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Ten years ago, Bombay Sapphire Distillery and Heatherwick Studio partnered to transform an old water-powered paper mill in the heart of Hampshire into a distillery at Laverstoke Mill. The project involved the meticulous restoration of over forty derelict buildings, along with the addition of two cascading glasshouses - heated by the warm air generated during the distillation process - to display the botanicals used in crafting Bombay Sapphire gin. The River Test was also widened threefold, revitalising the area’s natural habitat and biodiversity. Since opening, the distillery has welcomed 600,000 visitors, becoming a cornerstone of the gin brand’s heritage and the studio’s design legacy. To celebrate this 10-year milestone, Bombay Sapphire and Heatherwick have reunited to create a limited collection of bespoke bottles and pleated glassware inspired by the Mill. Each piece is individually hand-blown and crafted by skilled artisans in the UK. Thomas Heatherwick, founder of Heatherwick studio, says: “Our team are always fascinated by craftsmanship, and the human response you have when you can feel that something has been made with love, care, and attention to detail. Glass blowing at its best has that unreal quality. That’s what I hope we manage with this latest collaboration.” Find out more in this short film, and via the link below: https://lnkd.in/e56y_kRF

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We have a long history with Bombay Sapphire. We recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of our Bombay Sapphire distillery that we built. I say built, but actually it was a reuse, adapting an existing collection of buildings and it had accumulated over 2 centuries, a whole hodgepodge of buildings. We looked at how we could turn it into a botanical distillery and let nature be the heart of it. We built these two glass houses that could take the waste heat from that production that normally gets thrown away and use that heat to grow tropical and Mediterranean plants, the same plant species that are in the gin itself and the heart of it was. Opening up the nature and allowing industry to not be in nature killer, but be a nature facilitator. In our studio, there is enormous diversity, diversity of scale, diversity of types of materials and ideas and forms because we're trying to think for each place what's the right thing and trying to invent it. Hunt down the answer, find that. And that ranges from the products that we use all the way to the fabric of the cities that wrap around us and surround us and create the backdrop. Atmosphere of our lives. So this project came about because this is actually the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Livestock Mill Distillery, where all of Bombay Sapphire gin is made. In a way, we went back to thinking about how we came up with the idea for the glass houses. And So what makes Bombay Sapphire truly special as a brand and as a gin is the botanicals. And so we wanted to take that same idea and see if is there a way of truly bringing the botanicals together with the glassware and take some cues from the way we experimented with the glass. Forms of the glass houses, could that start to inform the bottles themselves too? And so we were interested in is there a way of bringing that down to the scale of a bottle, but leveraging some of those same ideas? And so those two things came together to create this amazing kind of pleated glass silhouette. Our team are always fascinated by craftsmanship and that human response you have when you can feel that something has been made with care, that extra attention to detail and I think everyone can feel it has been really wanted this to be an object that could be cherished and kept. It's very particular to Bombay Sapphire brand. They have this sort of cut glass quality to their existing bottles and so we wanted to keep that and then offset that against the sort of really clear pleated form and the original geometry of the shoulder of the bottle. We feel just works really well and gives it a more timeless quality. It quite naturally evolved into a discussion about could we have some complimentary glassware that worked with that specific decanter. We've also designed a table sized version of the bottle and series of three different glasses of different shapes for different types of gin based cocktails that follow that same aesthetic language. The fact that it is handmade, it's not absolutely perfect, actually gives it more of a sense of character and fascination and is it's just a more engaging object. It's amazing to have the opportunity, 10 years after an original design, to be able to look at that again and reimagine that into something totally new and different and something that hopefully people will cherish and be able to have in their own homes.

Muntaha Hamed .

Muntaha Hamed .

Inspiring Global Change Through Design | Passionate about Sustainable Building Practices | Leading Teams to Create Impactful Architecture

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I've lived through the true power of passion in our work, and it's inspiring to hear Thomas Heatherwick describe the beauty that craftsmanship and attention to detail can create.... As an architecture student, I see that same passion driving us to pursue excellence in design. It's amazing how this dedication transcends fields, uniting us all through a shared commitment to creating with love and care....

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You can really see the language of the original plant house in the bottle design. Amazing object and beautifully celebrated in the film 👏

Jonathan Gregory

Jonathan Gregory

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And not forgetting East Beach Café at Littlehampton

Managing Director at Grafica

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Beautiful

Stanley Wiselin

Stanley Wiselin

Associate Director at RSP Design Consultant's INDIA Pvt Ltd

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You guys just plain and simply ROCK!!!

Alex Brownless FRSA

Alex Brownless FRSA

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Genius

Dnyaneshwar Gaddamwar

Dnyaneshwar Gaddamwar

Principal Architect @ ARCHRON | Architecture, Research

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Inspiring

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