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Final Pour
Genius in a Bottle
You may have seen glass aggregate and
fi ber-optic lighting in countertops before,
but you’ve never seen them quite like this.
Catering to his client’s passion for fi ne
wine, Scott Cohen, owner of The Green Scene
in Canoga Park, Calif., crafted this striking
outdoor serving counter, which incorporates
more than 200 recycled wine bottles.
Most of the bottles were stacked into the
base of the counter and lit with more than 400
fi ber-optic cables. But the bar surface is what
really makes this project top-shelf. Cast in
place using Styrofoam forms, the countertop
showcases 14 wine and Scotch bottles that
have been melted — Cohen used his 1,500degrees
Fahrenheit kiln — and fl attened for
use as custom tiles. The melted bottles were
wired with an additional 700 fi ber-optic cables
while casting.
The concrete itself was integrally colored
with Davis Color’s Sandstone and hand-seeded
with smaller pieces of recycled glass bottles.
After the concrete had cured for 28 days,
Cohen used granite polishing tools to fi nish
the surface and a double-coat of sealer to
protect the artfully constructed countertop.
Though this piece was Cohen’s fi rst
using fl attened-wine-bottle tiles, it didn’t take
long for the technique to attract attention
— especially since this countertop, along with
many other Green Scene projects, has been
featured on the HGTV network.
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