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Why haven’t we realized that even the bottle corks may have lives before? Fortunately it’s still not too late for us to know that truth, and welcome you to this new world of bottle cork animals. They’re made by two Israeli design studios, who packaged all the required body parts in with each bottle of wine, for people to build out a bear, buffalo, bunny, crow, deer or monkey with the cork, so as to recycle your resources in an easy and interesting way.

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Surely people would seem undecided whether to drink or not, if they’re using a weird carafe like this one. Designed by Liviana Osti, the piece is composed of two carafes nestled in the form of a human heart. Once filled with red wine, it will look more like real heart, so weird!

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iPhone? Of course they are, however they’re not real cellphones but iPhone-shaped flasks. Its power switch is actually the flask cap, and it would let out wine when switched on. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Old wine bottles now have their new brighter future, and soon you’ll find them back with the same function as wine cups. After cutting, polishing and other processes, old wine bottles then turn into lovely cups with beautiful decorative patterns, making them still popular at home and in the bars. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Aesthetically shaped and fabricated, the transparent Skybar is an innovative accessory specially made for wine bottles. It keeps wine at optimal serving temperature, illuminates the bottle for convenient reaching in the dark and adds more beauty to wine bottles as well. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Time again we’re convinced on I New Idea that small changes will result into a better life. Just have a look at the wine stopper designed with a twist by George Lee. Made from a food-grade stainless steel and silicone, the new stopper has a sleek and elegant look and also adjustable date rings which can help the users to remember when the wine bottles were opened. Then you’ll never miss the date with your wine. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Matt Braun’s wine bottle can sing! You’d like to know how the bottle works? Well, drink down to a particular level, blow into the bottle and you’ll find it playing a note. Isn’t that great? [Read the rest of this entry...]

With the wine rack designs pushing towards “magic”, we’ve met many bottle holders that feature a single bar to keep balance, like the Magic Floating Bottle and the Le Arc Wine holder. Now there’s a new member in that league- the Golf Club Balancing Wine Bottle Holder. Let us welcome it! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Doing away with those ugly arms found on the top parts of traditional cork stoppers, the Wine & Bar series designed by Aurélien Barbry for Normann Copenhagen include stoppers in three shapes as well as a cork with pouring spout for repeated use. But more importantly, the new series offers elegant and decorative stoppers for wine bottles, and the designer has also found “new shapes and expressions to give new life to the object.” So how do you like them? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Say goodbye to those monotonous parties, ladies! Now you have the Wine Rack Flask Bra! Designed with dual purposes, the bizarre undergarment is also a portable drinking device that can turn A cups into Ds. Even if you’ve sobered all the wine up, you can still retain a sexy look by blowing into the tube. So the Wine Rack Flask Bra can make you women always tipsy and busty on the budget. You’ll love them! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ampro Design’s Design Business Bottle may be the world’s first wine bottle that comes with two necks. It is also packaged in two glasses, separately labeled “our business” and “your business”, and those two parts are attached to each other by a yellow ribbon printed with a word “is”. So in the designers’ opinion, “our business is (rightly) your business”, do you agree with that? Anyhow, the concept does have captured “the essence of our business in connection with the client’s business.” I like it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ferruccio Laviani, a designer from Italym, has been developing some beautiful and elegant bottles for Hennessy Cognac, using a new metallic gold finishing technique. The latest rang of bottle is named as ‘Paradis Horus’, which refers to the god of sun in ancient Egyptian myth. In all, the fire flame shaped bottle and the over-sized stopper have perfectly presented Hennessy Cognac’s super excellent quality. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Drunken driving has long been a hard nut to crack in the management of traffic, and to solve the problem in some extent, A/R Studio has cooperated to design these wine sets, mainly including two special bottles and a series of glasses. And my favorite point is the three scales on one of the bottles. If drinking just a little wine, you’re still allowed to drive back home; drinking half bottle of wine, you’re then suggested to walk back; but if you’ve drunken too much, sorry, you’d better take a taxi. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Have you ever been impressed with the classic ‘The Shawshank Redemption’? In that movie, Shawshank wouldn’t find his way to freedom if he hadn’t gotten the hammer hidden in the Bible. Similarly, you could also do another thing under cover of one book now. Wrapped up by a book, the new wine won’t be noticed even you drink it at work.

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What about drinking the water all around the world? Sounds incredible, right? But that’s just what the delicate liquor dispenser promises to you. With a silver-plated holder and acrylic globe detail, the globe-like drink is always attracting in any occasions.

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