Identify this wine rack

February 12, 2009 10:15 AM

Help me identify this wine rack. I purchased these at a flea market about 10 years ago and would like to expand the rack to hold more bottles. The tubular sections are extruded so they come apart and inter-lock. Anyone know who manufactured them so I could know what to search for?
posted by machaus to food & drink (7 comments total)

This modular wine rack it is not, but close. Unfortunately, not as slick as yours.
posted by Henrik at 10:28 AM on February 12

To me it looks as a aluminum-profile, cut in sections.

You might be served by asking a metal-distributor about the specific profiles.
posted by Rabarberofficer at 10:38 AM on February 12

Yeah - if there are no defining maker marks, it might be some one-off. I can't imagine a company would make an interesting product without branding it somewhere.
posted by filthy light thief at 11:03 AM on February 12

It's possible, and maybe even likely, that the aluminum tubing was made for another purpose and got re-purposed into a wine rack. You could try bringing it to some industrial metal supply shops. They might have an idea.
posted by 6550 at 11:39 AM on February 12

Looks a LOT like Patent# 6209735 (except there are fewer extrusions/channels). Also there's this competition design. Who knew there were at least a dozen ways to make modular aluminum wine racks, though? [e.g.]

I feel like the owners of that patent may know who made these. I don't think they were a one-off, but the product may not have been successful. Heck, it may be one of their own mock-ups. I like it better than the patent, though.
posted by dhartung at 3:17 PM on February 12

I could have sworn I saw this in Dwell magazine, but of course I can't find it now. Their website search sucks too. Now this is really gonna bug me.
posted by orme at 5:48 PM on February 12

It's possible, and maybe even likely, that the aluminum tubing was made for another purpose and got re-purposed into a wine rack.

No. This is wrong. My parents had the exact same wine rack back in the 70s. It's still around, somewhere. It's jewel toned and very cool looking.
posted by CunningLinguist at 6:57 PM on February 12