Horizontal Bottle Rails as a Display Frame
Bottles held on horizontal rails instead of cradles, so the display reads as a grid of single bottles rather than as a wall of storage.
What the photographs show
Rows of single bottles lying on horizontal rails with open space between them, a framed panel rather than a shelved cabinet. The bottles are evenly spaced, and the gaps are as deliberate as the bottles.
What the build had to solve
A rail display holds fewer bottles per square metre than a cradle wall, and that is the trade: it is a display, not a cellar. Each rail carries a stop at both ends so a bottle cannot slide, and the pitch is set so a magnum can replace two standard bottles without redrawing the rail.
What to copy, and what to avoid
Worth copying: a stop at both ends of every rail. Worth avoiding: fitting rails where the wall gets direct sun — the bottle necks are what catch it.
- Rails
- Horizontal, end stops both sides
- Pitch
- Standard bottle, magnum takes two
- Display
- Single bottles, spaced deliberately
- Frame
- Stainless, 18 mm sightline
- Density
- Lower than a cradle wall by design
- Production
- 30 to 40 days, quoted per project
Frame 18 mm · glass panes up to 2,400 mm · scribe 40 mm · door reveal 3 mm · lead time 30 to 40 days, quoted per project · crated to a numbered setting-out drawing
The same scene, frame by frame
Photographs from our project archive, grouped by room type rather than by client. No client and no address is named on these pages.
What clients ask about a room like this one
Why choose rails over cradles?
Rails show the label and space the bottles. Cradles store more in the same wall. A hotel lobby wants rails; a cellar wants cradles, and some clients use one of each.
Do the bottles stay put?
They do once the end stops are fitted and the bottle shapes match the pitch. Mixed shapes are why we ask for the actual bottles you buy.
A room like this one, to your dimensions
Send three photographs of the wall and the bottle count. What comes back is a scheme, a drawing and a fixed price.