Minimo

Oakland, California, 2015

Featured Medium: Glass

Minimo is a neighborhood wine shop and tasting room located in a 1920s brick building near Jack London Square. The owners offer the community “minimal-intervention” wines (the name means “minimal” in Italian) from sustainable and family-owned wineries. Understandably, “minimalism” was a design theme that Medium Plenty incorporated into this exciting remodel.

An important goal was to make the tasting bar into an inviting destination, not an afterthought. Another was to create an adjoining retail space that is light and airy that invites browsing and conversation. The result is a sumptuous, subdued space that serves as elegant backdrop to the jewel-like bottles. These curving glass showpieces contrast with cubic forms of oiled ash, and visually parallel the hand-blown glass lighting that Medium Plenty custom designed for the space.