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London designers Studio Toogood have created a temporary wine bar in Sydney where guests are invited to select their vintage by smelling scented totem poles.

Trained wine stewards guide the visitors around each of the five wooden poles, as well as past a series of glass display cabinets where objects and imagery represent a palette of different flavours.

Next, each guest is led to a table where a group of spherical lamps representing grapes are bunched overhead behind wire netting.

A collection of hand-cast aluminium chairs from Studio Toogood’s Spade range provides seating.

The bar is positioned at the centre of the room, surrounded by sausage-like sofas.

After five weeks, the bar will relocate to a second venue in Melbourne.

Read more about the Spade chair in our earlier story, or see more projects by Studio Toogood here.

Photography is by Paul Barbera.

Here’s some more information from  Studio Toogood:

THE BLOCKS

One of the worldʼs most sought-after wine brands, Penfolds, is collaborating with renowned London-based designers Studio Toogood to create an ambitious multi- sensory environment dedicated to wine.

Designed to demystify the process of vinification, THE BLOCKS encourages visitors to discover and awaken their palate using sight, touch, smell and taste.

Studio Toogoodʼs first installation outside Europe will initially be unveiled in Australia on the 16th March in Sydneyʼs last remaining undeveloped, historic wharf building: Pier 2/3.

This three week event will then travel to Melbourne in late July.

Upon entering THE BLOCKS, visitors will be greeted by trained sommeliers – ʻThe Nosesʼ – who will take guests on a journey through five imperious wooden totems.

Inspired in form by the five groups of grapes available for tasting – and impregnated with different bespoke scents produced in conjunction with a perfumer for the event – the totems have been designed to guide guests to select the appropriate wines to suit their personal palate.

Not content with stimulating the nose, Studio Toogood asks guests to drink with their eyes by revealing glass cabinets filled with highly visual, poetic interpretations of the terminology normally associated with describing wine by five emerging Australian artists and designers.

Once inside the installation, guests will be able to indulge in Penfolds Bin and Luxury wines, complemented by locally foraged and seasonal tastes designed by Executive Chef Jock Zonfrillo (Magill Estate).

To complete this gastronomic experience, guests will be seated under canopies of illuminated glass grapes on Faye Toogoodʼs iconic ʻSpadeʼ chairs.

Hand-cast from raw aluminium specifically for the event, the ʻSpade Chair / Naked Aluminiumʼ is cold to the touch, reminding guests of their cellar-like experience.

Gilbert 13, a product design outfit out of North West UK, is pleased to present their latest offering, the “Fable” mantle clock, which was inspired by “the beautifully crafted antiquities, curiosities and oddities from days gone by [that] have survived the passage of time.” The sculptural timepiece takes the form of a traditional domed birdcage, which houses a tree that rotates on a central axis; a functional swing dangles from one branch, further illustrating the motion. The hour and minute are displayed on the outer circumference of the base, facing outward (hence, mantle clock), perpendicular to the motion of the scene.

If its alabaster hue indicates its manufacturing process—hint: Shapeways handles the fabrication—the level of detail and myriad points of articulation are, as to saying goes, just the tip of the iceberg in terms of practical applications of SLS.

Fable was designed in the UK, crafted by sculpting and forming using CAD modelling programs and cutting edge Haptic Technology which allow forms to be created in a similar way to a traditional artisan sculpting clay by hand. The 3D data has then been translated into reality, 3D printed in the Netherlands through a process known as Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) this is an additive manufacturing process which builds parts layer by layer using a laser to heat and fuse nylon powder.

The demo video looks uncannily like stop-motion animation…

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Le réalisateur Ridley Scott a dévoilé récemment une nouvelle bande-annonce de son film Prometheus. Le réalisateur du 1er film de la série Alien revient avec un trailer splendide, mettant en scène Michael Fassbender et Charlize Theron. Prévu pour juin prochain.

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Usually when a wicked design concept slams into production realities, the concept can lose a lot of swagger. But not much has been lost with Vadim Kibardin’s White & White clock, a fully produceable version of Kibardin’s Black & White clock concept that we fell in love with back in ’09.

Whereas the Black & White clock was meant to consist of individual digits and automatically toggle between black or white coloring depending on ambient illumination, the White & White simplifies the concept for the sake of manufacturability. All of the digits are part of a single unit, and as the new title suggests, it switches between two shades of white rather than the trickier proposition of the original concept.

The White & White is scheduled to begin shipping this May.

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