Imagery of breasts and beakers is combined in this fountain, designed by graduates Lolita Gomez and Blanca Algarra Sanchez based on the Korova Milk Bar from A Clockwork Orange and currently on display at Milan design week.
The installation, which forms part of the Alcova exhibition, encompasses a fleshy pink, circular bar that serves guests through udder-like siphons and nippled cups.
The installation is based on the Korova Milk Bar from Clockwork Orange
By suggesting the curves of the female form, the students from Geneva's HEAD design school hope to offer a more abstract reinterpretation of the set from Stanley Kubrick's dystopian film, where men drink drug-laced milk from statues of naked women.
"We decided to do something a little more sensual and organic," Gomez told Dezeen. "So we worked with the idea of a fountain and the visual of feeding. It incorporates the female body but in a subtle way, so it's more about the shape of the breast and the ritual of taking the milk."
Milk is syphoned into spherical beakers
The milk itself is stored in four steel jugs, suspended theatrically in the air above the bar and illuminated by glowing spheres.
From here, it is pumped into spherical beakers and syphoned into hand-turned, ceramic cups, each with a nipple on its underside and illuminated from below by a singular spotlight recessed into the counter.
Ceramic cups shaped like breasts are held aloft by a steel framework
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