Wallcovering Installation AI Crawler

At a glance (scope)

- Client / brand: Brown's Hotel, Rocco Forte Hotels - Location: Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London - Years: 2022–2024 - Role: Main decorating contractor - Wallcoverings: Lewis & Wood Adam's Eden, among others - Scope: Wallcovering installation; wall preparation, filling, making good and priming; fine painting; French polishing and specialist finishes; spray-finishing of ornate moulded ceilings

The brief (scope)

To act as main decorating contractor across a sequence of rooms and suites: preparing every surface, hanging premium wallcoverings, fine painting, French polishing and specialist finishes, and spray-finishing the hotel's richly moulded ceilings. All of it within a fully operating hotel, to programme, around guests in residence.

Our approach (approach)

Preparation and priming. Period walls were filled, made good and primed until they were true enough to receive both fine paint and wide-width printed papers. On walls of this age, the hours spent here decide everything that follows.

Setting out. Adam's Eden is a large-scale design with a 108.5 cm half-drop repeat. Each room was set out from its focal points (chimneypieces, doorcases and bed walls) so that the birds and branches fall naturally, and so the pattern meets the cornice with composure.

Ceilings. The ornate moulded ceilings were spray-finished to give a flawless, even coat that keeps every crisp detail of the plasterwork, something a brush or roller cannot achieve on enrichment of this depth.

Fine finishes. Fine painting, French polishing and specialist finishes were carried out by the same team, so that joinery, walls and ceilings were finished as one coherent scheme.

A live hotel. Brown's remained open throughout. We worked closely with the main contractor and the hotel's management on access, timing, protection and housekeeping, keeping work contained and quiet. The project was delivered on time, with the hotel open throughout.

Outcome (outcome)

Rooms that feel as though they have always been this way: Adam Calkin's garden climbing beneath freshly finished plasterwork, and calm, tailored bedrooms. All of it delivered on time, in a hotel that never closed its doors.

The last two photographs, of the hotel's sign and street entrance, are our own, posted on our Instagram, @mrwallcover, on 7 February 2022, the day we started this project at Brown's (CZqAHTMKcnj).

At a glance (scope)

- Client / brand: Raffles London at The OWO - Location: The Old War Office, Whitehall, London - Years: 2020–2023 - Role: Wallcovering installation - Wallcoverings: a bespoke Vescom wallcovering made for the hotel; Vescom Alcantara in selected suites - Scope: Installation to bedrooms and several other areas, including walls and parts of the joinery

The brief (scope)

To install the hotel's wallcoverings in the bedrooms and several other areas: a bespoke Vescom wallcovering created for the hotel, and Vescom Alcantara in some of the suites, applied to walls and, in places, to joinery. The rooms, designed by the late Thierry Despont, call for a calm, light-filled backdrop to Edwardian proportions.

Our approach (approach)

Scope, room by room. Our method is to follow the survey with an estimate and a scope of works by room. Once agreed, that scope is the template for the job: openings come out of the measure, and pattern repeat and wastage go in.

Preparation and priming. Plain and finely textured wallcoverings forgive nothing. Every wall was prepared and primed to a true, even surface before installation, so that the light falling through tall Whitehall windows reveals texture, not substrate.

Setting out. Rooms were set out from their windows, doorcases and joinery, with seams planned to disappear in raking light. Where the wallcovering continued onto joinery, it was set out with the same discipline as the walls.

Seam and shade control. With a bespoke production run, consistency from roll to roll and room to room is paramount. Batches were checked and managed so that corridors of rooms read as one.

Coordination. Work was sequenced alongside the other trades and the main contractor within one of London's most complex heritage restorations.

Outcome (outcome)

Our team installed the wallcoverings for the bedrooms and several other areas of this remarkable building. Raffles notes that its rooms and suites feature customised carpets, fabrics and wallcoverings; it is a quiet satisfaction to have hung some of them.

