Marking the 10th anniversary of Casa Cavia, the new spaces – wine cellar, and private tasting room – are an extension of Kallos Turin’s thoughtful renovation of the historic Buenos Aires house. Discover more.
Wine Cellar and Private Tasting Room for Buenos Aires’ Cultural Destination – Casa Cavia
Kallos Turin, an international architecture and interior design firm, announced the completion of a newly designed wine cellar and private tasting room for Buenos Aires’ cultural destination, Casa Cavia.
Casa Cavia is a historic house facing Alemania Square in the Palermo Chico (Little Palermo) district of Buenos Aires. The original building, designed in the 1920s by the distinguished architect Alejandro Christophersen, remains a poetic reminder of the elegant residences that once populated this historic square.
Ten years ago, Kallos Turin was commissioned to renovate the historic building, including a café, perfumery, flower shop, courtyard garden, and publishing offices. Over the past decade, under the leadership of the property’s Creative Director, Lupe Garcia, Casa Cavia has become a primary cultural destination in the city, and the architecture and design firm has updated and renovated the spaces to evolve alongside her vision.
Marking Casa Cavia’s 10th anniversary this year, Lupe Garcia saw an opportunity to highlight the family’s long history with wine collecting and now with winemaking. Kallos Turin has developed the first floor to include a wine cellar and private tasting room, called El Privado. The new spaces continue the architecture and design firm’s ongoing design concept for Casa Cavia – to restore the 1920s house by retaining original details and carefully inserting modern design elements. This time, the focus was on creating spaces for joyful gatherings centered on wine and viticulture.
The Wine Cellar
The cellar is designed in a dark burgundy to create a more intimate and private setting. A central table seats 10 people and was custom-made from salmon-colored resin with chairs by local designer, Ries Estudio. The cellar is wrapped in wine and has more than eighty national and imported labels. At the local level, the wine collection is concentrated on outstanding vintages – from award-winning wines to special editions.
El Privado
By contrast, El Privado is a larger, lighter, space filled with shelving and books, designed to encourage longer meals and discussions. The table is also made from resin, but this time in a burgundy to relate to the burgundy walls in the adjacent cellar.
Speaking on the renovation of Christophersen’s original building, Kallos Turin co-founder Stephania Kallos describes the firm’s experience working with the building’s intelligent and elegant original proportions, plan, and details:
“When you work on a building of this caliber, you learn from its original architect and you hope to take some of what you learned into your next projects. We were also inspired by the idea of this small, graceful building having held its place on a block that has otherwise been completely developed – in its small elegant way, it is a very powerful force on the street. We think this is a lovely metaphor for the strength of the programming the house now contains”.
Stephania Kallos
About Casa Cavia
Lupe García’s creative vision for Casa Cavia is based on finding new talents and making them hosts of the house. In this way, the house still holds a family, as it originally did, but one made of a unique group of talented purveyors. La Cocina is run by Julieta Caruso, who spent nine years at the acclaimed Spanish restaurant Mugaritz. She leads the kitchen team and creates Casa Cavia menus. She is known for her multidisciplinary approach to food, which draws an array of artistic disciplines from cinema and music, to literature and theatre.
Flavia Arroyo heads the bar program with the same multidisciplinary style. Delvis Huk heads the wine program and winemaker, Andrés Vignoni is responsible for incorporating international labels. Camila Gassiebayle brings her unique and inventive approach to florals through the Blumm Flower Co.
About Kallos Turin
Established in 2003 by Stephania Kallos and Abigail Turin, Kallos Turin is an international architecture and interior design firm based in London and San Francisco. Having first met when working for David Chipperfield Architects, Stephania and Abigail have collaborated across the Atlantic for over two decades, working on residential, commercial, office, restaurant, and retail projects – around the world. Stephania leads the firm’s London office and Abby spearheads the practice in San Francisco.
The firm’s work is now recognized globally. Kallos Turin has been awarded the prestigious International Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects for designing the Villalagos Residences in Uruguay.
Kallos Turin Press / Camron Public Relations
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