Bespoke digital wallcoverings in a fine-line geometric design for Oxygen Freejumping at The O2, joined by overlap and splice so the lines run unbroken.
At a glance
Client
Oxygen Freejumping
Designer
–Not recorded
Main contractor
–Not recorded
Maker and paper
Muraspec (digital print, wide vinyl)
Area or rooms
–Not recorded
Scope
Installation of bespoke digital wallcoverings
Year
2018
In September 2018 we installed bespoke digital wallcoverings for Oxygen Freejumping at The O2 in Greenwich: a fine-line geometric design printed by Muraspec on wide vinyl, running along the seating areas and corridors.
At a glance
Where: Oxygen Freejumping, The O2, Greenwich
When: September 2018
Scope: installation of bespoke digital wallcoverings
Wallcovering: Muraspec digital print on wide vinyl
Joint: overlap and splice
Overlap and splice
Wide vinyl is hung with the edges overlapped, then cut through both layers at once and the offcuts removed, so the two edges meet exactly. On a design of fine white lines on a dark ground, that is the only way to keep each line continuous across the joint.
Photographs on this page
Our own photographs, first posted on our Instagram, @mrwallcover, on 22 September 2018 (BoCE7LPnvqA).
Photographs
How the commission ran
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.
01
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.
02
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.
03
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.
04
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.
05
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.
06
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.
