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# How to Make Art and Drink It
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/how-to-make-art-and-drink-it/
- Published: 2012-02-02T17:45:21.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:46:18.000Z
- Description: LOS ANGELES — Like most gallery goers, I enjoy a good glass of wine with my art. And while wine tasting is an art in itself, I never thought the wine could be transformed into art.
- Author: AX Mina
- Tags: Opinion, Design, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

![The minimal design of Sabine Marcelis's House Wine kit makes it a visual work of art itself. Image via sabinemarcelis.com.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/02/detailsmall.jpg)

The minimal design of Sabine Marcelis's House Wine kit makes it a visual work of art itself. Image via sabinemarcelis.com.

LOS ANGELES — Like most gallery goers, I enjoy a good glass of wine with my art. And while wine tasting is an art in itself, I never thought the wine could be transformed into art.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/02/wine-art-250.jpg "wine-art-250")

So I was delighted to come across Sabine Marcelis’s “[House Wine](http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665309/a-kit-that-turns-homemade-wine-into-beautiful-art?ref=hyperallergic.com),” a living installation meant to be shown prominently in your home **…** all the while concocting your next glass of vino. It greatly simplifies the home wine-making process into elegant tubes and glass vessels that richly display the color of your work in progress.

Like a plant, [House Wine](http://sabinemarcelis.com/work/house-wine/?ref=hyperallergic.com) is meant to receive “nurturing and care” from its owner, providing therapeutic pauses in an otherwise busy day. Marcelis says this about his decision to bring wine-making out into the open:

> “Where the process is often hidden away from view in garages and basements. This is a real shame, as wine is a living, breathing entity which deserves an audience to witness it maturing.”

Now all we need is a tabletop vineyard or maybe [this](http://hyperallergic.com/42468/britta-riley/) will help.

[HOUSE WINE](http://vimeo.com/30336767?ref=hyperallergic.com) from [sabine marcelis](http://vimeo.com/user8862830?ref=hyperallergic.com) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com).