For Austrian winemaker Leo Hillinger’s 2009 vintage red wine, Icon Hill, renowned architect Zaha Hadid came up with a limited edition bottle that aimed to reflect the drink’s “bold and distinctive” character.
Hadid gave the wine bottle an elongated look with curves, and a concave indentation on its curve surface with a small indentation at the bottom of the bottle—this allows sediment to gather and encourages proper handling and pouring of the wine bottle.
“The elongated volume of the bottle has been derived from the profile of liquid droplets,” Hadid told Dezeen. “A continuous spatial curve was then projected onto the bottle’s surface, defining areas for the concave indentation and suggesting the waves created when droplets break a liquid’s surface.”
Only 999 bottles of this design were manufactured.
[via Dezeen]