Cellar Design

Smith & Taylor

Project Portfolio

Manor House Oxfordshire

Smith & Taylor restored and lit the active stream in this manor house cellar. There is a long history of cellars with active streams where the watercourse helps both ventilation and humidity. The low ceiling height encouraged us to design the wine storage on metal hoops within blue framed painted boxes, defined by eighteen bevelled solid oak pillars which increased the visual height of the room and created a theatre of floating bottles. The oak tasting table was also designed and made by Smith & &Taylor.

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Stream

Smith & Taylor restored and lit this running stream below a cellar floor, achieving ventilation, perfect humidity and theatre, all in one.

Cupboard space within your wine room

Joinery within a wine room need not purely be for wine. These beautiful Smith & Taylor cupboards sit proudly with the wine amidst them.

Cotswold Wine Room Oxfordshire

A Smith & Taylor wine store in American oak, combining traditional cellarage for two thousand eight hundred bottles, with strategically placed bottle display towers. Whether part of a designer home, a reflection of a bon viveur collector, or simply designed around an exclusive wine collection, each room stamps its own personality and value to its location.

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Display bottle columns

The introduction of dramatic columns of large format ‘floating’ bottles, devised by Smith & Taylor, enhances this wall of conventional wine storage

Metalwork

Metal can be as versatile as wood in finish and treatment. It is ideal for supporting large format bottles – stainless steel rods can give strength and height to a wine room.

Two Wall Wine Room Hertfordshire

The transformation of two walls to wine in a small space can be spectacular, as vividly shown in the perspective of this image. The wine storage offers individual crafted locations, triangular bins and display for large format bottles.

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Triangular Bins

The wine bin offers a less restrictive space for storing everyday drinking wines without the limitations of bottle sizes or shapes.

Traditional Town House Cellar Westminster

Modern limestone columns and Cornish slate shelves provide a contemporary touch to this period London cellar.

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Stone

Cut stone within a wine room can enhance the joinery finish.

Urban Cellar Barnes

A long narrow space in town can yield up plenty of room for wine storage. In this basement cellar, the corrugated metal effect in the background, with parked bicycle, gives a truly urban feel to this space.

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Cellaring individuals

A crafted location is created to the size of a standard Bordeaux, Burgundy or Champagne bottle – or to any shape or size requested. Each bottle is supported by solid timber runners, rounded or bevelled according to a client’s preference.

Baronial Cellar South Ayrshire

An original brick bin cellar in a Scottish baronial home enabled Smith & Taylor to maintain the essential character of the cellar by making bespoke wine racking to fit within each bin.

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Birch-ply Bins

With ultimate preservation in mind, Smith & Taylor designed the wine storage areas in birch-ply, enhancing the slate arched ceiling and further drawing out the characteristics of the original brick bins.

Large Format Wine Room Belgravia

Every wine room has its key characteristics. In this oak wine room in Belgravia, the client’s desire to display a wall of seventy large format bottles and clad a large peninsular unit in the same, made this room truly extravagant.

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Worktop

A generous run of solid wooden worktop can help define the lines and substance of a Smith & Taylor wine room as well as giving ample space for bottle assembly.

Porthole View

Who says you cannot keep an eye on your wine room from above? This neatly inlaid porthole in a hall floor offers the wine collector a bird’s eye view of his Smith & Taylor cellar at his feet.

Fine Wine Gallery Mayfair

Spectacular collections require specialist exhibiting, as in this private wine museum created by Smith & Taylor. Sixty-eight different vintages of Chateau Mouton Rothschild are displayed under Amiran glass in a walnut cabinet.

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Wine and massage room

What a massage! These ‘floating’ bottles of Dom Perignon were designed to fit into an enclosed, lit, dividing wall between our client’s spa and his Smith & Taylor wine room.

Embellishing the runner shelf

Runner shelves can be enhanced with ornate metal work and integrated lighting.

Stone Cellar Hampstead

A wine store of individual crafted bottle locations in birch, maple and pine, set within blocks of cut Spanish stone.

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Stone

Cut stone within a wine room can enhance the joinery finish.

