Diamond Supply Co.’s Nick Diamond is hosting a party this Thursday in conjunction with Crooks & Castles and several other hot brands. This one WILL be poppin! Models, Bottles, Hip-Hop & Skaters, we couldn’t ask for a more perfect event. Any L.A.-ists can pick up tickets at the Diamond Store on Fairfax.

The team over at NOTCOT had the opportunity to have lunch at Madame Clicquot’s Country House with Andrea Crippa, Director of Marketing & RP International for Veuve Clicquot to give them the first look of a prototype of their latest collaboration with Porsche Design said to launch in 2009. 

Here is your first look at the Veuve Clicquot Ice Cube. “PRESS. CHILL. SHARE.” This is the ice bucket you want the next time you’re stuck in the middle of a desert with good friends and a bottle of champagne… While it looks like a mere ice bucket in the classic Veuve color at first… once you pop the top, you will find two specially designed champagne flutes and two buttons. Now the magic about this design is the technology ~ after 5 years of r&d ~ Veuve Clicquot has developed a system that will instantly cool a bottle of champagne in around 20 minutes, and keep it at the perfect chilled temp for 4 hours… The cooling core can be used twice (or for 8 hours in one go) – and after that you can use the bucket the old fashioned way by filling it with ice! It is currently unclear whether there may be options to buy refill cores to futher use the instant cooling system that draws heat out of the bottles and into a heating stone… perhaps they’ll even get creative and devise some other options to insert into this nice simple ice bucket. See the next page for pics of the prototype and packaging.

Source: NOTCOT

View more of the “Ice Cube” after the jump (more…)