The terraced hills above Tain l’Hermitage have been cultivated since Roman times and are reputed for some of the best wine along the Rhone Valley. Delas Frères were determined to renovate a historic, centrally located property, investing in their past, despite the challenges of wine harvesting in an urban context.
Using solid, structural stone, the new wine cellar and shop become walls framing a renovated manor house and its garden. The stone relates to the site, while the thermally inert, porous walls create ideal conditions for wine. Ramps within the winery allow visitors to discover the wine process within an efficient interior, and lead to views of the hills from a roof terrace, and down to the bottle cellar under the manor house. Sunlight enters the visitors’ gallery through a continuous skylight, the undulating wall serving as a light reflector for the tank and barrel halls, where direct light would be detrimental.
Architects: Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect, with Carl Fredrik Svenstedt, Boris Lefevre, Pauline Seguin, Thomas Dauphant, Marion Autuori, Benoit- Joseph Grange
Project: Delas Frères Winery
Location: Tain-l’Hermitage, France
Photography: Dan Glasser, Sergio Grazia
Software used: Rhinoceros, Grasshopper
Landscape Engineers: Christophe Ponceau and Melanie Drevet
Located in Bernal in the state of Querétaro in Mexico Donato is a vineyard that stands outs for offering its visitors an experience that goes beyond the local market. Its privileged location —an hour and a half from Mexico City— gives it a very attractive advantage that is triggering an interest in everything happening in developing area.
The project made for Donato is a complex that, in addition to the vineyard, includes an event hall for 850 people, a gourmet shop, two restaurants, and a cellar for visitors and a special one for the family. Throughout the project you can enjoy magnificent views of Peña de Bernal, this iconic rock landmark surrounded by vines and its kaleidoscope of colors and textures throughout the year.
This restaurant is a result of the collaboration between Mr. Kusuda Takuya, a connoisseur of the Japanese wine scene, and Mr. Miyanaga Hisatsugu, a famous chef. It’s located far from a busy thoroughfare in a quiet part of Ebisu, and access is via private intercom only. I wanted to create a feeling of exclusivity and a special place for diners, different from other restaurants in the area, changing the negative “inconvenient” into a more positive idea. I treated this restaurant not as a standard restaurant, but as a secret special dining space within a world class wine cellar, known only to a select clientele. Guests will gain access via an unmarked entrance, descending to a basement level where doors will open to reveal Mr. Kusuda’s private working space, where Mr. Kusuda will customize and select wines for each customer to purchase. Then a hidden door opens between the shelves, finally entering the dining space.
1881 Napa, Napa Valley’s first wine history museum and tasting salon, is now open. Jean-Charles Boisset, proprietor of Boisset Collection, has created an homage to Napa Valley, with a tasting room that showcases wines from Napa Valley’s distinct sub-appellations, a museum where guests can explore Napa’s rich wine history, an extensive collection of historic wine relics from Europe and the United States and original artifacts from the Early California Wine Trade Archive. 1881 Napa is located in a historic Victorian home built in 1874 next to Oakville Grocery (founded in 1881) in Oakville, California, both of which were purchased by Boisset Collection at the beginning of the year.
A top notch bar! A new wine selling, tasting, and exhibiting space opened in the recently completed Rustonka office complex on Rohanské nábřeží (embankment) – Kolby Wine Bar. Aside from being a public bar, it is also intended for private celebrations and company events. The entire space is designed as an exhibition and presentation of the wines of Kolby vineyards. This modest interior forms a chic background and aims at focusing the attention to the most important item, and that is wine.
There were a lot of criteria that formed the style of this institution: simplicity, conciseness, practicality, relevance of the interior during five years. The main difficulty of the task is a miniature multifunctional space. Visitors – mostly girls, lovers of sweets and champagne, called associations of birds in cages. Copper and arches are not only modern trends, but also an analogy of a golden bird cage.
A new-world outpost of the global Moët Hennessy sparkling wine house, a subsidiary of LVMH, Domaine Chandon has been making superlative méthode traditionelle sparkling wine in the crisp, verdant Yarra Valley for over thirty years.
Our brief was to overhaul the site and create a new brand-immersion across bar, dining, tasting and retail spaces. Inspired by the uplifting ritual of spontaneously popping the cork, we’ve celebrated heritage with a fresh affair fit for the 21st century. Views of the incredible surrounding landscape were a natural starting point for considering the visitor experience, the range of which will traverse loyalists and locals, diehard food and wine thrill-seekers, ‘gramming millennials and new discoverers alike. Fearless application of colour reflects the extraordinary tonal shifts in the environs throughout the seasons.
A stunning bar Winovnik was opened at the center of Dnepr, which is ready to offer the best wine in this city. We have done everything to make all the ideas real, the space, where all attention belongs to wine! At the main hall you can taste 30 kinds of wine and try chef dishes and at the adjacent space you have an opportunity to buy a bottle of wine that you like. Creating a design of the café we were focused on neutral tones and a feeling of lightness. A monochrome of the brick has it’s continuation in calm colors of furniture. Luxury green curtains complement the main color palette and divide space into functional zones.
Assisting one of the leading wine and liquor distributor in Indonesia, we designed a retail and casual dining experience in Plaza Indonesia. One of the main objectives for retail space is to create an inviting space that anyone will feel welcomed and not intimidated. Bright ambiance for clear product information (pricing) that any visitor can check without staff’s assistance, easy access to various products, seamless flow of space; all of these are taken into consideration to enhance product sales. Having casual sitting area also enhance most guests to try product right away with variety of Spanish tapas in premises.
When one of the most exclusive hotels in Southern Africa gave OKHA an open brief to redesign its Cellar bar, lead designer Adam Court combined Japanese reductionist minimalism and post-war Italian Baroque, two seemingly opposing visual styles to execute a complete transformation using what he refers to as “Naked Maximalism”.
Ellerman House is a family run hotel comprising several freestanding villas, a wellness spa, extensive art gallery, wine gallery and terraced gardens which surround the central house, an Edwardian Villa dating back to 1906. Each of these spaces has been given a unique design treatment which is why, when it came to the new bar it was important for the hotel to partner with a design studio they had not previously worked with; bringing fresh eyes to continue and explore the dialogue between contemporary and classical.
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