We preserve and enhance the uniqueness of wine-aged oak, creating furniture to pass on that defines a new style of sustainable Italian design
LOMBARDY
Interior and exterior
WINETAGE
The oak that absorbed time. Now it takes shape.
Every grain, every nuance of wood brings with it years of silence, wine and waiting. Winetage was born from a gesture of respect: recovering spent oak barrels, not out of nostalgia, but out of evolution. Because that wood, noble, lived, deep, has not exhausted its history : it has only changed its voice. A voice that today is expressed in a sustainable Italian design, capable of combining memory, material and contemporary vision.
How the idea was born
It all begins amid the smells of a wine cellar.
It is there that Winetage's insight was born: discovering that fine oak barrels, used for aging wine, are disposed of and burned after only 5 or 6 years.
A habitual gesture. But also a paradox. In that moment, an image: Michelangelo and that fragile, poor-quality, shapeless block of marble that no one else wanted to sculpt.
Instead, Michelangelo accepted the challenge. Because he saw in that "scrap" something that others did not yet see. For centuries the world has known that "scrap" as the David.
It is from that vision that the project was born: by recovering and reinterpreting oak aged in wine, Winetage transforms what has been set aside into something eternal. Restoring value. Giving new form to time. dSEGNI embraces the philosophy today.: because oak, lived and marked, still has much to tell, and in those traces, often, the observer also finds something of himself.
The design
Each cask is different, like each wine it has kept.
The oak, impregnated with aromas and tannins, allows itself to pass through. It changes color, takes on unique, unrepeatable nuances.
It is this invisible alchemy that guides Winetage creations.
Each Winetage creation is born from the reevaluation of the material in its 2 essential components: the curvature and coloration imprinted by the wine during aging. These attributes accompany and guide the designers' creativity at every stage of the process.
Design does not impose, but listens. It does not shape, but accompanies.
A nontrivial approach and not for everyone.
That is why Winetage scrupulously selects designers and craftsmen who can truly interpret the history of oak, to respect and enhance its curvature, color, and distinctive characteristics.
Thus the integration of elements such as marble, metals, and high-tech Green biological materials also play a key role.
Above all, the marbles, Carrara (Tuscany) and Palissandro (Piedmont), sourced from offcuts and cores, are carefully selected and reinterpreted for Winetage by two stone artists with a long family tradition of craftsmanship.
The curvature
The sleek, minimalist style of Winetage 's creations tells of a natural, gentle design designed to create a real detachment from the professional environment.
Each creation is a dialogue: between wood and marble, between curve and surface, between past and present.
dSEGNI welcomes Winetage for its ability to free form from all rigidity, restoring harmony to it.
The curvilinear language of Winetage's creations, in fact, counters the 90-degree angles, corners and straight lines that dominate contemporary architecture and furniture, elements that extend, often unconsciously, the logic of the work environment: order, hierarchy, authority.
Winetage breaks this symmetry with elegance and respect, leaving it to be the natural curves of the oak to guide the design.
The result is a space that breathes and welcomes.
An environment where the person does not adapt to the object, but finds himself in it.
Because in those softer, flowing lines, there is a form of freedom that resembles the person who chooses them.
WINETAGE
The oak that absorbed time. Now it takes shape.
Every grain, every nuance of wood brings with it years of silence, wine and waiting. Winetage was born from a gesture of respect: recovering spent oak barrels, not out of nostalgia, but out of evolution. Because that wood, noble, lived, deep, has not exhausted its history : it has only changed its voice. A voice that today is expressed in a sustainable Italian design, capable of combining memory, material and contemporary vision.
How the idea was born
It all begins amid the smells of a wine cellar.
It is there that Winetage's insight was born: discovering that fine oak barrels, used for aging wine, are disposed of and burned after only 5 or 6 years.
A habitual gesture. But also a paradox. In that moment, an image: Michelangelo and that fragile, poor-quality, shapeless block of marble that no one else wanted to sculpt.
Instead, Michelangelo accepted the challenge. Because he saw in that "scrap" something that others did not yet see. For centuries the world has known that "scrap" as the David.
It is from that vision that the project was born: by recovering and reinterpreting oak aged in wine, Winetage transforms what has been set aside into something eternal. Restoring value. Giving new form to time. dSEGNI embraces the philosophy today.: because oak, lived and marked, still has much to tell, and in those traces, often, the observer also finds something of himself.
The design
Each cask is different, like each wine it has kept.
The oak, impregnated with aromas and tannins, allows itself to pass through. It changes color, takes on unique, unrepeatable nuances.
It is this invisible alchemy that guides Winetage creations.
Each Winetage creation is born from the reevaluation of the material in its 2 essential components: the curvature and coloration imprinted by the wine during aging. These attributes accompany and guide the designers' creativity at every stage of the process.
Design does not impose, but listens. It does not shape, but accompanies.
A nontrivial approach and not for everyone.
That is why Winetage scrupulously selects designers and craftsmen who can truly interpret the history of oak, to respect and enhance its curvature, color, and distinctive characteristics.
Thus the integration of elements such as marble, metals, and high-tech Green biological materials also play a key role.
Above all, the marbles, Carrara (Tuscany) and Palissandro (Piedmont), sourced from offcuts and cores, are carefully selected and reinterpreted for Winetage by two stone artists with a long family tradition of craftsmanship.
The curvature
The sleek, minimalist style of Winetage 's creations tells of a natural, gentle design designed to create a real detachment from the professional environment.
Each creation is a dialogue: between wood and marble, between curve and surface, between past and present.
dSEGNI welcomes Winetage for its ability to free form from all rigidity, restoring harmony to it.
The curvilinear language of Winetage's creations, in fact, counters the 90-degree angles, corners and straight lines that dominate contemporary architecture and furniture, elements that extend, often unconsciously, the logic of the work environment: order, hierarchy, authority.
Winetage breaks this symmetry with elegance and respect, leaving it to be the natural curves of the oak to guide the design.
The result is a space that breathes and welcomes.
An environment where the person does not adapt to the object, but finds himself in it.
Because in those softer, flowing lines, there is a form of freedom that resembles the person who chooses them.
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