January 3rd, 2013

News January 3, 2013

Wining & Dining – The Sediment Guide to Wine and the Dinner-Party.

I always like to hear about the “side projects” of other wine bloggers…but I also read into these ventures a little more than I probably should. Blogging needs to start from a passion for a given subject. If the passion isn’t there, the blog will surely die. Blogging is also an evolution, one which opens-up said blogger to numerous other opportunities. Opportunities which, I promise you, no-one understand that more than my good self! The…

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News January 3, 2013

Amazing Champagne Cork Chairs.

The story goes that Rob Forbes (founder of Design Within Reach, a furniture company which aims to bring high design to the general public) was given an intricate miniature chair made out of a champagne cork, complete with the wire cage and metal medallion. The chair sat on his desk for long enough that it attracted a large amount of compliments…enough to make a light bulb illuminate inside Forbes’ head! From there, the DWR Champagne…

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