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#AVIARY PORTHOLE PLUS#
There are also five $5,000 packages (three left as of this writing) for which you get two signed Portholes plus a day spent with Grant Achatz and new Aviary chief Charles Joly. the standard black, I guess?) for $250, or get multiple (black) Portholes for larger pledges.

If you've got the money, you can get one of 250 white Porthole (analogous to the white iPhone vs. That level - and the $85 level- sold out right almost immediately, but it's still possible to back the project at the $95 level and receive a Porthole and a seasonal cocktail recipe to fill it with. Early backers were able to preorder the vessel for $75. If that was you, you now have the opportunity to take the Porthole home without risking a visit from the police. This inspired the creation of a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to increase production capabilities. According to Crucial Detail's founder, Martin Kastner, "On many occasions when The Aviary's guests were told that the Porthole was not available for purchase, they tried to 'liberate' it on their own." As the guests at The Aviary experienced the Porthole firsthand, their interest in having them for their own homes arose. Back in 2012 they launched a Kickstarter campaign, which raised over 700,000 in just 28 days, and then began offering The Porthole to the public. The cocktail chefs at The Aviary unscrew the side of the shallow, circular teapot-like flask to compose beautiful arrays of fruit, fresh herbs and other botanicals that flavor both hot and cold drinks. T he Porthole, designed by Martin Kastner of Crucial Detail design studio, is an infusion vessel, originally designed for the chefs at The Aviary. If you've ever been to The Aviary, you know what a showstopper this cocktail service piece is.

That time has finally come: today the company launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the initial production of the piece. News Wed The Aviary's Porthole Launches via KickstarterĬrucial Detail, the design studio behind many of the beautiful service pieces at Alinea, Next and The Aviary, has been hinting that they'd be making a consumer version of the Porthole, one of the vessels they created for The Aviary, for quite some time.
