Am embarrassed that I’m only just learning of Sam Bompas and Harry Parr via the New York Times, but I am quite certain we’re artistic soulmates. The artists make architectural jelly molds, host culinary events like a Peter Greenaway scratch n’ sniff cinema, made the dessert for a 100th anniversary celebration of the Marinetti’s Futurist Cookbook in New York and their latest later this month, Alcoholic Architecture, a “walk-in cloud of breathable cocktail.”
"Being in hospital over Christmas can be tough. The world’s most sophisticated dessert trolley provided patients with a diverting spectacle that touched their most sensitive organ – the belly. Liveried waiters in white tie served a huge gingerbread Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe – visible from the hospital), a mountain of jelly and instant dry-ice ice cream. The fine dining experience was heightened by a ballgowned harpist playing classical music on her vast instrument."
"The UK’s first Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Cinema showing Peter Greenaway’s classic, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover opened for Valentine’s Day this year. Bompas & Parr created aromas including ‘rotting meat’ and ‘dusty books’ that captured the scent of key moments of Greenaway’s film. These aromas were micro-encapsulated and printed onto special scratch ‘n’ sniff cards for everyone in the audience."
Freezing rain covered the shiny grey boots, powdery rubber sloshing through dampened streets and sleet-ridden sidewalks.
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