Limited Edition of 10
The Apse
The only curve in the collection.
Starting at
$5,000
Engineered before it is offered. Every edition ships with a full architectural drawing set.
Shown in Oak & Brass, Black tier with Ultra-Clear Starphire. Starting price reflects the base Signature configuration.
Capacity
138–190
Width
60–96"
Height
9 ft
Depth
18 in
The arch
A curve is the hardest thing to build
The head is a true radius — laminated, shaped and finished as one piece, with the glass cut to follow it rather than stopped square beneath it. There is no applied moulding hiding a straight frame. It is the reason this design took longer to engineer than anything else we have drawn, and the reason it is the only one.
The columns
A hundred and two bottles, label out
Two tall runs flank the centre, every bottle held on a pin and turned label-forward. Nothing stacks and nothing hides. You read the collection the way you read a shelf of books — standing back, at a glance.
The centre
Thirty-six corks, facing you
Below the floating shelves the centre bay turns the bottles end-on: a grid of corks, six by six, dense and quiet. It is the counterweight to the display columns — the part of the cellar that is working rather than performing.
The light
Routed into the panel, not stuck to it
The LED channel is cut into the back panel before finishing, so the light appears to come from inside the wood rather than from a strip fixed to it. Warm, low, and aimed at the glass rather than at the room.
FINISH
The Apse
Five ways
Tap a finish — watch it sweep across the piece.
Oak & Brass
Walnut & Bronze
Fumed Oak & Steel
Ebony & Brass
All Black
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Custom
Selected finish
As designed
Glass
Light
Custom finish
Every material opens up — species, stain, metal, glass and stone chosen with us rather than from a list. Available on any edition, priced above the authored finishes. Still numbered.
Edition of Ten
Reserve your edition.
Three decisions: how deep it runs, which specification, and how you’d like it delivered. Cooling, structural load and engineering are ours — they’re never a question you have to answer.
An arch that keeps widening flattens, and a flat arch looks like a mistake rather than a decision. Grand is the last width where the curve still reads as a curve. Beyond that the answer is Custom.
Included in price
Have this configuration sent to you
We'll email the specification exactly as you've built it. No obligation, no drawings released.
Pricing shown is indicative. Final price is confirmed after field verification of your opening.
What Design Plans includes
Full architectural drawings dimensioned to your verified opening — plan, elevations, sections and details — plus structural load calculations, a complete material schedule listing every component, finish and quantity, and the cooling specification sized for your configuration. A licensed set, not a sketch.
Materials are not supplied at this level. Our racking, glass and cooling partners sell through authorised dealers only, so if you’d like us to supply and crate the components, choose Design + Materials.
Credited if you upgrade. The full plans fee is credited toward Design + Materials or Design + Build if you move up within twelve months.
Licensed for one build at one address. Not transferable and not for resale.
Provenance
Drawn, then built.
The Apse began as shop drawing BJC-018, Revision A — 138 bottles closed under a single arch, seventy inches across and just under nine feet to the crown. It is the only piece in the collection that curves, and the curve is not decoration: the head is a true radius, laminated and shaped, with the glass cut to follow it. That is why nobody offers an arched wine cellar off a shelf. It was engineered before it was ever offered — the arch load-checked, the glass specified to the radius, the cooling sized. What you receive is that engineering, drawn to your opening.
9′
To the crown
Seventy inches across and just under nine feet to the top of the radius. The proportion is the design.
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The only curve
A true radius — laminated, shaped and finished as one piece, with the glass cut to follow it rather than stopped square beneath it.
How It Works
Designed by us. Installed by yours.
Every edition ships as a complete, engineered kit — crated, numbered, and ready for your contractor.
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Reserve your edition
Choose your size, specification and delivery. We assign your edition number and open the drawing, engineered to your verified opening.
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Field verification
Your contractor mounts the channel first, then submits verified opening dimensions before any glass is cut.
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Fabrication
Posts, racking, glass, lighting and hardware are fabricated to your verified measurements — in parallel, with the longest-lead component setting the schedule.
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Crated delivery
Everything arrives palletized and labeled by install sequence, with a printed guide and video for each assembly.
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Your contractor installs
Posts anchor floor to ceiling, the base sets like millwork, and the glass drops into the channel. We’re on call throughout.
Box & Papers
Owned by ten. Documented like it.
A fine watch is worth more with its box and papers. Your cellar arrives the same way.
The Ownership Card
Black anodised · No. 01 of 10
The ownership card.
Black anodized metal, laser-etched with the model, specification and edition number. It lives with the deed — not in a drawer.
The etched code opens your cellar’s private record: original drawings, material schedule, appraisal, and complete service history.
Scan → prestigecellars.com/registry/apse-01
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The portfolio
A linen-bound folio holding the certificate of authenticity, signed and dated to your edition number.
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As-built drawings
Your full shop drawings and material schedule — every finish, fitting and post spec, as installed.
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Appraisal letter
A written valuation for insurance today, and for the listing when the home eventually sells.
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Brass plaque
Engraved “The Apse Black · No. __ of 10,” set into the piece itself.
Technical Specifications
Held to a hundredth.
Edition
Limited — 10 total
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Capacity
138 – 190 bottles
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Dimensions
60–96" W × ~108" H × 18" D
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The arch
True radius · laminated
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Display
Pinned · label-forward
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Lighting
Routed into the panel
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Glass
Cut to the radius
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Lead time
8–12 weeks · by configuration
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Questions
Answered.
Who installs it?
Your own contractor. Every edition is engineered as a kit — components arrive crated, numbered and drawn to your verified opening, with an installation set a competent carpenter can work from. No specialty glazier, no factory crew flown across the country. In Texas we install it ourselves if you’d rather.
Will it fit my space?
Almost certainly, and it won’t need to be a standard size.
The Apse is drawn to your verified opening rather than to a catalogue dimension.
It scales across Five to eight feet wide · nine feet tall, and the proportions hold at any size in that range.
What happens if a measurement is wrong?
The sequence is built to prevent it. The channel and framing ship first and are installed before anything is cut. Your contractor then returns signed, verified opening dimensions, and only then is the glass cut and the racking finalised. Nothing expensive is fabricated against a number nobody has checked.
What’s included, and what isn’t?
Included: the architectural drawing set, all racking and display components, glass, lighting, hardware, the cooling unit sized for your configuration, and crated delivery. Not included: the wall or enclosure itself, electrical supply, and finish work by others. The drawing set states exactly which trades you need and what each is responsible for.
How long does it take?
It varies with the design — components are fabricated in parallel, and the longest one sets the schedule. Millwork runs eight to twelve weeks; metalwork two to four; frameless glass and mirrors about two; the cooling unit about two. Insulated glass doors are the long lead at twelve to sixteen weeks. Your drawing set states the schedule for your exact configuration before anything is fabricated.
What happens if the cooling fails?
Cooling is the one part that fails invisibly — you don’t find out until the wine does. Every edition is sized and specified by us rather than chosen from a list, and Prestige Care covers it from there. If a unit needs a technician the $500 service call is credited toward a replacement.
Is it really only ten?
Yes. Ten of each design, each numbered and recorded in the registry, and then the edition closes for good. The drawings aren’t reissued and the design isn’t rerun under another name.
Can I change the materials?
Yes — that’s Custom, available on any edition. Species, stain, metal finish, glass and stone are chosen with us rather than from a list, and layout or proportions can change too. Still numbered, still part of the edition, and priced above the authored finishes.