Just in time for the holidays: Black?
Barware designers fade to black for the holiday season with a midnight twist on ice buckets, wineglasses and other party pieces to make this New Year’s toast one cool cocktail.
A super-size martini glass ($32) is detailed with a scene from Rome in silhouette; other glasses feature the skylines of London or New York. Theyre at Zero Minus Plus at Fred Segal in Santa Monica, (310) 395-5718, www.zerominusplus.com. Polished black horn olive picks ($75 for a set of six) are at Table Art in Los Angeles, (323) 653-8278, www.tableartonline.com. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Black is back in tumblers, decanters, ice buckets, wineglasses and other party pieces for New Year’s.
To add a dash of gentlemens club ambience to the bar, start with shot glasses perched on cast-metal trophy-heads ($32 apiece) of a moose, left, and a deer, right, from Zipper in L.A., (323) 951-0620, www.zippergifts.com. The cast-iron crow bottle opener ($12.50) is from OK in L.A., (323) 653-3501, www.okthestore.com. The black tumbler with a hand-layered-crystal tree design by Bodo Sperlein ($145) is from Table Art in L.A., (323) 653-8278, www.tableartonline.com. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
At rear left, the Jazz martini glass with black swirl ($84 for a set of four), Savoy black glass ice bucket with drilled holes for handles ($125) and crystal Madison white wine goblet ($91) are all from Table Art in Los Angeles, (323) 653-8278, www.tableartonline.com. Polka-dot napkins by Marimekko ($9 for 20) and a three-piece snack tray by Design House Stockholm ($52) are from Yolk in Silver Lake, (323) 660-4315, www.yolk-la.com. The cast-iron bottle opener and ice cracker in the shape of a hammer ($20) is from OK in Los Angeles, (323) 653-3501, www.okthestore.com. The windowpane-check black tumbler on its side ($9.50) is from the Craft and Folk Art Museum in L.A., (323) 937-4230, www.cafam.org. The black-etched stainless-steel cocktail shaker by Michael Aram ($70) is available through www.michaelaram.com. At far right, the black beaded coaster ($9) and vertical striped Casino crystal tumbler ($126) are also from Table Art. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
The Re-Cyclos glass bottle ($15) and the Bacchus porcelain bottle stoppers ($95 each), shaped like a unicorn and a ram by designer Bodo Sperlein for Lladro, are at Table Art in Los Angeles. For more drama, decant your Pinot in the black glass Carafe Noire ($95) from Fitzsu in L.A. and Palm Springs, www.fitzsusociety.com. And whether you consider it stylish or silly, there is this: the Philip Stein wine wand, a crystal orb-topped piece that the designer says uses frequency-based technologies to aerate wine in minutes rather than hours. The larger wand ($525, with the carbon case in the background) and the smaller version ($325, on its side) are at Ron Robinson at Fred Segal in Los Angeles, (323) 651-1800, www.ronrobinson.com. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
The old-fashioned etched glass in the foreground is coated in smoky gray. It sells for $22.50 each at Lawson-Fenning in Silver Lake, (323) 660-1500, www.lawsonfenning.com. In the background at left is the Telc medium wine goblet, which has beading detail on the stem ($105); its from Table Art in Los Angeles. The cast-glass Florentine-style Champagne flute ($165 for a set of four) is from the Suzan Fellman Showroom in Los Angeles, (323) 936-7759, www.suzanfellman.com. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)