Sagmeister & Walsh / Seven Deadly Sins / Seven Heavenly Virtues

The Austrian architect/designer Adolf Loos completed a similar set of drinking glasses in 1931. The base of each glass originally featured a geometric pattern. Loos requested that glassware company Lobmeyr in time replaced his pattern with illustrations of the likes of the human form, butterflies and small animals.

Sagmeister & Walsh have expanded Loos's concept to include illustrations of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues by Kate Copeland. The images reveal themselves upon finishing a drink, coming not only as a pleasant surprise to the user but perhaps as a spark for a dinner time discussion about Good and Evil. 

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