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Wine shop · Bourbon
Interior design of a wine shop, 131 m²
HoReCa · 131 m² · Completed
About the project
The interior is built on hedonism and on the search for the perfect bottle in a labyrinth of tastes. The design of the wine shop grew from a sense of how fleeting material things seem next to drinks of real value. A diffraction effect built into the room heightens the sense of trembling, ephemeral light, and the many reflections in mirrored and glossy surfaces give the space a fourth dimension, beyond ordinary human perception. The restrained overall palette, the contrast, the graphic quality and a certain severity all follow from the character of a brand known for its spirits. Even so, the sober colours are broken by emotional, philosophical accents: paintings and a wall panel of natural moss.
Client request
A shop trading under an established spirits brand moved into a new 131 m² space and needed a new interior. Our task was to freshen up the brand's static look and create a functional, aesthetically new space: a retail floor, a tasting area for wine and cheese with a 12-seat bar area, a wine cellar (a cold room), a workshop for handmade chocolates, an office and a WC. There was a separate requirement to allow for the way wine is stored and sold: temperature, lighting and the way stock is laid out.
Challenge
The main difficulty was to bring several areas with quite different functions (retail, tasting, cold cellar, workshop and office) into one coherent layout within 131 m², and to move away from the brand's static image while keeping its spirits-led character. Strict conditions for storing wine had to be met, and at the same time the space had to feel emotional and hedonistic.
Concept
The starting point was hedonism: the search for the right drink among countless tastes. A restrained, high-contrast, graphic palette answers the character of strong drink. The materials were chosen to age well: metal, timber, black and mirrored glass, porcelain stoneware, concrete and natural moss. Light diffraction and the many reflections in glossy and mirrored surfaces give the space a fourth dimension. We offset the restraint with emotional accents, paintings and a wall panel of natural moss, and worked the brand's visual identity into the room through a set of striking louvred screens.
The bar counter of the tasting area became the compositional centre of the room: the route to it runs past the display cases, so the eye has time to catch on the bottles.
Result
The result is a coherent 131 m² space where the retail floor, the 12-seat tasting area, the wine cellar, the chocolate workshop, the office and the WC all work as one. Almost all the furniture in the retail and tasting areas was made to our own designs: dome pendants in chased copper, worktops cut from whole trunks, a basin carved from solid timber. Along the way we developed the brand's visual identity and built it into the interior.
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131 m²
Floor area
8 months
Build time
4 months
Design period
Floor plan of the project “Interior design of a wine shop, 131 m²”
- 01Retail floor
- 02Cold room
- 03Vestibule
- 04WC
- 05Stockroom
- 06Office
- 07Cleaner's cupboard / stockroom
Zones of the project “Interior design of a wine shop, 131 m²”
Materials
In choosing materials, one consideration mattered a great deal: that they should age well over the life of the interior. That led us to metal, timber, black and mirrored glass, porcelain stoneware, concrete and natural moss.
Interior
The wine shop takes in a retail floor, a tasting area with 12 seats, a wine cellar in the form of a cold room, a workshop for handmade chocolates, a staff office and a WC.
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Frequently asked questions about the project
How much does it cost to design a wine shop?
The price depends on floor area, materials and whether design supervision is needed. For a 131 m² space such as this one, count on several months of work and a budget that is worked out after the brief and the measurements. Quoting a figure without seeing the space would be guesswork, as too much varies: shelving for the bottles, the tasting counter, the lighting of the display cases.
How should a 131 m² wine shop be zoned?
Here we divided the floor area into a retail area with display cases and a tasting space: a guest walks past the shelves before sitting down at the counter. That works for takings, because the longer the eye stays on the bottles, the more likely an impulse purchase becomes.
What interior style suits a wine shop?
We chose a loft style: concrete, metal and rough-textured timber, materials that carry the drinks theme visually and do not compete with the labels. A loft interior also forgives exposed services and warehouse shelving, which keeps both the budget and the installation simpler.
What does a commercial design project for a wine shop include?
A layout with a retail and a tasting block, drawings for shelving built around the particular range of stock, lighting for the display cases, the selection of materials and a full set of technical documentation for the contractor. On request we take on design supervision on site as well.
How long does a project of this size take?
For 131 m², allow around four months from the brief to a complete drawing set. We work with clients in person or remotely, depending on the project.
How does the design address the needs of selling wine and spirits?
The lighting and the materials are chosen so that the bottles read as goods rather than background: directed light on the shelves, dark planes for contrast, display cases at eye level. ARTEVRIKA designs spaces of this kind around how a customer moves through them, not only around a good photograph.