Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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My Extraordinary Life
Just when you thought ice cream couldn’t get any cooler, we partnered with Häagen-Dazs to conceive an explosion of multi-sensory ice cream experiences.
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Gingerbread Castle Howard
Bompas & Parr’s principal love of architecture and confectionary collided with a spectacular commission to make a scale model of Castle Howard, a stately home in Yorkshire.
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Mysterium
In December 2016, Bompas & Parr helped take 1,600 guests on a journey to Neuland – a conceptual land of enlightenment filled with sensory delights that defied all expectations.
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Fridges Fight Back
House fires caused by tumble dryers may be attracting headlines but fridges, while exalted and celebrated as socially desirable indicators of social status, are under-recognised as cause of fires that can destroy homes and kill people every year.
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The Joy of Bees
Bompas & Parr curated the world’s most extensive art installation dedicated to some of the rarest honeys in the world. A four-floor townhouse in Soho was transformed into a golden hive of activity for Relais & Chateaux, the international hotel group, featuring an immersive experiential art installation and gastronomic tasting of honeys collected from its properties worldwide.
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Beyond the Waterfall
A cocktail odyssey
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Cake Holes
This is a project exploring the strange underbelly of food and eroticism. When we first set up Bompas & Parr as a company, one of the first calls we got was an inquiry about wether we catered for splosh parties. Innocently we looked online to see what this might involve – to find a seamy scene were folks get turned on by sitting in puddles of baked beans. This exchange provided the inspiration for a series of photos of people sitting on cakes, in collaboration with fashion photographer Jo Duck. The photos are paired with a sensual and luxurious film by Bompas & Parr, both are alarming but intriguing. Each participant chose their own dessert to sit on then filled out a detailed questionnaire ranging from more mundane questions about the favourite dishes to how they would solve the greatest challenges to humanity today.
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Voice of God
For this year’s Merge Bankside Festival, Bompas & Parr is collaborated with Hilton Bankside to present an audio-based installation so powerful it appears to connect you with the supernatural.
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Mr. Twit’s Odious Ale
For the gloriously gruesome theatrical dining experience Dinner at the Twits, Bompas & Parr teamed up with 40FT Brewery to create Mr Twit’s Odious Ale.
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Night of the Oneironaut
The mysteries and wonders of sleep, the subconscious and the world of dreams was laid bare for the grand opening of the new Citizen M flagship hotel in Tower Hill.
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