The Collector Bodega by Zsolt Szalai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Plata in Diseño de Mobiliario Competition Category.

PlataMobiliario· 2023

The Collector Bodega

by Zsolt Szalai

Client: BFZ Barrierefreie Zone GmbH

A' Design Award de Plata Winner in Mobiliario Category

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Colors

The Design

About The Collector Bodega

Una bodega que atrae todas las miradas. Está hecho a mano y planeado para un verdadero amante del vino. La combinación de los marcos de acero bruñido con el vidrio aislante parcialmente coloreado le da un aspecto estable pero al mismo tiempo aireado. Con un control de temperatura especial, esta sala sin cita previa proporciona suficiente espacio para enfriar, almacenar y recolectar vino. En el lado opuesto, hay una puerta pivotante, también hecha a mano en acero bruñido. En los huecos de la puerta, se encuentra nuevamente el vidrio coloreado.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Plata

The Collector Bodega ha ganado el A' Design Award de Plata, un reconocimiento extraordinariamente prestigioso concedido a diseños de gama alta, magníficos e impresionantes. Los ganadores de Plata son obras tremendamente brillantes y sumamente creativas que ilustran la destacada experiencia, el talento y la agudeza de sus diseñadores. Se espera que The Collector Bodega sea una obra maravillosa y emblemática, notablemente profesional y profundamente innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Plata es una invención muy notable y admirada que beneficia y hace avanzar las fronteras del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología. The Collector Bodega es una creación enormemente envidiada que evoca deseos, aporta sentimientos positivos y despierta asombro y admiración.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: A wine cellar that draws all eyes. It is handmade and planned for a real wine lover.
The combination of the burnished steel frames with partially colored insulating glass, make it look stable but at the same time airy.
With special temperature control, this walk-in room provides enough space for cooling, storing and collecting wine.
On the opposite side, there is a pivot door, also handmade of burnished steel. In the recesses of the door, the colored glass is found again.
Dimensions & Packaging: The collector has an approximate total size of 7 square meters.
Tags: timeless, luxurious, sculpture, unique, colored glass, steel, wien cellar
Production Technology: The materials used for this project were DuPont Corian, burnished steel and insulating glass, some colored, some transparent.
Design Challenge: The plan was to have two wine refrigerators, which did not look very inviting. When the artist Zsolt Szalai heard about it, it motivated him to plan something special from instead, because collecting and drinking wine is a special form of art.
Research: For the burnished steel, the artist has developed a secret technology with which he treats the steel to achieve this special effect. This type of surface treatment and the production by hand make each piece unique.
Inspiration: The 3-floor house, in which the wine cellar and the pivot door are located, has been purposely reduced and conceptually planned. When the construction of the house was in full progress, the designer, Zsolt Szalai, had a vision about the collector.
Project Duration: The project duration was from May to June 2021, in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria.
Operation Flow: The artist planned to use subtle color accents in the form of colored glass to create more coziness. The semi-transparent colors can now be found in the glass front of the wine cellar as well as in the openings of the opposite pivot door.
Image Credits: 1: Photographer Matthias Streibel, The collector with colored glass, 2022
2: Photographer Matthias Streibel, The collector without colored glass, 2022
3: Photographer Matthias Streibel, pivot door, 2022
4: Photographer Matthias Streibel, pivot door and staircase, 2022
5: Photographer Matthias Streibel, Details, 2022