Hasta La Ideas

Last week, we saw some kick-ass wooden bars, and today we’ve got some wooden bar accessories. UK-based designer Alex Jess (who operates under his Chill Tree Designs brand) is currently making the blog rounds for his Fidget chair, but we’d like to give some love to some of his booze-related B-sides.

If Hobbits drank cocktails, they’d use Jess’ tabletop cocktail mixing station.

The Pippy English Oak object has cutouts for a bartender’s shaker, jiggers and tumbler, a leather-lined pull-out drawer for the strainer, mixing spoon and fruit-cutting knife, and a little worksurface on which to concoct a blend so potent those Hobbits won’t know what hit ’em.

Dovetail keys lock the back to the cutting surface, dowels hold the legs in place, and the drawer slides on dovetail runners.

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