Lee Broom for Ballantines Ritual
From their second outing together, fast-risen young UK superstar interior/product designer Lee Broom celebrates Ballantine’s 12-year-old blended Scotch with the Lee Broom for Ballantines Ritual whiskey tasting service. What looks at first like a traditional crystal decanter is in fact a whiskey glass at the base, with notes and aroma sealed in, a middle section...
WineHive
The WineHive‘s flat, recycled aluminum panels interlock to form an infinitely expandable wine rack. It is a pleasingly simple invention, consisting of only just the one part, and many configuration possibilities. Satin finish. Made in America. Funding on Kickstarter, and also available on preorder, in packs of 12 that accommodate 5 bottles. $49.99. MORE! »...
Miniwiz Re-Wine
Collect ‘em and win is kind of the literal concept behind Miniwiz Re-Wine, interlocking packaging for wine that can be re-purposed into a modular storage system—the garbage becomes the wine rack. Pretty cool trick. This is what Taipei-based upcycler Miniwiz does, find ways to turn unwanted industrial byproducts and consumer trash into new, high performance...
Henrybuilt Wine Storage System
A one-stop solution for organizing your quite possibly extensive wine collection, the custom-fabricated Henrybuilt Wine Storage System combines the flexibility of a European-style modular system, with individually-handcrafted quality. The System consists of panels, rods and support bars designed to hold bottles at a precise angle. Materials and configuration are absolutely flexible—a personally tailored solution is...
Qbist Bar
Mathematically elegant, the Qbist Bar, an homage to English mathematician and renowned puzzle creator Henry Dudeney by Italy’s Opinion Ciatti, is a parallelepiped, a three-dimensional figure formed by six parallelograms (sometimes aka a rhomboid, in the 3D sense). What this means in practical furnishing terms is a four-section unit that can be arranged into all...
Arkitetura DEN Bicycle Stand
New Paris-based architecture and design firm, Arkitetura, indulges its passion for cycling with side projects, the first being the Arkitetura DEN Bicycle Stand. It is fabricated from epoxy-coated steel, comes with optional shelving, and is clearly sculpturally practical. Available in a limited run of 100.
Finn Magee’s Flat Life
Product designer Finn Magee uses advertising techniques to make what he calls critical objects, things that make you think. His fun and functional Flat Life life series—Flat Sound, Flat Time, Flat Light—employs various bits of skinny tech to make what look like flat, 2D posters actually work. Flat Sound lets you pump sound through your...
Puma Blackout Table Tennis Table
A sleek playing surface, a superb home-sports furnishing statement, the Puma Blackout Table Tennis Table is all that. Created for Puma by New York design strategy and product consultancy, aruliden, the Blackout is designed to elevate the ping pong table from basement rec rooms, to a place upstairs, right beside other fine furniture. It comes...
Daniel Weil Making Time
A selling exhibition at auctioneer Sotheby’s, Daniel Weil Making Time combines two excursions into clock-making by renowned London-based industrial designer and former Royal College of Art professor, Daniel Weil. There are 12 clocks in all. Four are from the recent A Matter of Time series, each timepiece interpreted for a calling—acrobat (above), architect, astronomer and...