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hen developer Tony Giarratana first conceptualized the wine cellar space at his luxury downtown condo building, it was sleek and modern with a standing table down the middle. And it wasn’t right at all for a room meant to honor his mother, Carmen. Chicago-based designer Frank Ponterio had just finished the 57 Keys, a 100-year-old building in Chicago, and in one of the spaces he did a very small, private wine room. In it, Ponterio had to have someone reproduce an 18th century French table because he couldn’t find one as small as he needed. As it happened, the person who made his table had just sold an antique table to Tony and his wife, Lisa, and thought Ponterio’s small wine space could be a solution to the Giarratanas’ design struggle. They met at a bar and started tossing around ideas, and Carmen’s Wine Cellar began to come to life. “I literally, on a cocktail napkin, drew a sketch,” Ponterio says. “He said, ‘Great. Why don’t you come to Nashville next week?’” 58 | NASHVILLEINTERIORS.COM
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