Picnicking on the water

3-7-2012

This summer, the Picknick Company (Dutch) offers picnics on the water in and around Rotterdam. A private captain shows you by boat all the nice picnic places.

Knoll Ridge Cafe on a special location

3-7-2012

In New Zealand’s oldest national park, which is a ski resort and on the edge of an active vulcano, this Knoll Ridge Cafe is built. The restaurant can withstand sub-zero temperatures, wind speeds of up to 125 miles per hour and heavy snowfall during the winter. Besides the beautiful panoramas, the architecture flows perfectly over into the surroundings.

Special Japanese restaurant

3-7-2012

At the end of 2011, this Japanse Tori Tori restaurant and lounge opened its doors in Mexico City. Watch the website for more pictures.

Lunch Hour NYC

2-7-2012

From the 29th of June, the New York Public Library opened the exhibition Lunch Hour NYC. This exhibition features all the lunch trends of over the past century. Find out how the pizza became popular in New York City, and when the first Chinese restaurants opened their doors. Did you know that the foodtrucks were already popular about a century ago…?

Sneak peeking at the neighbors

2-7-2012

Everybody does is secretly, but now you can undisturbed sneak peeking at the neighbors. Artist Mike Hewson created an artwork of a destroyed building in Christchurch in New Zealand. Several photo’s and multi-media installations are mounted on the outside of the building, where life of the former residents are shown.

Solar BBQ

28-6-2012

Barbecuing with the SOLGRILL solar bbq is very sustainable, very fast, you don’t have any pre-heating time and it includes a built-in sun view finder. The only thing you need is the sun…

Food photography

28-6-2012

Big Appetites is an exhibition of artist Chistopher Boffoli. With this photo’s he is referencing to as well a cultural fascination with tiny things as well as an American enthusiasm for excess. This exhibition is open to visit between the 21st of July through August 24th in New York.

Olympic Coca Cola

28-6-2012

Specially for the coming Olympic Games in London, Coca Cola designed this bottle, only available at Selfridges.

Mobile hospitality wins design award

27-6-2012

Mobile Gastfreundschaft is a winner of DMY International Design Festival 2012 Award. The project took place in 2011 in Austria, Feldkirch and Vaduz. Mobile Gastfreundschaft pays attention to an important aspect of the design by Chmararosinke; the responsibility and the self initiative in public space. An example how to play with our environment… Watch the video.

Cock and bull on formaldehyde in restaurant

27-6-2012

A bit freaky; Damien Hirst has made an artwork with a cock and bull on formaldehyde for Mark Hix’s Tramshed restaurant in East London. The animals refer to the typical beef & chicken menu. Apart from the huge container there are several other artworks, like a painting ‘Cow & Chicken’ painting from the popular Cartoon Network series in the nineties.

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