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Eamonn advises on engineering, climate control, lighting and layout. The engagement is design consultancy. It is not a building contract, a supply agreement, or an installation.
A cellar for a collection you mean to keep. The advice covers how the room is planned, how the wine is held, and how it is lit so a bottle can be found without harming the wine around it. Temperature, humidity, light, vibration and access are part of that brief. Your designer and your builder make the room.
Service cellars, reserve rooms and display. Capacity, the path staff take to a bottle, temperature for wine by the glass and for wine you want to age, and lighting that belongs in a dining room. The work is coordinated with your interior designer. Eamonn does not fit out the venue.
Guest cellars, sommelier stores and rooms used for events. Layout, climate and lighting are planned with the hotel’s design team and the people who will run the room. Construction stays with the contractor already appointed to the hotel.
Commercial rooms carry a different load: volume, logging, and a climate that has to hold. Eamonn advises on the design intent for the envelope, the plant and the layout of storage and dispatch. The warehouse contractor, the refrigeration contractor and their insurers deliver the facility and warrant it.
He was chief executive of Artisan Wine Storage when it opened a climate-controlled facility in Lane Cove West, and he designed Methuselah’s Cellar there. The case study keeps to the published facts.
You remain the design lead. Eamonn is instructed by you or by your client, and the fee letter names who instructs him. He works into your drawing set: comments, cellar layouts, and briefs for climate and light that your consultants and trades can price and build. He does not replace you, and he does not direct the builder around you.
In practice that usually means:
Fees are on enquiry. Nothing on this page is a price. Read the engagement terms.