A recovery package
26-4-2012
New York’s The Pierre hotel and a local plastic surgeon-in-chief Dr. Robert Grant, created a luxury post-operative recovery package. The Pierre Hotel recently underwent a USD 100 million renovation it is now offering woman the luxury and privacy during their recovery. They updated 189 guestrooms and suites as well as the hotel’s banquet and public spaces.
Chocolate with beer filling
19-4-2012
The Brazalian brewer ABInBev’s Skol produced in partnership with chocolaterie Folie and São Paulo ad agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi easter eggs with beer. It seems that this is a seasonal one-off action, but could be a nice variation on the liqueur chocolates.
Ordening drinks with your BlackBerry
10-4-2012
Do you own a BlackBerry? Than you can order your drinks through your phone and do you have direct contact with the bartender, at the Mataysian Jazz Club ‘No Black Tie’. Through BlackBerry Messenger you can communicate with the bar. A nice example of collaboration between a club and a company like BlackBerry.
Chocolate Easter room at Cavendish Hotel
2-4-2012
The Cavendish Hotel in London devised a competition, where the winner and his or her beloved can spend Easter Eve in their special designed chocolate room. Topchocolatiers have done their best to make as many objects as edible such as flowers, slippers and even the toothbrush! In total, more than 100 kilograms of chocolate is used.
MOMMYdinner
28-3-2012
The MAMAdiner (mommy dinner) is a special dinner for new mums (in the Netherlands) to spoil them extra in the postpartum period. The dishes are created by famous chefs and can be prepared by the maternity nurse, partner, friends, family or colleagues.
Dishes inspired by historical In-Flight Menu
26-3-2012
To celebrate British talent 2012 Olympic Games, British Airways are launching an exclusive airline-themed pop-up venue on Shoreditch High Street in London next month. ‘Flight BA2012’ has been exclusively designed to recreate a premium flying experience and looks like the inside of an aircraft. Guests can enjoy a three-course meal created by Michelin-star chef Simon Hulstone that is inspired by the Olympic Games and BA in-flight menus dating back to 1948. BA2012 will be open on select weekdays from April 4th to the 17th.
Music inspired by cocktails
13-3-2012
How does the perfect cocktail sound? ABSOLUT VODKA and the Swedish House Mafia DJs collaborated on a global digital cocktail & music experience to answer that question. The result? ‘Greyhound’, the first house track inspired by ABSOLUT cocktail. The ABSOLUT GREYHOUND cocktail: 1 part Absolut vodka; 3 parts Grapefruit juice!
Special beer for the Kaban at the Kapellerput
8-3-2012
The KABAN at the Kapellerput, Conference Hotel in the Netherlands is known to make a meeting session almost into a party. To celebrate this success they brewed a special triple beer together with The Fontein brewery. The result is a strong lager with 7,5% alcohol. Remarkable is the ingredient gale (herb), which grows on the banks of the pond and was often used in traditional beer.
Self-sufficient farm-restaurant-hotel-amusementpark
8-3-2012
Guest speaker at the Battle of the Cheetahs , Oogst 1000 Wonderland is a design for a self-sufficient farm, restaurant, hotel and amusement park for 1,000 people per day. Food for the restaurant comes from the central structure and directly adjacent fields. They combine fun with usefulness. Hotel guests are also the farmers, when you work, you can stay for free. Oogst 1000 does also has the worlds first toilets that are linked to a bio-gas energy system and were you actually get paid € 0.50 per visit.
Pizza company raises books for Colombia
29-2-2012
Books for Colombia was a joint project between the Spanish airline Iberia, social network ideas4all and Telepizza in Spain. Residents of Madrid could donate books. Telepizza-deliverers carried the books in the empty space in their vehicles to the local Telepizza, from there they were sent via Iberia aircraft to Colombia, where NGO BuenaNota handled the distribution in to 120 libraries and schools throughout the country.