Hasta La Ideas

Come New Year’s Eve the champagne will start flowing, and Milan-based Marco Dragotta’s designed a better alternative to the silver ice bucket that turns bottles into a sopping mess.

Dragotta’s Galaxy champagne bucket is “designed to glorify the bottles, keeping them in the ideal position to [best display] the labels…”

…but there are also ergonomic/functional improvements over a bucket: The design replaces ice cubes with ice packs, which are inserted inside the ABS housing to keep the bottles cool (and absent melting ice, dry). The entire thing spins on a circular bearing in the base, letting your guests pick their poison.

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