Established in 1995 as one of the very first Black- and women-owned wineries in Northern California, Brown Napa Valley, maybe best understood for its Brown Estate label, has now opened a hybrid office and multipurpose hospitality location in downtown Napa. The San Francisco– based studio Catherine Kwong Design was commissioned for this project. (It formerly managed the style of Brown Napa Valley’s first hospitality space down the street.) The objective was to cohere the brand name’s main office with a new intimate tasting room and to do so with a domestic touch.
The savvy result demonstrates how these unique programs– workplace and tasting space– can be successfully combined together. Kwong layered together discrete zones, each segmented off with half walls lined with translucent glass panels. To break down the scale of the 30-foot-tall space, she presented a graphic wallcovering to specify dining and tasting locations. A constant product and color combination of muted blue plaster walls and blackened steel trim plays well with light-toned wooden home furnishings and tall drapes. Custom counters and built-in banquette seating boosts the comfy arrangement.
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