The "STEAMPUNK CORKSCREW"
Founder of conceptual design firm, Oneofone commissioned a brilliant new invention, and by brilliant I mean completely useless, but mind-boggling nonetheless.
Marcus Wilkinson wanted a specially made centrepiece that may be impractical but that could be marketed to hotels and funky restaurants. DRUM ROLLLLLL - and here it is - a R900,000 corkscrew.
The inventor, Mr. Rob Higgs made the original contraption and is now building replicas. Mr. Higgs says, “Because it is made from recycled material, there is a complex message behind the invention about how wasteful we are in society.”
Mr Higgs, who lives in Cornwall, England, was inspired as a child by items in his grandfather’s workshop. He has spent much of his life creating engineering art in the form of eccentric and often useless devices such as this.
The "steampunk corkscrew", as he calls it, took him four years to build from recycled bits and pieces, custom-made cast iron and he explains: “The majority of the corkscrew machine is stuff that I found in places like scrap yards, car boot sales and antique fairs. I also have a workshop which has tons of hoarded rubbish and piles of junk.”
When asked why he built it he said “It’s a useful brain exercise because it gives you ideas. It’s like going to a library. There is a real occasion to opening a bottle of wine with a corkscrew.”
Hope that the people buying this will have enough space in their BAR to put it!!!!.
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