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Dinner at the Twits
Bompas & Parr collaborated with an interactive theatre group to present a dining experience with a difference: at the table of Roald Dahl’s most revolting protaganists Mr and Mrs Twit.
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Le Savoir
Le Savoir is a collaboration between Bompas & Parr and Cirque du Soleil producers 45 Degrees for Stella Artois and is an immersive dining experience promising four seasons in one glass.
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Jelly Parlour of Wonders
To celebrate Bompas & Parr’s ninth birthday, the studio launched the Jelly Parlour of Wonders in London’s most famous department store Harrods. The installation represented the first retail range of Bompas & Parr’s unique approach to jelly.
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Sausage Social
For World Design Capital Taipei 2016, Alice Wang Design Studio invited Bompas & Parr to reinvent the traditional night market experience.
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Institute of Flavour
Bompas & Parr invited the public to be part of a revolutionary new ‘crowd-seasoning’ initiative allowing them to pick a revolutionary new flavour for popcorn maker Propercorn out of hundreds of thousands of possibilities.
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Romancing the Armpit
Bompas & Parr presented the world’s first armpit sniffing date night, where shared olfactory stimulation became an unpredictable platform for the intimate exploration of our most infamous sweat glands. In contrast to conventional speed dating nights, our musky lotharios donned a paper bag to mask their faces, leaving potential lovers to sniff out their suitability to romance, maybe more.
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Fleurs des Rêves
“Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New”. Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
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The Sensory Accumulator
The recently opened Thornton’s store in Westfield Stratford was home to a bespoke ‘Sensory Accumulator’ created by Bompas & Parr.
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Edible Biography Banquet
At Sydney’s Cell Block Theatre of Darlinghurst Gaol, the legendary tale of Australia’s first brewer, James Squire, was brought to life as the world’s first ‘Edible Biography’. A seven-course feast drew inspiration from James Squire’s richly varied life story, as guests relived James Squire’s journey from criminal on the First Fleet to Australia’s most celebrated brewer. The story was told through an actor in various guises: the First Fleet boatswain, James Squire’s fellow highwayman and clergyman to lead the funeral.
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Alcoholic Architecture
Monastic themed bar featuring a walk-in cloud of breathable cocktail. It built on a concept for breathable, spatialised alcohol originally developed by the studio in 2009.
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