While other cellars connote heritage, Artisan Cellars is a statement of modernity with a dramatic lack of forms and minimal use of curved lines. Wide floor-to-ceiling glass doors beckon the curious and the place is characterised by dramatic right angles. Devoid of images and dominated by white space, the store uses typography to communicate instead. The text quotes famous talk of wine, such as Galileo Galilei’s “Wine is sunlight, held together by water”, bringing users and authors of the space closer together. Etched into whitewashed walls, the quotes overrun from one wall to the next, uniting the space and conversations.

It is a masterpiece of calm, so befitting wine.