Architecture and Agave Collide With OAX Original?s Limited Edition Debut
Brooklyn design studio Bardo Industries' trio of mezcal bottles for OAX Original toasts the vernacular architectural history of Mexico.
The complex and smoky agave-based Mexican spirit of mezcal is commonly found bottled in glass, resplendent with design elements referencing the agave derived spirit’s rich traditional past. Which makes OAX Original’s newly released trio of matte ceramic mezcal bottles stand out from the increasingly crowded shelves dedicated to the traditional Mexican spirit ? an intriguing alternative design inspired by the country’s rich architectural history.
Designers Laura Giraudo and Roberto Bernasconi, co-founders of interdisciplinary design studio Bardo Industries, bestow the newly launched, premium small batch mezcales each with a color coded ceramic bottle capped in cork, each intended to communicate the characteristics of the spirits within: the smokiest ? Arroqueño ? bottled in black, the flowery, herbal and lighter Tobalá in white, and the oldest, most complex Tepeztate in pink.
Giraudo and Bernasconi cite Mexico’s vernacular architectural history as inspiration, one spanning from the era of monolithic pre-Hispanic architecture to Euro-American Modernist designs. Bernasconi notes the decision to use ceramic versus glass lends “an unsettling, convulsive and cryptic” element, creating an ?obscur objet du désir?, a “preamble to the drinking experience.”
“We wanted the bottle to...
The complex and smoky agave-based Mexican spirit of mezcal is commonly found bottled in glass, resplendent with design elements referencing the agave derived spirit’s rich traditional past. Which makes OAX Original’s newly released trio of matte ceramic mezcal bottles stand out from the increasingly crowded shelves dedicated to the traditional Mexican spirit ? an intriguing alternative design inspired by the country’s rich architectural history.
Designers Laura Giraudo and Roberto Bernasconi, co-founders of interdisciplinary design studio Bardo Industries, bestow the newly launched, premium small batch mezcales each with a color coded ceramic bottle capped in cork, each intended to communicate the characteristics of the spirits within: the smokiest ? Arroqueño ? bottled in black, the flowery, herbal and lighter Tobalá in white, and the oldest, most complex Tepeztate in pink.
Giraudo and Bernasconi cite Mexico’s vernacular architectural history as inspiration, one spanning from the era of monolithic pre-Hispanic architecture to Euro-American Modernist designs. Bernasconi notes the decision to use ceramic versus glass lends “an unsettling, convulsive and cryptic” element, creating an ?obscur objet du désir?, a “preamble to the drinking experience.”
“We wanted the bottle to...
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