REX VINORUM

The programme

Six collections

The Gods of the Vine

Titian · Caravaggio · Velázquez

The Gods of the Vine

The museum wall of wine.

Bacchus and Ariadne, the god offering his glass, the crowning of a kneeling drinker at a laborers’ table — wine, power, and desire painted for dukes and kings. The gallery wall this house was built to hang.

3 pieces hanging

The Banquet

The Dutch Golden Age, four centuries early

The Banquet

The house’s founding argument.

Heda and Claesz’s rummers and silver, de Heem’s abundance — the pour, the spill, and the opulence, painted as the luxury photograph two centuries before the camera. Say so on this page: this collection is why the house exists.

3 pieces hanging

The Grape Portraits

Viala & Vermorel, Ampélographie, 1901–1910

The Grape Portraits

The tasting-room wall.

The varieties painted like nobility — leaf, cluster, and cane in chromolithograph, from the seven-volume monument of the vine. Every bottle has an ancestor portrait; here they are, sat for the sitting.

3 pieces hanging

The Vintage

The harvest across the centuries

The Vintage

The year turns on the harvest. It always did.

From the white château above the September grape harvest of the Très Riches Heures to Goya’s royal tapestry cartoons — the vintage as the year’s coronation, six centuries running.

2 pieces hanging

The Chart & The Cellar

1855 & the cartography of dirt

The Chart & The Cellar

Some lists outlive their ink.

The 1855 Bordeaux classification and pre-1931 vineyard cartography, reproduced as the historical documents they are — the most durable hierarchy in luxury, and the most lovingly mapped dirt on earth.

1 piece hanging

The Atelier Originals

The Pour · The Table · House Labels

The Atelier Originals

Every great house was invented once.

House originals from the shot library at regal grade: the candlelit ribbon of a pour, the Dutch banquet reborn in photography, and the gallery of invented House Labels — the art of the label as its own genre, honestly new. Edition-controlled, certificate-backed.

3 pieces hanging