Artist Etienne Meneau has made these amazing sculptural wine decanters, applying some fractal-ness to the design. As a result, they look pretty anatomical when you fill them with red wine: rather like the brachiated patterns of lungs or blood vessels. Bound to be conversation pieces at a party. Hand-made in borosilicate glass and about 60cm tall, they’re in a very limited numbered and signed edition. But vinophile mathematicians or biologists keen to get one might have to save up some cash: each 75cl carafe costs around US$3,400. [Strange Decanter]
Danny
Friday, July 4, 2008 at 1:59 PMWow… but why? No decent improvement in opening the wine up by contact with air, and no extra method of keeping sediment behind. A water jug won’t look as impressive, but it will do a better job of decanting wine than these will.
Looks pretty… pretty useless.