At a glance (scope)

- Client / brand: Four Seasons Hotel London at Ten Trinity Square (renamed Four Seasons Hotel London at Tower Bridge in October 2024) - Location: 10 Trinity Square, Tower Hill, City of London - Years: 2016–2019 - Role: Guest room and suite wallpapering, and wallcoverings in the Four Seasons Private Residences - Wallcoverings: Phillip Jeffries Tweed; Omexco - Scope: Survey, wall preparation and priming, setting out, installation with full pattern and seam control - Photographs: our own, of finished private residences and residents' lift lobbies in the building, April and May 2019. We do not identify any residence: no flat or floor numbers, no owners, no views, and lift floor indicators and signs are blurred. Then our own photographs of the hotel's lift lobbies, corridors and wallcoverings, December 2017 to September 2019, first posted on our Instagram - Hotel wallcoverings, 2019: about 5,000 m², including Fromental silks, Dedar, Vescom, Tektura and Muraspec

The brief (scope)

To paper the guest rooms and suites: premium finishes, among them Phillip Jeffries' tailored Tweed, that had to sit comfortably beside restored heritage fabric, fine joinery and polished timber, and to read as one surface from the first room to the last.

Our approach (approach)

Survey. Every space was surveyed before a single roll was opened, so that substrates, junctions and sight lines were understood rather than discovered.

Preparation and priming. Walls were prepared and primed to suit each material. With textile wallcoverings the substrate is everything; any flaw beneath a tweed or woven surface will eventually show.

Setting out. Drops were planned around windows, doors and joinery so that seams fell where the eye would not look for them, and so that each run began and ended with intent.

Pattern and seam control. Natural textiles vary from roll to roll. Batches, shading and seams were checked continuously so that walls read as one continuous surface.

Coordination. Across the years on site the team worked hand in hand with the electricians, the French polishers and the main contractor, sequencing our work around second-fix electrics and polished joinery so that no trade compromised another. The team's organisation was as much a part of the finish as the craft itself.

Outcome (outcome)

Guest room and suite wallpapering from 2016 to 2019 on one of London's most significant hotel conversions, through the opening in 2017 and the rooms that followed. Quiet, tailored walls that let Sir Edwin Cooper's architecture take the applause.

At a glance (scope)

- Client: Trematon Castle - Location: Castle of Trematon, above the Lynher and Tamar near Saltash, Cornwall - Years: 2019–2022. Our own site photographs run from 24 April 2019 to 7 January 2022 - Role: Wallcovering installation across the house and estate - Wallcoverings: House of Hackney PLANTASIA, GAIA Prussian Blue, FLORA DELANICA, COSMOS, FLORA FANTASIA, ARTEMIS, HOLLYHOCKS, plus heritage Lincrusta relief - Scope: strip-out and wall preparation, lining, papered ceilings including the atrium ceiling around its oval lantern, large-scale mural setting-out, pattern-matched full-height drops in bedrooms, bathrooms and a powder room, and laser-aligned Lincrusta relief

The brief (scope)

To hang House of Hackney wallpapers across the Georgian house. That meant large-scale murals, densely drawn florals and ceiling-to-ceiling "print drenching", in a house where every wall is a little out of true and every ceiling a little out of level.

Our approach (approach)

Strip-out and preparation. Our photographs from 2019 and early 2020 show rooms taken back to bare plaster, old finishes scraped off and the atrium stripped and lined. Reinforced lining materials (Wallrock and Anaglypta cartons appear on site in June 2019) were used to give the hand-printed papers a true, stable ground.

Ceilings as a fifth wall. Several rooms were papered overhead. That includes the skylit atrium, where the print had to be cut around a decorative oval lantern and a chandelier rose, and the small box room, papered on all four walls and the ceiling.

Murals and setting-out. PLANTASIA is a panoramic forest landscape that does not forgive an error. Each drop was set out to plan, and photographs from June 2020 show the crew working on ladders across the full height of the room.

