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Recently, the stunning, and extraordinarily expensive (just over $15,000) , limited edition bottle designed for Highland Park’s oldest ever island single malt whisky – Highland Park 50 year old, won the award for Best Design at the World Whiskies Award 2012. What's inside the stunning bottle was also named Best Single Malt Scotch 41 Years and Over (Multiple Casks), at the 2012 Whisky Bible Awards.

Bottle front:

Bottle back:


With only 275 bottles produced, this prestigious edition has become an exclusive collectors’ item. Each bottle is unique, encased in an intricate ‘net cage’ of hand-crafted ornate sterling silver created by Scottish jewellery designer Maeve Gillies, who took inspiration from Orkney’s elemental forces. Maeve’s bottle design celebrates Orkney: its seas, island life, wild elements, incredible natural light and the passage of time.

The "50" has black enameling on the sterling silver and is subtly integrated into the silverwork:


Inspired by the wild and rugged natural elements of the Scottish island of Orkney, Maeve aimed to create a bottle that would visually communicate what made Highland Park unique without any words, as well as an object that was precious enough to be worthy of the oldest island single malt in the world.

The details are stamped into the sterling silver at the base on the back of the bottle:


A visitor to the beautiful Orkney islands since a child, Maeve conveyed a natural and nautical theme in her Sterling silver bottle, evoking ropes, twisted seaweed and a metal finish that looked like it could have been a very old and precious object, discovered washed up on the beach.


above: Silversmith and jeweler Maeve Gillies with her award-winning bottle design (photograph by hans offringa)

Set on the front is a disc of genuine Orcadian pink sandstone carved with Highland Park's logo, sourced from the original quarry that built the incredible 12th century St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.


The St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall:


On the backside of the bottle, the medallion is replaced with a translucent glass cabochon:


Behind this, viewable through the glass when the whisky has been finished (although in the composited image below, the bottle is still full), is an ethereal silver replica of the beautiful rose window inside the Cathedral.


The actual Rosette Window in St. Magnus' Cathedral:


The bottle is presented in a hand-carved Scottish oak box, also shaped to feel worn by wild elements, and set with a silver and glass porthole, through which the Highland Park logo on the bottle inside can just be viewed.





The special edition of Highland Park 50 year old was initially launched at Harrods in London as a Limited Edition of 275 bottles for 10,000 GBP per bottle and is now available for purchase for at that same price: $15,811.00 USD or £10,000.00 (Size: 70cl 44.8% ABV) here

With range hoods varying from modern to baroque -fit for any style kitchen, Bastille Metal Works has has revolutionized the art of cooking ventilation.

Art Inspired Range Hoods:


above: Andy Warhol's Soup Can and Knives silkscreens are translated into custom range hoods by Bastille Metal Works

above: A Jasper Johns inspired range hood

above: A vintage Chevy's front end crafted into a functional range hood by Bastille Metal Works.

With a 100% customizable line of slip cast range hoods in an endless combination of patterns, sizes, designs and materials, the artisans at Bastille Metal Works pride themselves on their ability to offer beautiful, hand detailed functional additions to your kitchen that will captivate the eye.




The slip cast zinc range hood (also available in bronze, copper and pewter) is designed specifically for each client. Where another company may hesitate to take on a custom project, Bastille Metal Works accepts such ideas not as a challenge, but as an opportunity to truly shine at their craft as custom metal designers.

Traditional range hoods:









Bastille Metal Works

Canlove is a collective of artists devoted to removing discarded spray paint cans from heavily concentrated graffiti zones and properly recycling them by turning them into various artworks.



Discarded empty spray cans are a natural part of the scene in areas with a lot of graffiti. Some cans lie around for years before being sent to the landfills. And these cans are not necessarily environmentally friendly either. Many times spray cans are not recycled because of their pressurized and toxic nature.



Canlove takes those cans and unlocks their potential as a medium for artwork in themselves. The results are everything from unusual floral-like bouquets which use every part of the can to abstract art made from the residual paint left in the cans.

Flowers
These beauties are pretty self explanatory, and can add a burst of color to anywhere they sit. Metal cut flowers, bouquets or plants made from the discarded cans. And the best part is you don’t need a green thumb to own one forever.

Bouquets:




Custom Bouquets are available in a range of styles and colors, please contact them with any custom requests.

Cut Metal Flowers:




Orchids:




Other Floral Plants:


Many of the above shown arrangements are currently on display at the Chalk Gallery in Venice. To inquire about pricing, contact them at getlove@canlove.org

Bleeds
All of these works were created from the residual paint left over in the spray cans. It is released in different ways to achieve the desired painting technique for the piece. Sometimes hundreds of cans make up one work since there is so little paint in each can.

Splatter and Skelecan:

Intersect:

Pulled Apart:

Galaxies:


See all the Bleeds here

Canscapes
Canscapes are mosaic types of art created from body of the can. The square of metal that it becomes is colored completely on its own, its the paint drying when its exposed to air that makes the composition of the swatch. They collect them and rivet them together into the following compositions.

The Mucho Amor series:

Furious Five:

300 Cans:

200 Cans:


Purchase Canlove artwork here

Get involved and donate your cans, time or money to this wonderful organization.


all artworks ©Canlove