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The Alchemist's Dressing Table
Artist Lauren Davies has assembled a table-top laboratory to produce natural cosmetics. As part of her installation, The Alchemist's Dressing Table, she uses an oil burner to boil water in the still's spun copper base. Steam rises through plants lying on the sieve above, picking up scent particles then condensing on an ice-filled cone overhead. The resulting extract drips back down into the glass below, ready for mixing with the appropriate oils.
These copper-plated components, inspired by prohibition-era stills, form a fully functional distillery. But designer Francesco Morackini has also ensured that each can also be used for purposes that don't need a licence. The manifold becomes a watering can, the receiver a cooking pot and the Bunsen a fondue stove. £tbc
Covered in highly conductive copper wire, this oversized (18cm-diameter) CPU cooler can silently dissipate much of the heat produced by your motherboard. The IcePipe is so called because sealed within it is a liquid moving continuously through the coil using only capillary pressure. Thus, it is more effective than solid heat sinks, yet it remains passive and silent.
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This café table started out as a structural research project to create the world's lightest metal chair. Working with steel coated in copper and hard welded into the complex shapes, Dixon ended up with three light and elegant frame-tables, including this example topped with tinted glass. Its barely-there form offers surprising stability. From £1,000
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