Vino Grace - Kintsugi Wineholder

Vino Grace Kintsugi - Suspended Wine Holder

Inspired by the Japanese art of kintsugi, this reimagined Vino Grace turns the original wine holder into a study in golden repair. The sculpture keeps the gravity-defying silhouette that made the first version a Collecticraft staple, a sculpted hand that cantilevers over the table edge and suspends a full bottle in horizontal balance. Across its surface, a network of fractured veins flows from the wrist to the fingertips, traced in gold the way a kintsugi master mends a broken bowl.

Design & Concept

I designed this piece two years after the original Vino Grace, and the gap is the point. The first version was a clean, unbroken white hand. Two years of iteration left their mark, failed prints, scrapped sketches, late nights at the desk. With Kintsugi, I stopped hiding those cracks and made them the finish. Every vein is sculpted directly into the model, then printed in gold thanks to the dual extruder of the Bambu Lab H2D, so body and gold are laid down in a single uninterrupted print. No painting, no inlay, no post processing. Two heads, one go.

Key Features:

• Kintsugi Finish: A sculpted network of veins flows across the hand, printed in gold to celebrate repair rather than hide it.
• Dual-Material Print: Designed around the Bambu Lab X2D's two-head workflow. Body and gold accents print together in a single seamless pass.
• Gravity-Defying Pose: The hand cantilevers off its base and suspends a full bottle horizontally, as if it were floating over the table edge.
• Functional Sculpture: A working wine holder when there is a bottle on it, a conversation piece the rest of the time.
• Two Color Variants: Ships ready for a matte black body or a clean white body, both threaded with the same gold veins.
• Symbolic Resonance: A piece about iteration, patience, and turning years of cracks into something worth keeping in the open.

Printing Recommendations:

• Body Material: Matte PLA in black or white for the cleanest contrast against the gold veins, following the two finishes shown in the photos.
• Vein Material: Gold PLA, ideally a silk or metallic gold to catch the light along the sculpted cracks.
• Printer: Bambu Lab X2D recommended to print both colors in one uninterrupted run. Any dual-extruder system, or an AMS with frequent filament swaps, can reach the same result with a longer print time.

Commercial License

The downloaded files are for personal use only. If you are interested in selling physical prints of this design, please visit www.collecticraft.co to find details about my commercial license and subscription plans.

Download Vino Grace Kintsugi today and let it hold what you have been waiting to celebrate. I'd love to see your color combinations.