I’ve been saying that I want to set up a home bar for my husband forever. Last month, I updated my post 50 Bar Carts, Serving Carts & Trolleys for inspiration. (Of course, we can’t actually have a cart on wheels in our house or our son would be taking it for a ride all around the condo.)
Unsurprisingly, I haven’t had a chance to move forward on this. (So many gift guides to write, so little time.) But then I got a message from folks at Absolut, offering to send me the new Limited Edition Andy Warhol Absolut Vodka bottle, a lacquer tray, and an Amex gift card so I could style a festive holiday bar. As you can imagine, I told them to send it all right over! Motivation? Done.
The bottle, which is fun, colorful, and sure to be celebrated hostess gift to bring to holiday parties (though I’ll be keeping mine on my newly styled bar tray), is a new creation based on Andy Warhol’s depiction of Absolut’s iconic bottle that he painted back in 1986. This year, Absolut transformed that artwork into a three-dimensional bottle, using the tagline “Make the Holidays Pop” as the inspiration behind the collaborative campaign.
Since I don’t have an unused corner for a full-on bar, a bar tray is the perfect small space home bar solution. While I’m not sure the new tray is styled to perfection yet, I did pull together some must-have bar accoutrements—copper shaker, stainless steel strainer, wine glasses, martini glasses—plus the Absolut Warhol bottle, gin, and Twenty Boat Spiced Rum from Truro Vineyards on the Cape. To prettify, I added a stalk of bamboo, green button mums, mandarin oranges in a Jonathan Adler dish, and a silver dreidel, set beneath my new swimming pool photograph from Gallery. (Scroll down for all the shopping links.)
Create a bar in a cleared out section of a bookshelf, on a lacquered tray atop a console table, a tray table, an armoire, etc. If I did, you can too. Of course, I admit, sipping that Absolut Warhol helped get me in the mood.
Bar tray styled & photographed by StyleCarrot
S T Y L I N G M Y B A R T R A Y
S H O P P I N G
1 Splash by Joy Mckinney Framed Print, $370 at UGallery.
2 Aalto Vase by Iittala, $155 at Horne.
3 Orb Copper Shaker, $24.95 at Crate & Barrel.
4 Twenty Boat Spiced Rum, $44.99 at Truro Vineyards.
5 Absolut Vodka Bottle by Andy Warhol.
6 Preston Martini Glass by Libbey, $18.85/four at Amazon.
7 Oak Mug Coasters by Sagaform, $24.95/six at Burke Decor.
8 Stainless Steel Cocktail Strainer, $9.95 at Sur La Table.
9 High Gloss Swoon Tray, $29.995 at CB2.
10 Copper Plum Tongs by Tom Dixon, $50 at A+R.
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