Carved from rich green marble, Needs the Tonic is a faithful stone recreation of the iconic Tanqueray gin bottle. Part of Robin Antar's ongoing Realism in Stone series, this work transforms an instantly recognizable object of everyday life into a permanent work of fine art. The deep, jewel-toned green of the marble mirrors the bottle's signature color, blurring the line between the sculptural and the familiar. Antar's meticulous hand-carving captures every curve and detail of the bottle's form, elevating a symbol of social ritual and leisure into something timeless. Like all of Robin's work, this piece asks us to look again at the objects we reach for without thinking, and to consider what they say about who we are and the culture we live in.