The Secret Ingredient That Makes This Ice Bucket a Heavyweight
Nambé Forte ice bucket, $150.
Photographer: Benjamin Bouchet for Bloomberg Businessweek; Prop stylist: Sonia Rentsch
As any frequent hotel guest knows, one of life’s most overlooked luxuries is having ice cubes whenever you wish. Nambé LLC, a Santa Fe, N.M.-based company known for its sophisticated take on Southwestern style, turns that feeling into a hosting opportunity with its Forte ice bucket. The $150 container is mostly made of concrete, which has naturally insulating properties, and rimmed with a proprietary eight-metal silver alloy that also maintains temperature. The alliance of unusual materials brings an easy elegance to cocktail hour.
• Concrete’s cool is catching on: Hart & Hive ($195) makes a hand-poured ice bucket with an industrial look offset by gold resin flecks and leather handles.