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Grace on May 19, 2022
5 out of 5 starsThis wine stopper is beautiful! I will be leaving it out on display when it is not in use. It is too cool to keep it tucked away.
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Melissa on May 16, 2022
5 out of 5 starsWonderfully crafted bottle stopper as usual. Sending love and support to the owners of this shop and their family from Kharkiv 🇺🇦❤️🇳🇿.
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Caryn on May 14, 2022
5 out of 5 starsFrom wine stoppers to the wooden box packaging, everything is absolutely beautiful. I bought one years ago as a present and was astounded by the quality of the item and decided to have my own collection. As always the seller is very friendly and attending, great communication, highly recommended!!
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Reviewed by Inactive on Apr 27, 2022
5 out of 5 starsThank you for awesome necklace! Hope that peace and safety will come soon 🙏🏻
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Sarah on Mar 10, 2022
5 out of 5 starsWonderful product! We now have two of these stoppers. They are beautiful, classy, and always a topic of conversation. Highly recommend!
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Darcia on Feb 24, 2022
5 out of 5 starsAbsolutely gorgeous brass bottle stoppers. Artist interpretation is exceptional. Excellent communication. Each brass stopper individually packaged in a lovely hand made box. Arrived in a timely manner - all the way from the Ukraine. The world has everyone in the Ukraine in their thoughts and prayers. 🕯🕯♥️🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Audrey on Feb 13, 2022
5 out of 5 starsI love this Bear Wine Stopper. It is beautiful and well made, a little on the expensive side but worth it.
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Audrey on Feb 13, 2022
5 out of 5 starsI love this Deer Wine Stopper, it is beautiful and the quality is good, a little on the expensive side but I think it is worth it.
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Mark on Jan 8, 2022
5 out of 5 starsShe makes wonderful gifts. And she packages everything so nicely they make great gifts. This is my 2nd purchase from her and I expect there'll be another very soon.
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About Masterskaya1717
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Anna & Max
Our Masterskaya1717
There are two of us, Anna and Max. Our family turned into a family of three when the clock was showing 17:17. Doctor said that was an auspicious time. Since then we use these numbers to sign our creative projects.
Our daytime jobs revolve around sculpture, design, illustration and more. Here in our family studio we bring our ideas to life.
Bottles that our friends present for holidays now serve as plinths to showcase our tiny sculptures.
Actually we almost never drink alcohol. But we like to keep a few drinks left from parties and also to have something to treat our guests with. But rather than just closing our bottles, we prefer to turn our bottles into plinths for the little sculptures.
- How do we manufacture our products?
At first we use play dough to create a model (let's take a fox as an example). Then we make a model of rubber and pour in the wax. Then we create a gypsum form, evaporate the wax out and pour in the brass heated up to 970 °C (1778 °F).
After the gypsum form is broken, the fox comes to life. Quite a few processing stages are still on the way, though! We give cork the cone shape and put all the elements together into the bottle stopper! Please watch the video process - https://vimeo.com/162449046
Every product has its unique texture, because each time we make a new mold.
You can be sure that brass animals will live more than one life. They will preserve smell of many beverages and who knows - maybe your great-grandsons will use it to close a bottle of wine opened to celebrate their new dwelling!
Stoppers are little sculptures, they are cool, hard, heavy. As time goes by, the brass naturally gets darker if the stoppers are out of use. But if you occasionally hold the stoppers in your hands or perform some easy manipulations the stoppers will keep their shine and its bright, golden color.
Brass is an alive material that is changing all the time. Humidity, temperature and light can all have an impact on the product's color. In order to keep the stopper shining it is enough to use special liquids for the metal products. Or you can also use sal ammoniac or lemon juice and soft fabric to polish. Take away the cork stopper and separately clean the brass elements of the stopper, then put all the elements back together again. That's it! :)
Shop members
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Anna Demchenko
Владелец, Создатель, Дизайнер
Creator, artist, designer, sculptor http://annademchenko.com
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Max Demchenko
Owner, Curator, Creator
Creator, artist, sculptor http://maxdemchenko.com/
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I gladly accept returns and exchanges
I don't accept cancellations
The following items can't be returned or exchanged
- Custom or personalized orders
- Perishable products (like food or flowers)
- Digital downloads
- Intimate items (for health/hygiene reasons)
I accept returns I do not accept returns
I accept exchanges I do not accept exchanges
I accept cancellations I do not accept cancellations
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for: