Get creative with Villeroy & Boch tableware at this year’s Hotelympia

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Villeroy & Boch are challenging Hotelympia’s visitors to get creative. Show off your design skills by drawing your very own pattern on one of the brand’s iconic NewWave plates. Create the most memorable tableware design and you could you win a voucher worth £250 to enjoy lunch or dinner in the 10 in 8 restaurant of your choiceThe restaurants to choose from include*

• L’ortolan, based in Reading, Berkshire and already boasting one Michelin Star under Alan
Murchison’s name.
• La Bécasse, based in Ludlow, Shropshire now run by the young and highly talented Chef Will Holland and also proudly carrying one Michelin Star.
• Paris House in Woburn which the group opened in February 2010 and was awarded one
Michelin-star in January 2011
• The group’s newest acquisition Restaurant Angélique in Dartmouth, which opened in January 2011.

Just stop by the Villeroy & Boch Stand, No N2019 at Hotelympia where the team will be ready and waiting to help you create your winning plate design. When your artwork is complete the team will upload a photograph of all entries to the H and C News Facebook page, where voting will take place for one month following the show.

The plate that gets the most votes will then be announced in TableTalk, the H and C News website and the H and C News Facebook page. All that’s left for the winner to do is to decide which of the 10 in 8 restaurants you want to experience.

Daniel Fountain / 21.02.2012

Editor, Hotel Designs

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