Pink Eggs Are Expensive
This is very weird. Have you ever been on line looking for something and you get caught up with something else on the page, a link, that takes you to another page, and another and before you know it you are 20 clicks away from where you started, finding yourself on a Swiss lighting website looking at exit signs (a little man running towards the arrow) that are all over Europe thinking how you could write a post about that and then you click something else but you don’t know what or why because it is in a language you can’t identify but there are umlouts so it looks German-ish but maybe not and then you find this……
A sketch by Karim Rashid (who, by the way, I think is fantastic) of a bottle sitting in the the middle of what appears to be a pink egg perhaps. You keep digging and you find this…..
a real Champagne bottle sitting in the middle a pink and silver egg shaped thing and you still don’t get it so you keep digging, clicking, reading…….
finally, you hit pay dirt……..
This is not an egg….what was I thinking!?!? This is Mr. Rasid’s “reinvention” of the chandelier if you will that is a glowing pink champagne holder that doubles as a cooler. The Globalight. And this is not just any Champagne, it’s Veuve Cliquot, the Champagne of our friend Madame Guilinol, mentioned in yesterday’s post. This “thing” for lack of a better word uses state of the art technology to provide a soft pink glow in honor of the Rosé Champagne it was created for. The technology keeps it lit without heating up and will chill your champagne to the ideal temp for up to two hours. This little goodie is limited to 500 world-wide, with only 50 available in the U.S. For those of you interested, it will be available on Eclicquot in May for $4,000. If you miss out on this by somehow not adding it to your cart fast enough, Mr. Rasid teamed with this chapagne house last year creating a love seat, patterned after an 18th century arm-chair that holds you, your honey and a bottle of the pink bubbly. Price tag: $10,000.
OH LA LA!
Photo credits: Coolhunting, NOTCOT
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1 opinion for Pink Eggs Are Expensive
Finta
Apr 20, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Oh my, have you looked at that closely?
Georgia O’Keefe-esque, to say the least.
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