Beauty or Beast?

How do you improve on perfection? Simple answer is you don’t but there are many views of beauty and what excellence is and can be. 'Stone Gaze' is the next creation from the team who developed arguably the most detailed spirits bottle in the world 'Fallen Angel'. The simple aim being to improve on perfection and create a sister range that embraced all of the same drives and determination to be different to the main stream formulaic insipid brands created by faceless corporations. To produce liquids and bottles that continue to challenge an industry, our customers, but most of all ourselves.
A journey that speaks as much of what can be done as opposed to what is simple to replicate.


Over the past 5 years we have worked through 4 iterations of the concept through 3 materials and countless processes to finally be able to produce a product we believe bench marks a whole industry with liquids and design. Why follow the crowd when you can stand out from it, never in human culture has it been ever more important to find your own niche on our little blue marble. A small place that anyone can be themselves without fear of repercussions and reprisals.
Different is good, different is special and most of all different is what separates us as individuals and with it us as a brand, liquid and bottle.




Why Medusa?

Medusa is one of the most maligned and miss understood characters from mythology. Rather than a monster who prayed on the helpless mortals she was the victim of her own beauty. According to Hesiod’s Theogony, she was one of three Gorgon sisters Medusa, Stheno and Euryale, Medusa being the only mortal of
the three. Medusa exists in multiple stories in mythological record and portrayed in a multitude of ways in ancient art. Each period in history she is instantly recognisable due to her striking beauty and horror in equal measure. Always being depicted as a striking, aggressive, confrontational female character even in times of repression and servitude. Being one of the most ubiquitous feminine images of the last 2500 years and often portrayed as the evil predator rather than the wronged victim. Legend tells how Medusa was once an immensely beautiful woman, so bewilderingly so that even gods were not immune to her looks.

She was a priestess to one of the Greek goods, Athena. It was in the temple of Athena that she elicited the attention of Poseidon, Athena’s husband. Poseidon was besotted by Medusa and seduced or even raped her. It was these actions in the temple of Athena that resulted in punishing Medusa for the blasphemy and sacrilege. Medusa as we have come to know was born out of injustice, jealousy and circumstance. Events that she had little or no control of herself yet she carried the weight of the curse and wrath of the goddess herself. To always be known as a monster and a predator of men always to be hunted for her dead stone gaze. The look that could freeze even gods to stone. In the later day the most common interpretation of Medusa suggests she is an apotropaic symbol used to protect from and ward off evil. Her gaze capable of thwarting even the most powerful of foes. It's this historic story and the unique characteristics which led us to create our rendition of Medusa.

A strong feminine character to behold with spirited liquids that compliment the mythical legend. 

Gaze upon me if you dare...

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