Marcel Les Objets Mouleversants Bottle Opener

The Marcel Les Objets Mouleversants Bottle Opener is a small object with a large idea behind it. Designed by Wouters & Hendrix for Serax, it is cast in steel in the form of a mussel shell. The shape is a direct homage to the Belgian surrealist Marcel Broodthaers, who famously filled pots and pans with mussels and called it art. The joke is knowing, the craft is serious, and the result is a bottle opener that earns a second look every time it comes out of the drawer. The mussel form fits the hand with a natural ease and works exactly as a bottle opener should, but it does so while carrying the weight of an art historical reference that rewards those who recognize it. On a table, in a kitchen, or presented as a gift, it is the kind of object that starts conversations.