Sweet Play is a concept design project by French designer Elsa Lambinet where she adapts modular design principles to allow you to build your perfect bite of chocolate depending on your mood.

Basically, you have three choices to make. First, you decide if you’d like the base to be dark, milk, or white chocolate. Now each chocolate base has a little slot in the side. So step two, you’ll choose what goes into that slot. Choices include a wafer, caramel or nougat, each of which slide neatly into that slot. Lastly, you choose from a variety of nuts, fruits, jams or even liquors, which then go into those holes you see on the top of the chocolate base.

Cuore by Liviana Osti for Paola C. Cuore by Liviana Osti for Paola C.

Cuore glass carafe.

A wine decanter is built together with a water carafe in the shape of a human heart. The designer, Liviana Osti, intended this half-half colored mix of red and white to illustrate that in order to prevent cardiovascular diseases we have to start with the root of the problem, our daily eating & drinking habits.

As an avid red wine drinker, this design to me is not only wonderfully clever but very appropriate. It’s really a very practical reminder to drink as much water as wine to prevent the almost inevitable hangover that comes from drinking too much vino :-)