wanted this to be separate from the living room: “My kitchen
is used for cooking. A lot of work goes on there, it gets
dirty and food is left lying around”, laughs the vintner. She
commissioned Elias Holocher to design the kitchen, which is
separated from the living room by an oak partition wall that is
coated in chalkboard paint and features a hatch. His greatest
challenge when doing so? “Adopting and continuing the
design of the interior”, explains the kitchen designer. Elias
and his team succeeded in combining functionality and the
purist design. He did this by installing the BORA Professional
2.0 modular cooktop extractor system with two gas cooktops
and the BORA Tepan stainless steel grill, which fits perfectly
in the cold-rolled stainless steel worktops and the large,
brushed stainless steel island. The two BORA X BO steam
ovens round off the purist kitchen design with their matt-
black inlay frames. Furthermore, there is one station for
roasting, one for baking and one for cold cuisine as well as
a pass-through (an interface between the kitchen and service
teams in a restaurant) with heat lamps. Anyone who enjoys
a multi-course meal cooked up by Christin Wöhrwag can
count themselves lucky – and not just because of the
fantastic countryside views.
Bottom: the
purist design with
clear shapes runs
throughout the
living room and
kitchen.
Left: the building
houses the
winery’s bottle
warehouse and
the vintners’
home.
Right: flowing light and
an abundance of wood:
an oak wall coated with
chalkboard paint
separates the kitchen
from the living room.
Top: better than
television – the large
windows draw the
vineyards inside.
Bottom: Christin Wöhrwag uses
the BORA Professional 2.0 to
surprise her guests with
wonderfully refined meals.
The pale light of late afternoon floods the living room, grazing
the anthracite panelling and making shadows dance across
the oak features. The large windows along both sides are
perfect for following the course of the sun and watching the
seasons as they change, as though you were stood in the
middle of the vineyard: the leaves shimmer in lush green in
summer before turning beautiful shades of yellow, red and
orange in autumn. There are no pictures on the walls and no
brightly coloured interior design features to distract from
the spectacle. Designed using steel and an abundance of
glass, the spacious structure draws nature indoors, virtually
merging the building and vineyard into one.
When designing the building in cooperation with renowned
architect Thomas Hundt, Christin and Hans-Peter Wöhrwag
pictured clear shapes and an understated architectural piece
in Bauhaus style. The winegrowing couple are the sixth-
generation owners and managers of the family business
‘Weingut Wöhrwag’ in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim. In 2018, they
decided to partially relocate the company due to a lack of
space and started work on the new building in 2019. In
spring 2022, the L-shaped building – which serves as both
a warehouse for 200,000 wine bottles and the Wöhrwags’
home – was completed. And it is not just the surrounding area
that is wonderfully green: the house is self-sufficient in terms
of energy, fulfilling its needs through the use of PV systems,
deep and near-surface geothermal energy plus a heat pump.
All roof areas have been greenscaped, with the vineyard even
extending to the bottle warehouse’s roof and a bee meadow
blooming on the garage.
As a passionate amateur cook, Christin Wöhrwag felt it was
particularly important to have a practical kitchen. She also
Watch the video for more information
about the vision behind the kitchen
and the design process.
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