Young London-based designer Kacper Hamilton has created a set of seven wine glasses inspired by the seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath (above), envy and pride.
Above and below: greed
The seven wine glasses are presented in a specially designed mahogany case (see bottom of story).
“Each glass encapsulates a sin, which is revealed through the ritual of drinking,” explains Hamilton. “The 7 Deadly Glasses are about celebrating passion and encouraging the user to be sinful in a theatrical fashion. The display case is a sarcophagus for the wine glasses, made using mahogany wood, brass fittings and a velvet fabric lining.”
The glasses will be exhibited at the Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design Degree Show from June 12th-June 19th at Southampton Row, London. Above: lust
The set is a limited edition, available to order. Above and below: gluttony.
Below: envy
Below: sloth
Below: wrath
Below: pride
Below: the mohogany presentation case
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Posted by Rose Etherington
June 5th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
eccentric
June 5th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
very clever .
June 5th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
This guy tries to hard…
Boring. No sense.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
He just wants to suck our blood !
June 5th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
The one called “Lust” should be called “Hamster”.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
In London the Gothic era is back! Patch the past with irony and artist touch and you reach the top…. top of what?!
June 5th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
these are so useless…im sorry but the design is really poor and awkward.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I just want wrath and pride, sloth just reminds of a beer bong, a very expensive beer bong.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
When I first read the title ’seven sins’ in my rss reader, I thoght: what a rubbish idea, but when I saw the pictures, I had to change my mind: these object are perfect. (I’m not native english so I don’t know the perfect word, but it’s gorgeous) It’s something very new from a dull material and subject as the glass…
June 5th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
clever and never dull for a dinner of 7 –hope it’s crystal
June 5th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Love ‘em!
June 5th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
If that is a set of glasses then I can see no connection between each other. They all seem so different. The only thing that connects them together is the concept but that doesnt work perfectly. Is it a piece of design or a piece of art? I can see no function. Sorry mate.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Gimmick
June 5th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
What the hell is that. Pointlessss. Interesting concept but crap translation into a design piece.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Kacper
These glasses are truly remarkable, the use of borosilicate rocks.
Legendary Glasses.
You must be proud dear squire.
with regards
Huffy
June 5th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I like the idea
Like some of the others i think he is trying a but too hard with the presentation. But as a purely conceptual piece I can go with it.
The Wrath glass as an object is very beautiful.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
i’ll take 7 of those wrath glasses (:
June 5th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
what a nonsense!
June 5th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
see the hand drawing….
http://www.kacperhamilton.com/Kacper_Hamilton/Deadly_Glasses.html
June 5th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
They are basically useless, but I think they’re really clever and funny.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
it’s not design, it’s just bad art.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Great work Kacper. Congratulations!!!
June 5th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
shitty stuff!!!
June 5th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
K!
it’s magnificent!
what is this whole bloody argument about it being useless? do you mean functional? then i suppose art, music, poetry and all the things that make the world a more complex and beautiful place are pretty useless…
but it’s not.
if it inspires i believe in it..
x
June 5th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Love the photos! Brings the glasses to life.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
really interesting, functionality is not what they are all about, and the strangeness of the interaction invites the sin to take place. imagine the strange injuries you could give yourself from using these. how suitably macabre
June 5th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
sick
June 5th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
I like gluttony….it´s really good….that´s the only one with design!!!!, the rest it´s just weird..great excercise tought
June 5th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Good on you for trying something different, 7 crazy design languages, gluttony is the nicest. Sure the guys in Murano can sort you out a good deal.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
what a crock of s__t!
the 7 deadly sins thing is soooooo trite.
the only relatively decent one is the wrath glass but it really should drop the name and become a glass collection in itself (that means a full set of the same glass!)
June 5th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Yes, I can see how that might be useful for a bit of sport. Invite 7 acquaintances for a dinner party, each chosen for their particular weakness of the flesh, each provided with the appropriate vessel, without their knowledge of course. Would they “get it”?
