By Vurdlak on January 18, 2008, with 99 Comments
Here and there, a piece of furniture or something useful takes a shape of optical illusion. We had an interesting idea for a lamp recently, and this time I bring you something completely original. Wine lovers will simply adore this. This bottle holder is made from chain that gives an impression it’s hanging from a flying bottle. Laws of physics are intuitive for us, and we know this can’t be true, but still it makes us think. Where is the solution? Its easy, and I bet all of you instinctively understand this. Still, awesome effect, don’t you think?
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I see,you turn the picture. Good one!
huh? how?
i love how like a thousand people left the yay i got first comment and then the who one who actually got it first did say anything about it…. but anyway amazing picture
I am really tired of people whos standard answer to everything is “Photoshopped?”.
Really. Don’t you get it?
If it was a photoshop picture it wouldnt really be an illusion, would it?
Photoshopped pictures are totally uninterresting on a site like this.
Photoshop makes illustrations and art, not illusions.
With Photoshop, you can do ANYTHING!
Almost never is Photoshop the correct solution to these pictures on this site. There is no point in showing photoshop pictures.
You have to leave your screen sometimes and go out into the real world and discover the phenomenons of physics and optics, which is what this site is about.
So stop nagging about photoshop, please!
you can buy it online. just google “chain wine bottle holder”… it is $27 and available for purchase online.
Pretty cool though.
If this is based on balance, what happens if you only drink half the bottle? But then, who only drinks half a bottle of wine??
http://www.tesora.com.au/Chain_Wine_Bottle_Holder__1001.htm
dunno how much they are though.
* Chain Wine Bottle Holder
Our Chain Wine Bottle Holder uses the principle of balance to create a magical optical illusion. Suitable for most wine bottles, the Chain Wine Bottle Holder is made of a nickel-plated iron chain that is curved upwards to hold the bottle. Pretty cool!*
http://marketplace.hgtv.com/Product.aspx?Lid=3082-710211
27$ = about 18,15 €. Not so much actually. Gotta get one of these xD
This bottle holder is made by Peleg Design.
I see people below asking where they can buy one of these – well, you can buy it at our website, http://www.englandathome.co.uk Hope it is fine for me to say this – if not then apologies for being a spam monster. By the way they are £19.99 Bob
i have seen one in real life and the chain is loose but when the wine is put at the right spot the chains cant go slack but push against eachother holding the wine up. but the bit wrapped around the bottle is solid
i bet the chain wouldnt stand up with out tipping over if there was no bottle for the counter weight. and i wonder if i could use this for my bottle of rum
The chain wine bottle holder let your wine bottles hang down from the ceiling, hence its important to have one if the wine is has that much quality.
that is so awesome it makes me want wine now brb gonna go get wine
Last year one of my friend had given me gift of wine bottle holder, it looks very same as shown in above figure. It looks wonderful and it has save my wine bottle from ceiling more that ten time.
This is by far one of the more stylish wine racks around. It would look fine on the end of a bench or perhaps on a low table in a living room. Very stylish. What’s even better is that these kinds of racks are coming down in price all the time!
I know someone who has one of these, but they make one slight design error in my opinion in that they make the entire chain rigid.
Had the designer left the last three links that hang from the neck loose, it would have been a far more effective illusion.
Hi Emmanuelle and Liam if you are reading this. :)
I think the wine is sitting on a block of ice. The chain is just an added touch. And a good one!!