A short-term showroom for SCP, the British furniture and design company, in Pimlico, London. Two rooms, two very different surfaces: a mural that fades from deep blue at the floor to white at the ceiling, and a gilded marbled wallcovering whose gold veining runs the length of the shop.
At a glance
- Client: SCP, for a short-term commercial showroom
- Where: Pimlico, London
- Year: 2019
- Our role: wallcovering and mural installation
- Photographs: September 2019, by the showroom’s photographer. The street seen through the shop window is blurred.
The blue room
A gradient mural has no pattern to hide a join. The colour shifts continuously from one edge of each panel to the other, so the panels have to be hung in order and butted exactly, or a step in the tone shows across the whole wall. We hung it so the blue deepens evenly to the floor on every wall, and the fade lines up from panel to panel around the room.
The marbled room
The other room is papered in a gilded marbled wallcovering: gold veining over pale grey, with a soft sheen that changes as you walk past.
The flush door. A full-height flush door in the wall was papered in with the rest of the wall, the pattern carried across its face and trimmed to its edges, so it almost disappears into the marbling.
Long, unbroken runs. The pattern runs the full length of the room to the shop window, matched drop by drop so the veining reads as one continuous surface.
The result
Two finished rooms ready for the showroom’s opening: a calm, deep blue backdrop for upholstery, and a lively gilded wall that catches the light from the street.
Photographs on this page
Photographs of the finished showroom by the showroom’s photographer, September 2019, used with Mr Wallcover’s records of the job.
