Limited Edition of 10
The Hourglass
About 750 bottles around an hourglass of diamond bins.
Starting at
$14,750
Engineered before it is offered. Every edition ships with a full architectural drawing set.
Shown as rendered in the studio concept. Starting price reflects the base Signature configuration; the edition is drawn to your room on commission.
Capacity
750
Width
To your room
Height
Floor to ceiling
Depth
Walk-in
The hourglass
A shape you can read from the door
The back wall is drawn as an hourglass: diamond bins narrowing to a glowing antiqued mirror, then widening again below it. From across the living room it is the first thing you recognise, before you see a single label.
The bins
Pattern, then bottles
Within the triangles the bottles lie cork-forward in diamond bins edged in pale oak. It is the most efficient storage in the room and, laid out this way, the most decorative.
The niches
Standing, and lit
Either side of the hourglass, floating oak shelves in lit niches hold bottles and magnums upright and label-forward. They are the display half of a room that is also very good at storage.
The room
Old World, in a modern house
Tumbled whitewashed limestone on every surface, pale oak against dark racking, cubbies for full wooden cases, and a slim steel-framed front opening off a bright living room.
FINISH
The Hourglass
Four ways
Tap a finish to sweep it across the room. As shown is included; the alternates change the timber and metal and leave the design untouched. The edition is ten across every finish, so a finish no one else chooses can be yours alone.
As Shown
Walnut & Bronze
Fumed Oak & Steel
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.
The Hourglass is shown at about 750 bottles. It is drawn to your room on commission rather than sold in sizes: the hourglass, the niches and the case cubbies hold their proportion, and capacity follows the room. Counts are confirmed at specification.
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 Hourglass is a concept from the Prestige studio: a whitewashed-limestone wine room whose back wall draws an hourglass. A triangle of diamond bins rises to a glowing antiqued mirror and an inverted triangle falls away beneath it, flanked by lit display niches, cubbies sized for full wooden cases and floor-to-ceiling racking down both side walls.
About 750 bottles as shown, in display, in bulk and in the cases they arrived in. It is drawn on commission, to your room, with the hourglass held at the centre and the rest set to your walls.
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Triangles
An upright and an inverted triangle of diamond bins, meeting at a lit mirror.
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Room in stone
The first edition clad in stone on every surface: walls, piers and ceiling.
How It Works
Designed by us. Installed by yours (Or Us!).
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 then submits verified opening dimensions before anything goes into production.
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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/hourglass-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 Hourglass · No. __ of 10,” set into the piece itself.
Technical Specifications
Held to a Standard.
Edition
Limited — 10 total
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Capacity
about 750 bottles · as shown
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Dimensions
Drawn to your room
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The hourglass
Diamond bins · lit mirror
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The X-bins
Diamond · cork-forward
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The niches
Standing magnums · lit
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Glass
Black steel-framed · centre door
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Lead time
Drawn on commission · then 8–12 weeks
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Questions
Answered.
Who installs it?
Your own contractor. Every edition is engineered as a complete wine cellar 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 Hourglass is drawn to your verified opening rather than to a catalogue dimension.
It scales across Drawn to your room · stone-clad, floor to ceiling, 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.