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An Automatic Bottle Opener Dreamed Up In The '50s
The body looks like a prop from an old sci-fi film — bakelite knobs and brushed brass together, radiating last century's naive vision of the future.
✍️ Putting brass and bakelite side by side is what actually grounds the phrase 'the past imagining the future' — looking like a space capsule isn't enough on its own, the materials have to speak first.
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An automatic bottle opener designed in a retro-futurist style — its body borrowing the form of a mid-century space capsule, a brushed-brass panel paired with bakelite knobs, radiating that naive last-century vision of 'the future.'






