Design Indaba – Flow Chart

There’s something very romantic about winemaking depicted as a linear process against a wall.

Drawing on the surrounding Stellebosch landscape for inspiration, Lorenzo Nassimbeni has recently completed a mural for the new winery building of Neil Ellis Wines.

Nassimbeni describes the mural as an “architectural site section”. It depicts a distilled interpretation of the process of winemaking. The mural gives this process a feeling of sensuality and status.

Design Indaba

8 November 2010

If walls could speak

In a project that he describes as one of his most significant works to date, Cape Town architect and designer Lorenzo Nassimbeni has conceived and completed a striking mural for Neil Ellis Wines in Stellenbosch.

In its most basic form, the mural is an architectural “site section” that shows the new winery building in the context of its surrounding landscape. The work depicts the romantic process of winemaking, and is composed of three elements – mountain, building and vineyard – which inter-relate to form an overall linear narrative.

VISI

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Double Gold

Neil Ellis Woolworths Sauvignon Blanc 2010

Veritas Wine Awards

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