05.07.2007 | 19:13

Volé en 2005

Volé en 2005
“Volé en 2005″ i.e. “Stolen in 2005″, that’s the sentence written under an ashtray of one of the very famous hotel in France. Nice way to build a customer relationship.

1 comment to “Volé en 2005”

  1. | Adriana

    ha ha–I saw something similar at the Widder Hotel in Zurich. The bottom of the ashtray said something like “Stolen from the Widder Hotel” around the hotel logo. I think it’s just a tongue-in-cheek observation that things will inevitably ‘walk away’ from the hotel. This playfulness also increases the desirability of the ’souvenir’ and the ‘coolness factor’ of the hotel, so in a way it encourages people to just take the ashtray (free advertising, perhaps?). Unfortunately I didn’t have a camera with me to snap a picture. (and no, I didn’t steal one-don’t smoke, so I have no use for it…)

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