{"id":2057,"date":"2008-12-10T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2008-12-10T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T14:00:47","slug":"get-your-drank-on-a-pedestal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2057","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Drank On a Pedestal."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Etienne<\/a><\/p>\n

As a person practicing Seventh-day Adventism, I don’t drink alcohol, never have, and would prefer that no one else did either, even recreationally. So, on MEDIA ASSASSIN, you won’t see me recommending fine wines or drinking paraphernalia. It’s a religious, health, and spiritual thing for me.<\/p>\n

\"Carafe<\/a>That said, I\u2019m kind amazed by these “strange carafes,”<\/a> that French artist Etienne Meneau crafts out of high-grade, shatter-resistant borosilicate glass. The No. 5<\/a>, above and right, which looks like inverted caribou antlers as drawn by a Cubist, stands 25 1\/2 inches high, holds one bottle of wine, and costs $2,800. Meneau’s only made 12\u2014eight signed and four artist proofs.<\/p>\n

\"\u201cLittle<\/a>Or, maybe your style is something a little less outrageous and angular, like, say, Meneau’s Petit Coeur<\/em> (“Little Heart”)<\/a>, right, with its musical four-chambered heart, flipped-over valentine form. Just under 8 inches in height, holding 6.7 oz, it’s $1,900 in the same limited quantities.<\/p>\n

Rich as they are as sculptural art, the question any sensible person will immediately have, particularly about No. 5, is, “How do you wash<\/em> this?” Meneau anticipated the query<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Borosilicat glass is a very strong, chemically and thermically, the glass is thick (0.0788 in.) . You can wash the Decanter with very hot water. Rinse thoroughly, last rinsing with demineralized water…Let drain the decanter 2 or 3 hours upside down on a towel folded, propped up well in a corner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gorgeous, aren’t they? Bump<\/em> special occasions: If I could afford one, I’d drink my cranberry juice from it every morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a person practicing Seventh-day Adventism, I don’t drink alcohol, never have, and would prefer that no one else did either, even recreationally. So, on MEDIA ASSASSIN, you won’t see me recommending fine wines or drinking paraphernalia. It’s a religious, health, and spiritual thing for me. That said, I\u2019m kind amazed by these “strange carafes,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}