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Wine Cellars and Storage Systems

Everyone needs a method to organize their belongings, especially if those belongings happen to be a prized collection of wine. Here are some great new products that help things in order.

Lema, the Italian-designed closet system, features stark, striking styles to organize possessions unobtrusively and with panache. The system can be customize to fit any space configuration. The system comes in ivory, white, bleached or dark oak, teak melamine or a choice of 36 colors. Available through Haute Living, www.haute-living.com.

Revel Custom Wine Cellars is a custom cabinetry system designed from the ground up, made from Honduran mahogany. Its numerous patented and ingenious products include a dowel system that improves bottle visibility, provides easy access, accommodates odd-sized bottles and ensures consistent air flow; the Wine Wheel, a tower construction for a cellar’s corner that displays wine on rotating carousels that seem to float in mid-air; and sliding shelves to provide aesthetic and strain-free storage for cases of wine. Collectors can walk into a cellar and view as much as 70 percent of their wine from the center of the space. Available through Innovative Wine Cellar Designs, 8340 E. Raintree Drive, Suite B9, Scottsdale, AZ 85260; (480) 538-1288, www.winecellardesigns.biz or www.revelcellars.com.

Closet Masters builds custom closets and cabinets using frameless construction and featuring soft-close, ball-bearing glide hardware. The custom systems maximize storage space and are available in standard-priced melamine finishes as well as more than 50 other solid colors, patterns and wood veneers, including maple and cherry. Shown here is a floor-based unit, made with granite, stained alder and mouldings for a traditional look. 16055 N. Dial Blvd., Suite 1, Scottsdale, AZ 85260; (480) 991-4399 or www.closetmasters.net.

Who says wine cellars must be made of wood? A recent custom wine cellar was created using Evonik Cyro’s Acrylite GP .944 acrylic sheet. Designed and fabricated by Architectural Plastics, Inc. for architect Houman Sharif of Butler Armsden Architects of San Francisco, California, the contemporary cellar provides a transparent showcase that has the structural integrity to support the weight of thousands of full bottles of wine. The custom-designed cellar includes bins and drawers. Exposed electrical equipment was obstructed from view by using sandblasted acrylic pedestals. The acrylic sheet is cell-cast and offers excellent optical characteristics, thickness tolerances, light stability, low internal stress levels for consistent performance and numerous times the breakage resistance of standard window glass. www.cyro.com.