Jeff Koons Design Two Bottles for Evian’s 200th Anniversary
Evian water, filtered through glacial rocks in the town Évian-les-Bain in the French Alps, was discovered in 1789, and 37 years later, in 1826, it was first bottled by the King of Piedmont-Sardinia. The ubiquitous and bougie water brand is now celebrating its 200th anniversary by collaborating with a cohort of athletes (tennis stars Carlos Alcaraz, Emma Raducanu, and Francis Tiafoe, and golfer Céline Boutier) and the artist Jeff Koons. Koons’s limited-edition clear glass bottles are for both still and sparkling water. The still bottle has a pink top and an image of one of the artist’s iconic, stainless-steel pink balloon dog; the sparkling one features the same design but in blue. Both are wrapped in a silver ribbon. Related Articles Jeff Koons with his limited-edition Evian bottles. Courtesy Evian Koons’s 12-foot-tall balloon dog sculptures are perhaps his most recognizable artworks. They first appeared in the mid-1990s, as part of the artist’s now-notorious “Celebration” series. Many versions of these exist, in a variety of colors (pink and blue, like on the Evian bottles, plus yellow, …
