Limited Edition of 10
The Vault
You don't look at this one. You stand in it.
Starting at
$17,000
Engineered before it is offered. Every edition ships with a full architectural drawing set.
Shown in All Black, Black tier with Ultra-Clear Starphire. Starting price reflects the base Signature configuration.
Capacity
662–1,020
Width
11–15 ft
Height
10 ft
Depth
5–7 ft
Three walls
Racked on every side but the door
Elevations A and C mirror each other down the length of the room; B closes the end. You walk in and the collection is on both sides of you at once, which is a different experience from looking at a wall — and the reason people who build one of these stop drinking in the kitchen.
The black
Every surface, including the ones you don't see
Blackened metal racking against black panelling, black ceiling, black cooling louvres. In a room this dark the only things with colour are the bottles, which is exactly the intention. Half-measures show: one brushed-steel vent and the whole illusion goes.
The feature wall
Magnums on floating shelves, lit from behind
The end wall gives up its centre. Floating shelves carry the large formats against a lit panel, framed by racking either side. At six hundred bottles the eye needs somewhere to stop, and this is where we put it.
The base
The one pale thing in the room
Beneath the magnum shelves sits a two-door cabinet finished pale against everything else, flanked by open bays holding original wooden cases unopened. It is the only object in six hundred square feet of black that isn't black, which is why your eye goes to it — and it is also where the corkscrew lives.
FINISH
The Vault
Five ways
Tap a finish — watch it sweep across the room. On this edition black is the drawing, and timber is the upcharge.
All Black
Black & Bronze
Black & Brass
Fumed Oak & Steel
Oak & Brass
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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 room scales by footprint rather than by width. Every tier keeps three walls racked and the far wall's centre given over to the magnum shelves — a room you stand in needs somewhere for the eye to rest.
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 Vault began as shop drawing CWC, Revision 0 — 662 bottles racked on three walls of an eleven-by-five room, ten feet to the ceiling, every surface black. It is the only edition you enter rather than approach, and the only one where the design problem was restraint: at that capacity it would have been easy to fill every inch. Instead the far wall gives up its centre to floating magnum shelves and a lit panel, because a room you stand in needs somewhere for the eye to rest. It was engineered before it was ever offered — loads, airflow, and the envelope it sits inside.
10′
To the ceiling
Eleven by five in the original drawing, ten feet to the ceiling, every surface black including the cooling louvres.
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Pale thing in the room
A two-door cabinet finished pale against everything else. It is where your eye goes, and where the corkscrew lives.
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/vault-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 Vault Black · No. __ of 10,” set into the piece itself.
Technical Specifications
Held to a hundredth.
Edition
Limited — 10 total
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Capacity
662 – 1,020 bottles
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Dimensions
11–15 ft × 5–7 ft × 10 ft H
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The entry
Floor-to-ceiling glass
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The feature wall
Magnums, lit from behind
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The finish
Black · every surface
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The envelope
Built by your contractor
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Lead time
12–16 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 Vault is drawn to your verified opening rather than to a catalogue dimension.
It scales across Eleven to fifteen feet · ten foot 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.