This wine rack was custom designed to fit under a floating staircase in a townhouse in Toronto’s Niagara neighbourhood. The wine rack combines reclaimed Douglas Fir salvaged from Toronto’s Historic Distillery District and a custom welded steel frame. Incredibly durable and sturdy, this piece will have no problems supporting the wine and liquor that will find a home on its shelves.

The Douglas Fir for this project was milled from cants that came from the one of the rack houses of the that stood in Toronto’s Distillery District. It was in these warehouses that Gooderham & Worts stored and aged their whiskey. The upshot of this that that over the decades the wood racking became imbued with this stunning aroma. Each cut unleashes a fresh plume of malted goodness.

We chose hot-rolled steel for the frame of the wine rack to match the steel of the stair case. Hot-rolled steel when finished with a clear varnish/epoxy takes on a vibrant gunmetal grey/black patina that is simply gorgeous and which can’t be achieved with a paint. There’s something wonderfully fluid about the raw cleaned and clear-coated raw steel.

Kaya, the dog, while an integral part of the process, is not included as part of the finished product!