to belong on the table

When we designed the can, we pictured exactly this: a long table, set with care, and a can that could sit on it without competing with anything around it.

A can rarely feels like part of a table’s design. We wanted ours to. That is why it is sleek, minimal and quiet in colour, made to complement a tablescape rather than pull focus from it. Set among Lara Roos’s table design, it did what we hoped it would: it belonged.

DAY to welcome, NIGHT to sit down

Before dinner, there is DAY. It’s bright and citrus, light in the hand while the room finds its rhythm. It’s the welcome drink you hold mid-conversation, before anyone has found their seat.

When everyone sits down, there is NIGHT. It’s soft lavender and lightly sparkling, a gentle palate cleanser between courses. NIGHT is made for the wind-down, and just as much for the hour when the sun goes down over a long table and the evening settles in. It’s a quiet exhale between one course and the next, alongside a dinner cooked by Onda Catering.

The people who brought it to life

An evening like this is never one person’s work. Thank you to Aida for the vision and for inviting us to be part of it, and to everyone who made the table what it was:

• Produced by: Empathy Visions / Aida Nemanti Forghani
• Table design: Lara Roos
• Dinner: Onda Catering
• Photography: Ekatarina Fusssinger
• Location + Production: Arc Pop Up, Zurich

Where LEAU belongs

This is what we imagined when we first thought about LEAU at an event: on the table, in the hand, part of the evening rather than apart from it.

Water you feel.

Bring LEAU to your table. 
Hosting something of your own? We’d love to hear about it. hello@leauwater.com