Boxed wines have come a long way. While the improvements in taste and quality have been monumental, boxed wines still come in unattractive cardboard packaging. The eco-friendly cardboard box only serves two basic functions: storage and distribution. This issue presented a prime opportunity for two artists to come together to create a beautiful and highly functional solution: The Wine Nook®. Cindy Saadeh is a professional artist with a background in oil painting, which she learned while living in France. At her art gallery, she was serving boxed wine for the guests at her monthly artist receptions. Wanting to present the wine in a way that matched the beauty of the space, she had the idea to put it in something more appealing than the typical cardboard box. But there wasn’t a good solution available at the time. Cindy says, "I thought, if I'm having this problem, many others must be as well. Time to create a solution." She took the idea to her gallery manager Michael Ripper, a woodworker, to design something. After several prototypes, together they settled on what now is the Wine Nook®. They got the Nook patented and now everyone has a solution to serve their box wine and cocktails in a more beautiful way!