Product news: a ball of cork provides the stopper for this glass container by Czech designer Martin Jakobsen.
The Luno container has a shape similar to the small playing pieces in the board game Ludo, Martin Jakobsen told Dezeen.
Natural materials like glass, wood and marble appear throughout Jakobsen's work. "In this case, cork was definitely what I needed. It is a sufficiently soft material and very good combination together with glass," he said.
The Luno container is now available from Czech design portal Maxi Design.
Jakobsen founded his own studio in 2010 and began designing products for Danish design brand Mojoo in 2011.
We've previously featured a set of coloured glass jars with cork lids as well as some more unusual uses of cork, including a torch with a cork body and a cork light fitting that let users pin on their own paper shades.
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Photographs are by Eliska Kyselkova.
Cool! Look: http://tomaskral.ch/en/clown-nose
Not convinced. What if I close it too hard and the cork goes inside?
It’s quite risky. Especially if you are a brute. Can’t you see it will never pass the entry of the jar?
Mauro
Sorry, I think this has already been done!
http://www.muuto.com/collection/Corky_glass_caraf…
^ I don’t see a ball.
Imagine what the designer of the four-legged chair thought when he saw another four-legged chair come along! It’s a never-ending creative evolution of objects my friend, not plagiarism.
Revolutionary!
Sagaform anyone?
I can’t understand nothing! How can I buy it? Where I can set the language of website?
Labrador owners should probably refrain from buying ;)
There are many good things published in Dezee but few are so perfect as these. Contemplate the beauty of its simplicity, the beauty of its functionality, the beauty of the cork ball gently put on top of the jar. I may not say only these but also the beauty of its originality! Congratulations Martin.
Really? Where is functionality here? I bet that flipping the jar releases the ball, so the lid is useless in that sense. It looks pretty, I give you that, but functional it’s most definitely not.
Why would you flip the jar? That's useless.
Mauro
A lid is supposed to hold onto the container with just enough strength to prevent its content from being spilled. You know, basic design assumptions.
Okay it’s pretty, but it’s just a jar with a ball as a lid.
If I may, as far as originality goes, a simple Google Images search for carafes should speak for itself.
So when I remove the stopper and put it down, it rolls away?! Useless.
Yeah! It’s self powered, especially if you are not intelligent enough to level your furniture when you place it. Ridiculous comment.
Mauro
Not a matter of intelligence. Leave a window open and the draft will make such a light ball roll away; walk fast by it, drop a newspaper next to it, to oppose this fact is simply bad faith. Adding a small flat surface to it would just enhance the design by taking the real life parameters of usability into account. This is not a sculpture.
Already been done better: http://www.muuto.com/collection/Corky_glass_caraf…
Agreed.
I’ve sealed and re-corked bottles before, I do it because I want to keep whatever is inside from spoiling or spilling.
How does a ball “gently resting” on the lip of a carafe even keep the air from drying my gummy-bears, or for that matter, waterlogging my cereal ? How would you manufacture spherical (and corresponding) stoppers without incurring massive costs and astronomical defect percentages?
I’d rather find something else to impress my guests.