Chef Pierre Negrevergne meets Kossi Aguessy

Image Courtesy of Kossi Aguessy, Pierre Negrevergne

Chef Pierre Negrevergne meets Kossi Aguessy

Design has become an essential part of our everyday aesthetics that we seize the opportunity to view it and to advance it. Such a perk up in design is the "2" Wine collection where French designer Kossi Aguessy gives a new look to Chef Pierre Negreverne’s wine collection.

Chef Negrevergne created a wine collection that does not differ that much from his cuisine; “the wines are simple and go up to the purpose.” The links in his cuisine are based on herbs as agastache, mint, pistachio nut, Basil and vegetables. The Chef clearly knows that the simpler a dish looks, the more complicated its elaboration is. His wine breeding does not differ from the ideal dish; Negrevergne claims “at the origin, for the first collection, I stayed in the sobriety of the starting up for the second vintage I tried to create a wine of pleasure above all! Power the taste of the fruit and a beautiful length in mouth.”

Image Courtesy of Kossi Aguessy, Pierre Negrevergne

Chef Negrevergne commissioned Kossi Aguessy to design a bottle which will envelope this exceptional wine. The bottle designed has simple lines and classic form, while it is elegant and the transparency of the bottle allows for one the five senses to be satisfied before the bottle is uncorked. Furthermore, a case made of Makassar wood, cork and corian symbolizes the innovation and the creativity which Chef Negrevergne used to create his wines. This sophisticated and avant-garde method of Negrevergne breeding the wines travelled Aguessy to a journey between the traditional and the future to only design a product that will stand-out; “a product to be”.

Image Courtesy of Kossi Aguessy, Pierre Negrevergne

Once more Kossi Aguessy impresses us with the materials used to wrap the bottle; these materials create a contrast of the past and the future, the Parisian chic and wild Africa. “The copper engraved anthracite corian dress opens to let see one skin in brown Makassar wood that hides it self a case of cork and the bottle. The “2” Wine collection is surely one of the most exquisite and delicious concepts in every way French wine production created the last years.”

It is exceptional how Aguessy manages to bond traditional materials, such as the African brown Makassar wood with the corian and the modern form for a very traditional product such as wine. But what is most striking of all is that “as a child of Africa” he never forgets his roots and many of his designs have African inspirations, hence taking his designs to a new level.

Image Courtesy of Kossi Aguessy, Pierre Negrevergne