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A beautiful handmade champagne holder, designed and made especially for iconic luxury shop, Fortnum & Mason in celebration of the Jubilee.

Over the years, the studio has exhibited pieces with QEST many times at events including Collect, the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design, and Fortnum & Mason’s exhibition series, ‘The Art of the Exceptional, a Jubilee Celebration of Makers’.

For the Jubilee exhibition Otis created a carrying case to transport Fortnum’s famous house champagne bottles. Made from traditionally tanned oak bark bridle leather, the case is saddle and bar stitched, cinched with a belt and solid brass hardware, opening up to reveal a pair of bottles.

To go with the case Otis worked with acclaimed basketmaker and willowcrafter Eddie Glew of Blithfield Willowcraft to create a special wicker hamper with hand stitched and laced leather handles and straps.

The studio has a close relationship with the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST). This trust aims to support Britain’s cultural heritage and sustain vital skills in traditional and contemporary crafts, through the training and education of talented and aspiring craftspeople via traditional college courses, vocational training, apprenticeships and one-to-one training with a master craftsperson.