Jumeirah Carlton Tower | Mr Wallcover

Jumeirah Carlton Tower stands on Cadogan Place in Knightsbridge, above Sloane Street and the private Cadogan Gardens. We worked on the hotel’s renovation for eight months in 2020, installing wallcoverings, and finished at the end of 2020. The hotel reopened in 2021.

At a glance

Hotel: Jumeirah Carlton Tower, Cadogan Place, Knightsbridge, London
When: 2020, eight months, finished at the end of 2020
Role: wallcovering installation during the hotel’s renovation

The rooms

Jumeirah describes the renovated bedrooms and suites as light oak wall panelling with textured wallcoverings set into the panels, which soften the rooms and give them a more residential feel. Inset work of this kind leaves nowhere to hide: each panel is its own small wall, and every edge meets a moulding or a frame, so the cuts have to be clean and the texture has to run the same way in every panel of a room.

Photographs on this page

We have no photographs of our own from this job that are fit to publish. The photographs here are the hotel’s own: official photographs of the finished rooms and suites, published by Jumeirah on the hotel’s website. Each is credited “Photograph: Jumeirah Carlton Tower”. We did not take them, and they belong to Jumeirah; they are shown to illustrate the finished rooms.

Source for the dates: our Instagram post of 6 January 2021 (CJtvVheldiT): part of the project for 8 months, completed at the end of 2020. The description of the rooms is from Jumeirah’s own fact sheet for the hotel.

The same standards, on every commission.

Whether the client is a hotel group, a designer or a household, the job runs the same way. These are the parts a photograph never shows.

Survey and scope, room by room

We measure the wall that will actually be hung, allow for the repeat and the wastage, and write a scope of works room by room before anyone orders paper.

Preparation decides the finish

Walls are filled, made good and primed until they are true. If a wall is not ready for the material specified, we say so before the last drop is ordered.

Protection and containment

Floors, furniture and finished joinery are protected as part of the hang. Work is contained and the place is left tidy each evening. In a home we are visitors; in a hotel we work around the house.

Batch and shade control

Deliveries are checked against the measure, and batches and shading are managed so that a corridor of rooms reads as one surface.

Set out from the room's focal points

Pattern is set out from chimneypieces, doorcases and bed walls, so the design meets the cornice and the joinery with composure.

One team, then the return visit

The people who start are the people who finish. Four to six weeks after completion we come back to look at every seam and edge, and the workmanship is guaranteed for twelve months.