New York-based designer and Pratt graduate Emily Rothschild is interested in making the ritual of medication both more convenient and more beautiful. Her carafe and glass set, called Medical Glassware, wraps the ritual of taking pills into the familiar bedside carafe, replacing clunky plastic containers and cassettes. By integrating pills into the bottom of the cup, medication comes out of the medicine cabinet and into central domestic space, no longer hidden.
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