Cabernet Couch: Wine Jug Couch by Carlo Rossi

Photo: Carlo Rossi's JugSimple

That's the Cabernet Couch, made from 33 empty Cabernet jugs and vintage corduroy futon mattress for the winemaker Carlo Rossi.

In what can only be called a strange yet utterly fascinating effort to turn the image of wine jugs from being associated with drunk winos into haute couture, Carlo Rossi also has the Chardonnay Chandelier ("jug count: 33"), Burgundy Bookshelf (jug count: 28), Paisano Plasma TV Stand, and more.

Link: Cabernet Couch - via Chair Blog (which btw, is ALL about chairs!)

42 years ago, Bob Dylan wrote one of his funniest odd songs, "Leopard-skin Pill-Box Hat." He claims that a hat matching that description "balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine."

Bob was always a prophet at all times...

Click my name to read the lyrics.

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Hey now, that's CLASSY.

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I am amused and now I'm picturing this couch in the apartment of "The Ladies Man."

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my neighbors in college used to do the carlo rossi challenge as a fund raiser. some sort of drinking contest, most of what I remember was them puking from tha balconies. ewwwy