The Peacock Cantina di Vinu by Kyle MertensMeyer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award di Platinu in Disignu d'Interiori Competition Category.
PlatinuInteriori· 2022
The Peacock Cantina di Vinu
Client: Godolphin
A' Design Award di Platinu Winner in Interiori Category
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The Design
About The Peacock Cantina di Vinu
U Peacock hè una cantina di vinu di circa dece metri quadrati. A cantina hè rivestita di mille piastrelle di terracotta invernicata turchina, ognuna furmata è finita à manu. E piastrelle sò disposte in un arrangiamentu à tripla curva ispiratu da a forma di un paone. Ogni piastrella tene una buttiglia di vinu è porta una piccula luce chì illumina a piastrella sottu, cusì l'unica altra fonte di luce hè un solu spot sopra à a tavula centrale. E piastrelle sò state fatte da artigiani in Jingdezhen, in Cina, aduprendu una vernice turchina cù una tessitura di piuma di a Dinastia Song. U rinfriscamentu hè gestitu da un cuntrollore intelligente.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award di Platinu
The Peacock Cantina di Vinu hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Platinu, una ricunniscenza estremamente prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni veramente eccezziunali, eleganti è magnifichi. I vincitori di Platinu sò maraviglie di a creazione, testimunianze di i limiti di a creatività intellettuale, è dimustranu a prufessiunalità incomparabile è u geniu di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì sti disegni sianu l'opere più rinumate chì definiscenu l'estetica d'una epoca, cuntribuiscenu à u benessere di a sucetà è allarganu i limiti di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia. The Peacock Cantina di Vinu mostra un livellu trascendente d'eccellenza è face di u mondu, senza dubbitu, un locu megliu cù e so caratteristiche vantaghjose è preziose. The Peacock Cantina di Vinu hè una opera vincitrice di u premiu A' Design Award di Platinu chì risveglia disideri, ispira, rallegra è face nasce una grande gioia.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Peacock Cellar's use of ancient craftsmanship combined with contemporary fabrication technologies creates a beautiful and intentional joining of past and present. The blue tone of the cellar comes from one thousand individually handcrafted blue glazed clay tiles, glistening like the peacock's feathers. The symbolism of the peacock showcases both elegance and strength. To create these tiles, the design team and client worked with artisans from the historic porcelain town of Jingdezhen, China, known for the most exquisite porcelain throughout the dynasties.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Within the 10m2 cellar, the feathered tiles are splayed using a triple curved parametric array inspired by the majestic form of the peacock. The cellar tiles are designed with a dual purpose to hold each bottle and serve the cellar's light source. 3D printing was used to prototype the shape of tiles for stability. Additionally, at the base of each tile is a single small LED that lights the tile beneath the other; there is no additional lighting within the cellar other than a single spotlight directed downward above the central table resembling the peacock's head.
- Tags
- Terra-cotta, Wine Cellar, Blue, Glazing, Song Dynasty, Jingdezhen, Tile, Parametric, 3D-Printing
- Production Technology
- For over two years, the artisans worked to recreate the glazing for each tile one by one in small kilns. Incredibly, the technique required extreme heat to achieve the blue color tone, and as a result, only 1 in 10 pieces crafted survived in the end. For every tile seen in the cellar, nine others cracked in the extreme heat or were flawed. Due to the difficulty and time needed to create such craftsmanship, it's unlikely that such work would be attempted again or repeated by others, making this a one-of-a-kind piece of art for our time.
- Design Challenge
- The most challenging aspect of this project was to create the specific blue feathered glazing for the terra-cotta tiles. More than fifty artisans attempted, and only one prevailed. The process of creating each was long and intensive. Each tile was made as a hollow sculpture and glazed in blue twice. Extreme heat needed to create the blue color caused many of the tiles to crack in the process and required delicate expertise. Our team and the artisans realized through this process why this glazing typology had been a rarity throughout history.
- Research
- The primary research required for this project pertained to testing the shape of the blue terra-cotta tile and its ability to safely hold the wine bottles while still allowing ease of access. The team used a series of 3d printed prototypes and shake tests to evolve the shape of the tile. Additionally, the team used the 3D printed prototypes to build mockups to study the lighting integration methods for the wine cellar.
- Inspiration
- From 960-1127, during the Song Dynasty, artisans crafted a unique style of feather-textured blue porcelain glaze. Since then, this particular blue glazing technique has disappeared. Our team spent months searching for artisans who could bring back this feather-textured glazing technique as the key feature for this cellar.
- Project Duration
- The Project Began in January 2019 in Shanghai, China, and was completed in July 2021.
- Operation Flow
- The cellar operation is designed to be seamless and functions with ease. The primary cooling function is controlled by a smart controller with access via APP for the wine cellar's owner. Additionally, a custom aluminum ladder was designed to access wine bottles at elevated heights. The ladder is light and easily moved as it attaches to a floated steel ring around the top of the cellar.
- Patents
- N/A
- Team Members
- Kyle MertensMeyer
Ni Yangchao
Tang Linwei - Image Credits
- Main image is Image #1: Wen Studio
Optional Image #1: Dirk Weiblen Photography
Optional Image #2: Dirk Weiblen Photography
Optional Image #3: Wen Studio
Optional Image #4: Wen Studio
Video Credit: Wen Studio
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