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Like the designer, I’m sure, I’ve broken my share of wine glasses, and I don’t even really like wine! I usually put whiskey and coke in there, then I don’t find the whole glass until spring cleaning. For the wine enthusiast (or drunk) with short shelves or clumsy tendencies, it’s untrained designer Sherwood Forlee to the rescue!
The designer, Sherwood Forlee, puts it like this: “glasses that are separable from their stems for more compact storage, and a metal stem for enhanced strength. A rubber gasket safely and snugly links the glass that fits your drink choice with the stem. Stems are available in a variety of colors and finishes.”
Simple and beautiful. I’d like a set with red/yellow/green color combo stems made of steel. Extra heavy metal would be extra awesome.
Also be sure to check out Forlee’s webpage: he’s a real dude with a barely completed mathematics schooling who “calls himself a designer because it sounds hip and no one likes hanging around a nerd at a party.”
My kind of fellow.
Designer: Sherwood Forlee
13 Comments »
Pedro Villalobos says
Great and useful design. I would love to have some of this at my home…
zippyflounder says
I am kinda dubious about the durablity of these from the threads getting bound up with “goop” to the ability of the glass to take the loads. This is a version of what we have used on boats for years, they are made of lexan not glass.
zippyflounder says
oops my bad, not threads but grommets…ok thats much better.
enoo says
Well, glasses are easy to take in the cupboard because they have a stem, I’m afraid I would make them fall if they don’t.
Other than that, it’s not a bad idea, but it won’t save you lot of space, as the top of the glasses are not stackable.
(hmm, too small ray trace depth in the last image?)
Chris Burns says
Check the last pic again, the top of the glasses are more stackable than they would have been with the stem attached. Also the last pic is weird because I’d think you’d want to put them upside-down.
But then again, it seems like the bottom of the glass is flat because of the hole where the stem-hole goes.
powers says
This is a decent concept, needing further development.
Chris Burns says
do go on
powers says
Well, it’s not my concept to elaborate on, but for an innovative design like this, why not go all out? For starters, why go with traditional wine glass shapes? If one of the major goals of the concept really is stackability, might as well redesign those things to be truly stackable. Which I guess you think they are, but I disagree.
And the title for this article is a huge stretch.
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