We’re all packed and ready to go on vacation today! Therefore: for the next 8 days, box vox won’t be updated as frequently. I do have a couple of posts timed to go up automatically next week. (But not every day.)
Where are we going? I really can’t say... but one thing I definitely plan on doing while we’re there is to check out Fabrice Peltier’s DesignPack Gallery:
Located at 24 rue de Richelieu, between the Louvre Museum, Decorative Arts and the National Library, the Designpack Gallery is a space dedicated exclusively to the art of packaging design.
Fabrice Peltier is also the founder of the agency, P’Référence and writes a regular column for Emballages Magazine. And (as if that weren’t enough) he also makes artwork from discarded packaging.
(See his Christmas-Tree-as-Recycling-Bin project, after the fold...)
Vintage Toledo Hotel soap. Photo by Flickr user Ms. Atomic.
My job requires me to live in a hotel three nights a week, so I've gotten to know my hotel soaps pretty well. As a lover of all things miniature and complimentary, hotel soaps delight me to no end. The ones that I have now are more or less functional, but I've gotten really swanky-looking amenities, notably in hotels in Asia.
Hotel soap can have a large impact (negative or positive) on the image of comfort and/or luxury that a hotel is trying to provide. But it's uniquely challenging because it must be economical in terms of space as well as production costs.
In honor of hotel soap (and every mom's habit of collecting millions of them and hoarding them in a box under the sink... "just in case"), here's a roundup of some soaps I wish I had the good fortune of finding in my hotel bathroom.
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