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Living with Wine: Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and Imbibing
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Features over 25 of the most fabulous and inventive wine cellars in America today and conveys what it means to be passionate about wine--to collect it, to entertain with it and to deeply enjoy it--in a book with 300 color photographs.
Publishers Description
America's love of wine has spurred a collecting and entertaining phenomenon.
Some of America's most passionate oenophiles have re-invented the wine cellar as an inviting and beautiful part of the home.
True collectors love to share their passion, and this book offers a tour of their distinctive cellars. Created with the help of some of the best designers in the field, these rooms blend luxurious design aesthetics with ingenious storage solutions. The thirty stunning spaces featured include a traditional wood cellar finished with rich paneling and ornate lighting; a cathedral-like space that showcases ironwork inspired by the French Quarter of New Orleans (and has a secret entry from a library inside the house); an inviting living room lined with temperature-controlled wood alcoves behind insulated glass; and an Old World terra-cotta cellar–within a sprawling entertainment center that includes a wet bar, a billiards table, and a tasting room.
Living with Wine reveals the details that make the cellars a welcoming place to return–from the materials, artwork, lighting, and cutting-edge preservation technology to the way the space harmonizes with the rest of the house. From the Bay Area to Boston, Napa to New York, homeowners such as Nancy and John Lasseter, the founder of Pixar Studios; American Idol host and TV and radio personality Ryan Seacrest; and entrepreneur Rick Ryan share insights into what they collect, why they started collecting, and how they designed their spaces to fit their passion.
This elegant volume shows what it means to love and collect wine.
The book just begs you to open it.
--Steve Bachmann, Vinfolio.com
"A gorgeous photographic trip to the cellars of our dreams"
--Eric Asimov, The New York Times
"Bottom Line: Every wine collector would love to have this book."
--Steve Bachmann, CEO Vinfolio
"From Napa Valley to Massachusetts, they’ve cultivated a mix of some
of the most dynamic uses of space (an under-the-staircase wine
cellar?) and the most incredible wine collections (20,000 bottles
owned by one person?)."
--Wall Street Journal Magazine
"Highly recommended for all wine aficionados!"
--Vicente Wolf Blog
SAMANTHA NESTOR is the special projects editor at Metropolitan Home magazine and a contributor to POINTCLICKHOME.com. She regularly lectures on a variety of topics relating to interior design and architecture, and has appeared on television and radio and in publications, including the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, Architectural Record, and Gotham. The author of The Luxury Bathroom and a graduate of Cornell University, Nestor lives in Weston, Connecticut, with her husband and son.
ALICE FEIRING is a James Beard Award—winning wine writer, author of The Battle for Wine and Love, and creator of the wine blog Veritas in Vino. She is the wine editor for the Los Angeles Times, and writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal, Saveur, the New York Times, and other publications.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 256
Dimensions: Length: 1" Width: 11.25" Height: 12.75"
Weight: 4.6 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Oct 27, 2009
Publisher Clarkson Potter
ISBN 0307407896
EAN 9780307407894
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 | Living With Wine Jan 6, 2010 |
This book offers the wine lover a voyeuristic peek into thirty of the most extravagant and spectacular wine cellars in the United States. One cannot help but marvel at the grandeur of some of these rooms and the impressive wine collections contained therein. The stories behind the passionate wine collectors and their distinctive cellars is told by James Beard Award-winning wine writer, Alice Feiring, in conjunction with noted interior design and architecture writer, Samantha Nestor. The color photography of Andrew French is stunning and amplified by the large size of this volume.
The book is divided into five parts: the Entertaining Pair's Lair, the Gentlemen's Haven, the Sybarite's Sanctuary, the Modernist Refuge, and Urban Retreats and Inspiring Spaces. The size of most of these cellars indicates the zeal with which wine connoisseurs will pursue their collection. While most of the featured cellars royally display 2,000 to 3,000 bottles, more than enough wine for most imbibers, one mind-boggling cellar houses 60,000 bottles of fine wine.
Most readers can only dream about having such lavish cellars for their beloved wine collections. The book does not give any estimates of the cost of designing and building these eye-popping wine cellars, but clearly these architectural marvels came at a considerable expense, in some cases exceeding the value of the wines resting inside.
This work is a coffee table book at heart that will please those who delight in marveling at what extremes collectors will go to in displaying their beloved wines. It will be particularly appealing to those who find admiration in the creative designs that the owners and artisans display in these distinctive wine cellars. The volume may even stimulate readers to embark on their own wine cellar project. | | | | One for the wine connoisseur Nov 13, 2009 |
| For wine aficionados, this is the ultimate guide to create fabulous wine rooms that can rival the best of high end wine stores. To me, it will be a good guide for showing clients the possibilities of how to approach a wine room with commercial and residential applications. Definitely one for the wine connoisseur. | | | Write your own review about Living with Wine: Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and Imbibing
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