How to celebrate World Cocktail Day this Thursday
This Thursday is World Cocktail Day, and what better way to celebrate than splashing out on some new glass- and silverware with which to shake and sip your mix of sugary booze?
For collectors that means more than a cursory scroll through the Amazon listings: must-have items include Art Deco Parisian ‘Boston’ cocktail shakers and a set of late Victorian Collins glasses.
A cheaper way, however, is to try and get hold of a calabash. The first cocktail shaker, you see, was probably a South American gourd not dissimilar to a calabash. The ancient Egyptians, who always seemed to be on the lash, mixed up spices with fermented grain concoctions in hollowed out fruits, but gourds are easier to come by than pre-dynastic drinking vessels made out of Nile silt clay.
Atlanta Magazine Atlanta design legends Norman Askins and Susan Bozeman bring a bit of.
Atlanta design legends Norman Askins and Susan Bozeman bring a bit of Paris to a historic Buckhead home
The 1930s Mediterranean house in Buckhead caught the eye of a young couple who later updated the interior
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Architect Norman Askins praises the classic Mediterranean style and symmetrical design of this 1930s house with stucco and black trim. A porch on one side is balanced by a porte-cochere on the other end.
Photograph by Rustic White
The homeowners fell in love with arched windows on the front of the house and were charmed when they discovered the motif carried throughout the interior as well.