Over the last decade, The Decorators have designed many tables in different shapes, relating to the specific sites in which they were positioned. From a football stadium shaped table in Wembley, London, to a conference table in a disused factory-made up of sliced remnants of the factory furniture, or a tabletop on a dumb waiter system that transported food between a kitchen below and diners above. Each of these tables choreographs specific rituals amongst people, turning them into performing diners. For the expedition, they wanted the visitors to engage with the unknown dimensions of the islands of Azores, and reflect on how energy is channelled across living and non-living entities. For Lagoa das Furnas, they created a long table with a circular cut-out coinciding with a hole on the ground in which food is traditionally cooked by the area’s subterranean volcanic activity. The table enables diners to collectively pull the food pot from the earth onto the tabletop, where it can be opened and its contents eaten. The table celebrates the local ritual of cooking in collaboration with the warm earth below. Made of burned dark wood, and topped with a layer of black lava ash and stones, this table pays homage to heat as a transformative process that turns matter into different states, textures and feelings.