Fine Wine Dining Room Belgravia

There are few finer pleasures than dining with friends amidst your own wine collection. Smith & Taylor combines the warmth of a dinner party and the richness of wine, with craftsmanship and artistry. The wine dining room in this image offers a perfect backdrop to a dinner party. This intimate room in a Belgravia apartment cellars 1,200 ‘floating’ bottles on metal hoops on three walls of mirrors encased in black ebonised mahogany. Eight individually lit large format bottles, from Magnum to Melchior, are suspended in columns on each side.

‘Super Lit’ Wine Room Kensington

The days of dark, damp cellars are over. The wine room has emerged from the shadows to become an integral and worthy space within an interior designed home. Smith & Taylor’s lighting schemes for wine rooms put the wine centre stage, as revealed in this Kensington mansion.

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Lighting

Smith & Taylor designs safe lighting solutions for displaying wine including ground level uplighting, perimeter and edge lighting, hand motion-detecting lights for label reading, and softly coloured linear lights.By integrating the lighting into our cabinets, we can ensure that the light is seen, but not necessarily its source.

Kitchen Wine Cabinet Holland Park

The kitchen wine cabinet brought new challenges of maximising storage space and maintaining a perfect temperature in a busy room. This two-bottle-deep secure wine cabinet by Smith & Taylor, in Holland Park, stores seven hundred and ninety eight bottles and eight magnums.

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Conditioning Details

Our detailed design schemes incorporate and generally conceal the temperature and humidity controls within our joinery. Smith & Taylor’s use of bespoke woven mesh on arched cabinets, or handmade wooden louvres and frames, softens the uglier aspects of conditioning equipment.

Restaurant Wine Room Casa di Stefano, Mayfair

Sometimes Smith & Taylor has to create a wine room within a restaurant to enhance a dream. This relaxed-style cellar within a restaurant, presenting and cellaring fine wine for authentic Italian food in a warm and inviting atmosphere, hits the spot. Designed in pine, with antique-finished steel to support and display bottles, with bottle drawers clad in authentic Italian case ends, sealed the deal.

Fine Wine Corridor in Glass Middlesex

A wall of wine in low-iron glass bins, through which the Smith & Taylor wine room and its contents can be dramatically viewed, shows the place our glass solutions can play in both storing and displaying wine.

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Glass

Glazing can be used to both define a wine room and to offer storage within.

Fine Wine Cabinet Wimbledon

Fine wine storage has come from a place out of sight to a design feature within the heart of the home. There is no finer example than this Smith & Taylor temperature-controlled cherry wood wine cabinet with curved, beaded doors.

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Glazing

The cabinet glazed doors were inlaid with mahogany beading to reflect the characteristics of a tennis ball curve, in this private member dining room at Wimbledon. The doors themselves were fully sealed for temperature control.

Smith & Taylor’s ‘Pop-Up’ UK Wine Events

For top wine houses showcasing their wines at boutique private wine events, Smith & Taylor hires out a pop-up wine cabinet that reflects our craftsmanship and product quality. This cabinet contains many of the popular design details found across Smith & Taylor’s portfolio, which include:

Triangular Bins on a worktop
Individually crafted bottle locations
Wooden case storage on runner shelves
Display bottles on bespoke metal cradles
Gift box shelving and location labelling
Integrated LED lighting

Club Fine Wine Dining Room Berkeley Square

Imposing banks of wine storage behind a low-iron glass screen and a wall of wine concealed behind leather-finished doors runs the length of this Mayfair dining room. It also incorporates a discreetly-lit cabinet for Impériale, Methusaleh and Jéroboam bottles. This extraordinary mix of wine on display brings substance and atmosphere to this long, colourful Berkeley Square dining room.

Dom Perignon Wine Room Wimbledon

Bottle shapes, capsules and labels are works of art that deserve to be flaunted. The corner towers of Dom Perignon Champagne bottles, suspended on polished stainless steel cradles, framed by their coffrets (gift boxes) offer a defining feature to this beautiful Smith & Taylor cellar in Wimbledon.