Jelly moulding wizardry, neon lakes and
crazy golf with bakewell tarts; Bompas & Parr have been hailed as the 20th
century Willy Wonker...but we think they’re way cooler. The two friends began making bespoke jelly moulds in 2007
and before they knew it they were feeding a Prime
Minister and Heston Blumenthal with their creative delights. Now Sam Bompas and Harry Parr, who turned the River Lea emerald green last month, wow the world with their psychadelic
experiences and artworks. ilovgorgeous were so intrigued by the mischievous duo
that we tracked Sam Bompas down in his lab to ask him some questions...
If you were a fruit what would you
be?
A durian fruit... I'm obsessed with
the eerily flavoured flesh. The fruits are so pungent that they are banned on
public transport across South East Asia. My grandfather got so into them that
he once ended up in hospital with durian fever for eating too many (and not
drinking whisky like locals do to balance it out). I eat all I can get my hands
on!
If you could create a crazy Bompas &
Parr lunchbox, what would you put in it?
Candy sticks, pastel finger
sandwiches, marbled quails eggs.
What did you want to be when you were
growing up?
A lawyer. Doing this is far more fun!
Where would be the ultimate place to
pull off a Bompas & Parr spectacle?
In the stomach of a living whale
(without injuring it).
What's been your favourite
experiment/project so far?
Exploding jellies, and also the
Truvia Voyage of Discovery where we flooded the roof of Selfridges to create a
boating lake and float-up bar.
If you could create a Bompas & Parr ice cream flavour, what would it be?
Old champagne sorbet
Jelly pebbles, exploding jelly,
stripy jelly... you have done it all! Can you still bare to eat jelly?!
We keep learning new things with
jelly - there are ever more creative challenges. At the moment we are working
on filling the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with jelly. We've worked out the
engineering challenges already....
Bompas & Parr have many cool projects coming up that are set to amaze; like the wedding cake explosion service, Guinness tasting and their latest fruity installation, “The IncrEdibles” at Kew Gardens. We had to go see it for ourselves, and loved it so much that we are running a competition to give away a family
ticket to Kew gardens including the Bompas & Parr fruit salad boating experience.
You can teach your little ones about the weird and wonderful world of edible plants, visit a floating pineapple island and discover the banana grotto beneath. We loved it and we know you will too, so take a sneak peak at our photos below and ENTER HERE!
To compliment Bompas & Parr’s tropical installation they have self published their own juicy book “Tutti Frutti”. You can pick your favouite fruity cover with a peelable fruit sticker title - view on their wesbsite here
What a fun Blog Post, I love the fun idea of creating with Jelly! Kids love fun food.
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