Le Grand Livre or The Big Book is the historical ledger that marks the establishment of the world’s oldest champagne house, founded by Nicolas Ruinart in 1729. In Ruinart’s latest art collaboration, the brand handed this vital artifact to Paris-based Scottish artist Georgia Russell, to create an unfurling, elegant sculpture inspired by its pages. Alongside the bounded art piece that will feature in art fairs worldwide, individual ornaments are wrapped around each bottle of Blanc de Blancs, each tear-drop notch playing with the light reflected by the champagne and its symbolic chardonnay grape. The sculptor drew inspiration from the walls of Ruinart’s Crayères, chalk cellars deep under the city of Reims that were hollowed out in the Roman era and now house millions of bottles. “I was given a tour of the chalk pits and was immediately inspired by what seemed like these underground sculptures,” says Russell. “They seemed like beautiful drawings—the chiseled stairs are particularly amazing, like Ruinart’s pale arteries.” Recognized for her work that reimagines vintage books, musical scores and photography, Russell graduated from London’s Royal College of Art in 2002 and has since shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Art & Design in New York and the Pompidou in Paris. “It was an honor to create something which would bring history and time to our attention,” says the artist. “I wanted the case to be very simple yet tactile. My work echoes the repetition of the chiseled chalk pits through my cutting technique.”