Sailing boat as experience location in Amsterdam
12-7-2013
The ‘Titaan’ (Dutch for ‘Titan’) is a pure experience-location for meetings and private dining. Leon Verraes and het girlfriend Inge Vermeulen are the owners of the ship since March 2010. The ship is newly built in 2001 by Talsma in Franeker and finetuned in 2002 by SRF in Harlingen. It’s built by ING Real Estate as luxe meeting location for real estate developers and business relations. The ship has a capacity of 70-80 people while boarded, on the water it’s possible to sail with 55 guests.
Hilton cocktails
12-7-2013
Hotel chain Hilton shows how to prepare their cocktails via the Youtube channel. Bartenders from several Hilton hotels in the Caribbean show the secret behind their famous cocktails. What about the Piña Colada in the video above or the Hawaiian Eye Cocktail of the Hilton Hawaiian Village®? Bring the tropical atmosphere of Hilton to your home with these cocktails!
Billboard mini appartments
11-7-2013
The Belgian artist Karl Philips has given billboards an extra function with his project ‘The Good, the Bad, the Ugly’. He renovated old trailer billboards into small apartments. Thanks to the ads on the walls of their temporary house the inhabitants earn some money to live in a billboard. The ads also conceal that these billboards are used as apartments. Earlier we’ve spotted billboards used as a bench, a shelter from the rain or a ramp over stairs.
3D coffee marshmallows
11-7-2013
Latte art and latte 3D art is hot! But if you don’t have a professional barista to serve coffee with beautiful art creations? Serve your guests a cup of coffee with these cute 3D marshmallows. These marshmallows are available in the flavors green tea, cocoa and milk tea. They require no fancy latte art skills, because you just put them in a cup of coffee. Can these 3D marshmallows compete with the real 3D latte art?
Surfing on the Dutch lakes
10-7-2013
The perfect wave in your own backyard? Wavegarden brings the personal lagoon to your backyard, front yard or anywhere you’ve got space for a tiny ocean with waves. Wavegarden is the market leader in designing and developing of a wave generation system, the system is built and tested by professional surfers. This system can create the best waves to give people the ultimate surfing experience. It seems pretty cool to surf on the Dutch lakes! So when will they bring this system to the Netherlands?
Edible fashion
10-7-2013
Last week we published an article about five conceptual dress silhouettes made from organic vegetables and fruit juices exhibited in the lounge bar of the Amsterdam Marriott Hotel. These pictures show the result of these beautiful eat patterns!
Metamorphose Hotel Restaurant Oud London
10-7-2013
Hotel Restaurant Oud London has recently renovated the first 28 of its 88 hotel rooms. The comfort and sustainability were the basic principles by designing the hotel rooms. All rooms have LED lighting and the new furniture is made of recycled teak wood. The rooms have a natural and sustainable look. The rooms have no minibar, but there is a large open cooling at the reception with an assortment of drinks and snacks for ‘to go’.
Take away with style
10-7-2013
At the website of ‘The Special Choice’ you can order culinary dishes online, pay and collect them at the restaurant. This concept allows guests to enjoy culinary delights at home or at work. The dishes are healthy and responsible and prepared with fresh products. The dishes are provided with a quality label with the origin of the ingredients. The dishes are presented in a stylish way on plates with napkins and cutlery. As restaurant owner you can choose to donate a part of the sales to a good cause. The Special Choice takes care of order site, the packaging, the payment and the online promotion. Starting in the Netherlands at this moment.
A sparkling taste of fashion
10-7-2013
From 6 to 16 July the area around the Gashouder factory will be transformed into the fashion destination of the Amsterdam Fashion Week 2013. After London and Berlin, the prosecco of the Italian brand Scavi & Ray will be served during the Fashion Week. So the Italian class and allure will literally be brought to Amsterdam. This prosecco is originally from Veneto and is known for its fresh and fruity aftertaste. The Scavi & Ray is characterized by the exclusive design of the bottle and its motto ‘A sparkling taste of fashion’. By the way, this fresh prosecco is also great to serve on a terrace in the sun.
Grolsch inspires with its corporate story
10-7-2013
Grolsch inspired four artists with stories from its 400 years of history. The corporate story gets a second life with these initiatives. DJ Mark Sixma produced a trance track, fashion designer Jacob Kok created a dress, writer Joost Zwagerman wrote a poem and ice sculpturer Peter Meurders created a giant Grolsch bottle. The project was part of the new Grolsch campaign “400 years of character.