June 6th, 2008 at 6:16 am
I for one think that they’d make a great addition to anyone’s bar.
If you enjoy drinking you’re likely to enjoy these.
They’d also make for wonderful conversation pieces, and are ideal ‘toys’ for our role playing and masquerade parties.
There’s nothing hackneyed about them.
Much more original than most of the Baccarat glassware I’ve bought, including my Starck black crystal glasses and my Krafft porcelain guns.
They’d be great fun, such is SIN.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:10 am
ek. bad form, bad execution, photography and bad understanding of material and attention to detail. that glass rim is terrible.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Envy and Lust are very clever.
Wrath is the best. Simple. Straight.
The others make sense through the entire set.
Looks like some strange doctors instruments.
Bravo!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I agree with most of you. Very poor. The photos are also quite bad. Maybe with amazing photos the project could have been perceived better.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Sin with Style! Just how it should be done!
p.s. commentators, be careful not to lose your content through the pores of your vessel…
June 6th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Kacper,
Think it all looks fantastic, what a journey from conception to completion and now it’s nearly over! I can honestly say, to all the doubters on here that they look even better in real life than they do in these photos and clearly a number of people here don’t understand conceptual design. Anyway, keep up the good work and very much looking forward to the show!
X
June 6th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
gluttony and wrath are the best!
instead; i couldnt understand envy; why do ı want to buy some kind of set even i can’t drink with envy becuz of the holes…
this design contains only ‘bad-art’
June 6th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
conversation starter is the method of STARck… some blogs are looking for a lot of comments, so may be he will become soon a virtual star
June 6th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
i really like the idea and some of the pieces are fun but it feels like it could have been better executed on the whole. presentation tries too hard to compensate with some theatricality, and some of the glasses wouldn’t look out of place in the disney store - more yuppie kitch than horrific decadence, but i just wanted to run with the idea….
June 6th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
This is by far the most innovative glasses I have ever seen. AMAZING I am loving them soo much.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
LAME!
June 6th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Are they available for sale? How many boxes in the edition? Please send purchasing source or information. Thanks! They are beautiful and clever. A great collectors item.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
ridiculous !!!! and clothes like a second class comedy ?
June 7th, 2008 at 1:08 am
i love zuy
June 7th, 2008 at 1:25 am
What are you folks griping about? I don’t think these are intended to be a serious glassware collection, it’s supposed to be fun, humorous, lighthearted. Just look at the outfits they’re wearing! There is definitely a strong market for this sort of thing in the US, it’s somethign you’d use once for an intentionally over the top gothic theme party, people still have nostalgia, even if mixed with a bit of irony. Not everyone is an uptight urban minimalist.
I love them personally, I think it’s even an interesting design exercise, manifesting an idealized human fault in the form of a wineglass.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Absolutely cool! How can I purchase them? How much do they cost? I am a wine enthusiast (heavy drinker) And I would love to have them in my eclectic collection of glassware.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
i do agree with you Olivia, very much!!!!
being a CSM student, i believe the design is been very much appreciated. very csm style.
i love the wrath.
all designs expresses well the sins. glutonny is very well achieved.
i’ll pop in to look at your work. i’m displaying my work as well this year
good luck
kisskiss
June 8th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Where can I get mine???
June 8th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Pretentious
June 9th, 2008 at 6:56 am
will,
I think your comment is ten times as insulting as my earlier one is. These people thrive on dressing like that and doing this type of work (party gags) thinking its the real deal, not like you said, for a theme party.
that being said, I completely agree with you, haha. (just not with the way you see it)
June 9th, 2008 at 11:09 am
I agree with most here, nice concept but the design really needs some work, the project feels as if you got mid way through the design process and then built them. Good start though, next time try making each piece stand out and speak for itself rather than quickly attempting to simulate a word.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
i’m sure the concept looked good on paper, but most of the designs need work. wrath is the only one that would really be worth having mutiples of as the design is a very good twist on a typical wine glass. The rest are just too far-fetched and stray too far from just a contemporary twist on a normal wine glass seeing as how that concept is the best looking (i.e. wrath)
June 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
i think it is creative and clever.
anyone who dissed this concept is just jealous and should not be so narrow minded.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
love them, and tryed to order !
