Swatch Faces Event Venice 2013

page 3 ("Dinner at the Hotel Excelsior")

During the boat ride home to the Hotel Excelsior on the Lido, we watched the beginning of a beautiful sunset.

Two hours off - and then dinner time at 8pm in one of the most beautiful ballrooms we have ever been to with Swatch.  And as you can see in the following pictures, it was decorated in a beautiful, "Swatchy" way.  On the one side of the room:  Three large Swatch advertisement walls with a central hole for taking pictures.  

And on the other side of the room:  Another Swatch Faces wall with many Swatch Club watches and Club Event watches.  Absolutely stunning!

Two artists were also present:  One silhouette artist who cut little black silhouettes of the event participants, in the Swatch Faces style.

And one cartoon artist who sketched little cartoon pictures of the club members.


Henk and Swatch Creative Director Carlo Giordanetti


Paco looks different, very Swiss/German!

We had a very nice three course dinner which we enjoyed very much.  Afterwards, a real surprise was waiting for us behind the Swatch Faces wall:  Time to get active again! 

We were divided randomly into six different groups.  Swatch Creative Director Carlo Giordanetti explained the procedure to us. 

Each group had the task to decorate a cake.  The theme was "Swatch / Swatch Faces / 30 Years of Swatch" of course :-)  Many different (sweet and coloirful) materials were available.  As you can see, everyone got a special Swatch Faces apron.


professional help was also available


It turned out that some professionals and semi-professionals were among us


Our cake (we finished last but had a lot of fun nonetheless :-)

The following pictures do not show the finished cakes!  Most of them looked much better in the end.


Picture by Swatch

The jury consisted of several professional pastry cooks and also of Carlo Giordanetti from Swatch.  He explained the judgement of the jury.  The winning team got a goodie bag for each member, including a "Swatch Faces" chef's hat...


Finished!

This was a lot of fun!  Here are the finished cakes (pictures by Swatch), from last to first:


We finished last :-(


2nd place:  Almost winners


1st place:  Winners!

Click here to read page 4 ("Venice City Tour with City Rally") of my Swatch Faces Venice 2013 Event report.

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