Inspired by Warhol's use of colour and his intent to challenge the world to see art differently (Brillo or Campbell's soup cans anyone?) Dom Perignon teamed up with the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Design Laboratory at Central St Martin's School of Art & Design in London to pay homage to one of the most important and influential artists of the Twentieth Century. (In my humble opinion anyway).
The result: looks amazing, worth it for the art on the box alone and kinda cool because there's a story to go with it, taken from Warhol's diary. (If you haven't read this- DO! I loved reading all of the good, and trivial details of his life)
“Went to the gallery where they were having a little exhibition of the glittery Shoes, and had to do interviews and pics for the German newspaper and then we had to go back to the hotel and be picked up by the “2,000” people - it’s a club of twenty guys who got together and they’re going to buy 2,000 bottles of Dom Pérignon which they will put in a sealed room until the year 2,000 and then open it up and drink it and so the running joke is who will be around and who won’t…”
To read more: http://www.domperignon.com/#/en/stories/
Try: Andy Warhol Diaries, and The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again).
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