June 12th, 2008 at 1:16 am
most of these comments are blatently from class mates, but i agree with them, what pretentious accompanying photographs!
June 12th, 2008 at 1:21 am
i think RAZOR and casper are related, or dating.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:50 am
- it’s “wrath” on the front page attracts me, cos it gives me a metamorphic sense.
Wrath & others are all not pleasing items of cos! cos they illustrates SINS! OMG!
although i agree with many of the above comments… “sick… shXX…XYZ…” to the end the objects are expressing well aesthetically!
Sins offend!!! See we mostly have a heart for holy & pureness.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
He is a virtual star now !!! so design 8 mirrors “celebrating passion and encouraging the user to be sinful in a theatrical fashion.” !!!
June 13th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
As soon as I saw envy and realized one _could not_ reasonably drink from it, I knew these classes were intended as artwork. Personally, I think they’re spectacular. I would love to own a set, though I would have to think hard about how to properly display them in my home. They look lovely in the case, but something of their true striking beauty is lost. I’d have to dedicate an entire curio cabinet to them! ;D
June 13th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Cool, high art meets design!
June 15th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Rory, Kacper and I are neither related nor dating (we are both straight) however, we are class mates and I have watched this idea grow and grow and as a result it is fantastic to see a friend get such good recognition. It’s interesting to see you didn’t comment on the pieces themselves, but were purely concerned about whether or not a relationship of some sort existed. It shows a true narrow mindedness towards the way the blog works as a whole and quite possible towards you as an individual… Anyway, we shall not dwell and we welcome more constructive criticism in the future from yourself and others. My site is nearly up and running and would welcome comments at: http://www.jamesmgdesign.com
The degree show at St Martins is in full swing and we’ve collectively been receiving good feedback so far so for all you doubters please chick it out, it runs until Thursday at Southampton Row, Holborn, London between 12 and 8.pm. Both Kacper and I welcome you all down (as well as some 80 others) and look forward to seeing you there! X
June 15th, 2008 at 10:49 am
crazy and fabolous idea! love it! simply amazing..touching lives..connecting people…
June 19th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Oh my, I love it <3
Very Clever <3<3
June 21st, 2008 at 10:31 am
Good one
Thanks for sharing.
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm
gluttony, envy, and wrath are great the rest are not… i can probably find those at a hot topic or some goth store.
June 28th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
envy lust and pride by far the best. the rest are really good because they really represent their sins very well but are just not my thing. and greed is just way to off the wall for me, kinda looks like there are a bunch of leaches hanging off of it. one more thing. how much and where can i get a set?
June 29th, 2008 at 1:12 am
these people saying that they are useless, and commenting on the photography need to get a life, these are by far the coolest things ive ever seen and you need to grow up and stop being little jealous babies.
Great work, love ‘em
June 30th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
A guy I know did this exact same thing for a photography project at uni. I am not exaggerating when I say this is almost exactly the same. It was on show in Leeds middle of last year.
I don’t know if Hamilton saw them or not, but the similarities are pretty big to be coincidental if you ask me.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Kitsch.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Derek Leale, right on brother. A lot of snarky comments about this guy’s design work, so he must be doing something right.
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:13 am
They certainly fascinated me enough to scroll through the entire collection. I was warmed by each interpretation, these character flaw seem more humorous when represented in glass compared to self witness. I enjoyed the stimulated experience of perhaps laughing at myself as much I enjoyed your handling of the design and presentation. Congratulation on your work
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August 25th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
hard work for the making i can tell but doesn’t do anything. photos are painful to watch as you can tell loads of work was put into the making of the project, but the photos just don’t do it any favors. The presentation box either, just makes it look even tackier.
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