Dom Pérignon unveils porcelain armor for Vintage 2008

Like a piece of armor protecting precious goods, French contemporary artist Juliette Clovis dreamt up an ornament made of porcelain scales to enclose’s Vintage 2008 Champagne. Working with clay, her medium of choice, Clovis fashioned hundreds of porcelain scales that she affixed individually to the glass of the brand’s emblematic bottle.

Clovis hand-crafted three types of scales using different sized molds. The artist molded the raw clay in her workshop, and then fired the material at high temperature. The finished scales were enameled or chromed depending on the chosen finish, with up to three passes needed to achieve a harmonious finish on certain colors. The scales neatly overlap to create the effect of an armor, while the smallest scales were designed with a slightly different shape to conform to the bottle’s curves.