This project is a transformation of a basement crawl space into a barrel vaulted wine cellar.
The center focal piece is an African Purple Heart table hand made and includes ‘secret’ drawer which opens with a magnetic key to house lap top. We distressed the edges by beating it with chains and even rolled over the wood with a truck. After sanding and sealing, the surface is incredibly smooth.
An Italian mirror is integrated into wooden storage wall to disguise a wall safe.
The wood structure is hand stamped with small alphabetical and numerical branding coding system to organize the wine collection.
The introduction of metal as art form into a recent corporate headquarters project in palo alto has opened eyes to another level of appreciation for the beauty of materials in their natural state. Striving for LEED Gold - the substitution of recycled metal for typical wall construction materials incorporates a shift of perspective on the Structure as Finish concept and introduces an high tech Rorschach test ....
Metal wall - Stoller Metals.. = beetlejuice meets modernism - a metal wrapped canted wall can add just the touch of Wow to a space with minimal construction complications
Metal represented as art via porcelain tile.. thanks to Dal Tile. .. .. its an organic form that some how has been mastered by glazing artists to repeat in enough mass production to be a great price in large format tile but yet complex enough in each tile to be beautiful- appearing unique even over large installations . Taken out of context and adding a frame it could be a stormy watercolor
