Veuve Clicquot Icebox, Chemistry Makes It Cold
7 August 2008
Now you no longer need ice or a refrigerator to keep your Champagne cold. Veuve Clicquot has come out the with icebox, a bright yellow box that contains the Champagne, two flutes and a couple of chemicals that react together when you snap the seal, creating a reaction that cools the bottle. The reaction only happens once and the set costs 99 pounds at Selfridges.
Veuve Clicquot has created a lot of unique designs in the past few years, check out the gallery below for a small sample.
Pucci and Veuve Clicquot have partnered up on a bottle of 1996 Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame wrapped up in a two-part ensemble. For carrying, there is a drawstring bag that bears a typically ebullient Pucci print. Inside, the bottle is dressed is a black sleeve with a Pucci swirl that will keep the champers cool for another two hours. The bottle sells for $199.
French designer Andree Putman’s box for the 1998 La Grande Dame is a fitting match, Putman has been referred to as the grand dame of interior design. It is a yellow and black checkerboard box which is lined with mirrors. The box serves as its own ice bucket. The box along with a bottle of the champagne sells for around $500.
Veuve Clcquot Champagne has partnered with a variety of designers for various accompaniments to the popular Champagne.The most lavish has to be the bright pink Clicquot loveseat designed by Karim Rashid. The loveseat consists of two opposite facing chairs joined in the center by a pedestal with an ice bucket in the classic Clicquot yellow creating an intimate place to share your bubbly. The loveseat sells for around $10,000 and can be seen at Conran’s.
Veuve Clicquot is at it again with a new expensive limited edition bottle. To celebrate the 130th anniversary of the company’s non-Vintage Yellow Label Brut Champagne, they are releasing the Yellowboam. The hand-blown Jeroboam (contains four standard bottles worth) with a gold-leaf painted neck instead of the standard gold foil and a yellow label in ostrich, alligator, or stingray. The bottle costs $2,000 and there are 3,600 bottles available. The Champagne was feted at a special party in New York City that featured yellow art installations and a small dance performance.
Veuve Clicquot has a tradition of pairing up with designers for unique editions but their new partnership with Porsche Design Studio has created something truly extraordinary. Vertical Limit is a stainless steel cellar tower of superb design that is over six feet tall, and holds 12 magnums of Clicquot’s vintages in bottle shaped compartments. Vertical Limit’s temperature is set at the perfect temperature for tasting. There are just 15 of these available worldwide and each cellar sells for $70,000.
Karim Rashid must really love sweeping pink lines and feminine appeal — his Veuve Clicquot Loveseat featured the theme and now so does this Veuve Clicquot Globalight limited edition champagne cooler that he designed. Intended to “encapsulate the bottle with warmth” and surround it with light, Rashid drew his inspiration from a random brainstorming scribble and the idea of a purse or handbag. It serves 3 functions by cooling the champagne, lighting the champagne, and serving as a way to carry the champagne. $4000










