African Design Magazine April 2015 | Page 50

Sitting in the middle of a prestigious vineyard, the Château La Dominique is on neighbourly terms with some of the most famous appellations in the world: Cheval Blanc, Petrus, Figeac, La Conseillante, l’Evangile... It clearly needed to mark its territory by bringing out and transforming a very special landscape. And so the idea was born of creating an object that would rise up out of the existing building – a big stone barn smack bang in the middle of the domaine – and would venture into the vines like a piece of land art, in a nod to the artist Anish Kapoor. 50 africandesignmagazine.com