Ever wondered what it would be like enjoying your choicest dinner up in the clouds? Here is a chance to find out at the Dinner in the Sky Restaurant.
Dinner in the Sky started off in Europe and has also caught on with the US. This lofty and portable restaurant serves dinner in a table suspended 165 feet in the air with chairs that spin 180 degrees. It is suspended by a 90 to 160 tonne crane with a maximum seating capacity of 22 people around a 5000 kilogram table and the threesome of the waiter, chef and entertainer in a space in the middle. The Dinner in the SKY sessions are of 8 hours and costs around $11,444, without the catering facilities.
Moreover, Dinner in the Sky can be set up just about anywhere and customized according to the client’s tastes. Additional cranes can also be added for simultaneous events like a product promotion, car launch etc. at the same height.
Transforming the definition of a toilet - a simple utility to an item of décor, Wendy Gold specializes in the art of designing toilet seats. The brain behind this unique art de toilette, Wendy gained recognition in 2001, after launching a line of high profile toilet seats in San Francisco. The exclusive style and design of the art de toilette seats lured many to earn Wendy several contracts worldwide that included hotels, restaurants, collectors and businesses. More so, Wendy’s seats were bought by celebrities, such as John Travolta, Jack Nicholson and Jude Law.
In 2003, Wendy came up with a new line of bathroom art, adding nine different custom-designed scales. These handcrafted scales with a unique touch could bestow fun and frivolity to almost any toilet. The fully customizable art de toilette seats allow anything ranging from a fine statement to photos and memorabilia. Wendy charges only half of the cost upon ordering and requests the customer for a mock-up of the design, upon approval she personally works with the client to make the theme come alive, matching the bathroom décor.
Popular in countries of Southeastern Asia as well as Taiwan and China, Grass jelly is a delicious jelly-like dessert available in cans and packets made by boiling leaves or grass of mint family with potassium carbonate. The preparation of Grass jelly differs according to countries. Often the jelly is mixed with syrup to produce a drink with cooling (yin) properties. The clear, deep brown liquid with strands or cubes of translucent blackish jelly has a slight iodine flavor. At times, it is also coalesced with soymilk to produce a milky white liquid with black strands.
Known as black jelly (Cincau hitam) in Indonesia, it is produced as an instant powder, which is easier to use. Here, it is made from leaves of Mesona palustris, or other plants - Cyclea barbata, known as Cincau Hijau and Melastoma polyanthum, known as Cincau perdu. It is often blended with an assortment of Southeast Asian desserts, especially chendol and ice kachang. Whereas in China, grass jelly is mostly served with other ingredients such as watermelon, cantaloupe mango or sago. The scenario is even more diverse in Vietnam, where the jelly is a popular drink amongst women who believe that the drink enhances fertility.
After the Great Wall of China and the Grand Canal, China is building the largest hydroelectric power station in the world, in terms of capacity. The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam spanning the course of the river Yangtze in Yichang, Hubei, Sandouping, China. This mammoth project undertaken by China is expected to increase the dam’s total electricity generating capacity to 22,500 megawatts – highest in the world.
Made of 28,000,000 cubic meters of concrete and 463,000 metric tones of steel, as would be required for 63 Eiffel Towers, the Three Gorges Dam walls are 185 meters high and about 2,335 meters long. The wall is 40 meters wide on top and extends 115 meters on the bottom. The Dam’s reservoir is 1.12 kilometers wide and 600 kilometers long on average and encloses a capacity of 39.3 billion cubic meters of water at a level of 175 m. With several generators yet to be installed, the Dam is expected to start operations by 2011.
Unique watches with a transparent case, exposing the inner workings – Skeleton Watches offer the most intricate and fascinating designs ever seen. The mechanically run skeleton timepieces are spring driven and uses measuring devices and complex gears to keep time. The manufacturers of Skeleton Watches delicately remove nearly seventy percent of the metal typically with most non-skeletonized watches to attain the skeleton effect. Moreover, some of the exclusive Skeleton Watches are intricately engraved.
One of the striking pieces of work, NakedWatch Tailored Tourbillon Skeleton though without a modification offers a unique pleasure of having ‘One of a Kind’ Tourbillon skeleton. The bespoke skeleton encloses a range of customizable features. The NakedWatch Tailored Tourbillon Skeleton can be plated in Rose gold or embellished with solid Rose gold having screws, case-back or crown. All the watches are configured to meet the tastes and styles of each bearer. However, the price for each of the custom configuration varies with the features enclosed in the timepieces.
Introducing a new generation of restaurant, Nurnberg-based ’s Baggers restaurant in Germany presents an innovative concept of self service. A brainchild of Micheal Mack, an enthusiast cook – conceived the idea during the days when he had to rush for kitchen to dinning room during the dinner parties. ’s Baggers revised the traditional style to focus on increased efficiency and better customer service, and all this at a reduced cost.
With the new facilities, the customers at ’s Baggers can choose their own tables, and can order for their food and drinks through a touch screen self-help kiosk situated at the table. Each of the tables has one to two touch screens. Once the orders are made – freshly prepared, sumptuous meals and drinks are delivered directly to the customer’s table through a special track. It is for the first time that a restaurant offers state-of-the-art information technology in a restaurant – access to internet.
Adding to indulgence, from Franconian delicacies to sausages with Kraut, accompanied by an elegant ambiance and excellent service, ’s Baggers makes its mark as a restaurant of third dimension.
Encompassing a nimbus of creativity, Arts Reverie is an alluring house set in the heritage enclave in the midst of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India. The specially designed guesthouse offers an ideal destination for arts professionals, cultural practitioners and creative thinkers. Reverie is where new ideas foster and turns to work. With an aesthetical ambiance, the house perfectly hosts artists, musician, dancers, photographers, writers, poets, architects, playwrights, visiting curators, cultural study experts, academics, and other creative professionals.
An hour’s flight from Bombay, India, the guesthouse provides a great exposition parallel to a home stay experience in the bustling city. The exclusive house was set up by experienced managers Jeremy Theophilus and Barney hare duke of A Fine Line: Cultural Practice, based in the UK, Anupa Mehta of Art Works, India. They have built a house for great artists with nurturing ambitions offering a confluence of various art forms and cultures around the world.
A great opportunity to enjoy the real essence of nature midst the forests, Ewok-style tree houses are especially designed, spherical houses that can be hung from the trees or rocks. The eco-friendly house crafted by a Canadian carpenter, Tom Chudleigh perfectly accommodates four. The waterproof exterior of the Free Spirit Spheres are made out of wood and coated with fiberglass and can be put up within three days by three people.
Unlike the foundations of conventional, the Ewok-style tree houses when suspended from trees use the forest as its foundation. The house stands on a web of rope connected to strong points. Each of the spheres has four anchor points on the bottom and four attachments on the top. Each of the attachments is solid enough to sustain the entire sphere and the materials within it.
The interior of the house encloses a microwave, fridge and sink, working kitchen and can be customized by adding in beds and bronze doors. However, all these luxuries doesn’t come cheap, it costs about $45,000 to get the sphere alone and $152,000 for the complete house.