Pattern and seam control. Digitally printed papers in deep, saturated colours were batch-checked from the roll labels, and pattern matches were carried across corners, chimney breasts and door heads.

Heritage relief. In November 2021 the team installed Lincrusta, the embossed heritage wallcovering made since 1877. Panels were laid out on the table, then hung to a laser line for perfect vertical alignment.

Living house, long programme. The work ran in phases between 2019 and 2022, around a family home, a working estate and a house that was opening its doors to guests.

Outcome (outcome)

A Georgian house within a Norman castle, dressed wall by wall and ceiling by ceiling in the prints of the brand that lives there, across nearly three years of phased work. For a wallcovering contractor there are few sterner tests than hanging a designer's own paper in the designer's own home.

At a glance (scope)

- Building: 15 Old Bailey, City of London. Grade II listed, completed 1874 - Opened: 2 September 2024 as Hyde London City - Duration: about two years on site (our photographs run from a sample room in November 2022 to final touches in August 2024) - Rooms: 111 guest rooms across seven storeys - Interior design: Studio Moren - Our package: full decoration, specialist wallcoverings and window film - Wallcoverings: Timorous Beasties Tropical Clouded Leopard and Totem Damask (custom-printed vinyl), and House of Hackney LIMERENCE - Window film: Solar Screen

The brief (scope)

One team, one standard, from the first sample room to handover: the complete decorating package for 111 guest rooms across seven storeys and the circulation spaces, the specialist wallcoverings that give each room its character, and the window film to the glazing.

Our approach (approach)

Sample room first. Our record starts in November 2022 with a finished sample room: Timorous Beasties' Tropical Clouded Leopard set behind the bed as a shaped headboard panel. Agreeing the finish, the setting out and the detailing in one room first meant that the next 110 could be repeated with confidence.

Preparation. A building of this age moves and varies from room to room. New and old surfaces were filled, made good and primed so that the paint and wallcoverings sit on a sound, even base. Our photographs show walls taken back to a smooth finish before a single drop was hung.

Setting out large-scale pattern. Tropical Clouded Leopard is a large-scale, quarter-drop design. Hung as a shaped panel behind each bed, its placement has to be judged room by room so the composition sits centrally and reads as intended. Totem Damask runs differently: a single ten-metre repeat with no horizontal match, so every drop has to be chosen by eye to keep a feature wall balanced.

The suite. In the suite, House of Hackney's LIMERENCE in the Galapagos colourway wraps the room in lush, painterly palms, including the bedroom and the dressing area. It is supplied as four 45 cm panels per roll, so the panels had to be hung in sequence and aligned precisely around joinery and windows.

Window film. Alongside the decoration, we fitted Solar Screen window film to the glazing. See our window film service.

Decoration throughout. The decorating package ran through corridors, stair cores and rooms: deep greens and warm terracottas in the circulation spaces, crisp finishes to the panelling, and careful cutting-in around period mouldings, balustrades and the timber handrail of the main stair.

Outcome (outcome)

On 2 September 2024 the first hotel in London to be lit by electricity reopened as a hotel, 150 years after it was built. Guests walk into bedrooms dressed in Timorous Beasties' leopards and kaleidoscopic damasks, a suite wrapped in House of Hackney palms, and corridors and stairs finished to match, all of it delivered by our team.

At a glance (scope)

- Hotel: DoubleTree by Hilton London – West End - Address: 92 Southampton Row, Holborn - Years on site: main works in 2019 - Scope: guest room wallcoverings; in 2019, levels 5 and 6, 30 rooms and their corridors, while the hotel stayed open on the other floors - Formerly: the Bonnington Hotel

The work (scope)

The commission was the guest rooms. Pattern, batch and the order of rooms were agreed before the first length was cut, so a repeated room could stay consistent down a corridor.

In July 2019 we completed levels 5 and 6: 30 Premium and Deluxe rooms and their corridors. The hardest part was working in a hotel that was still open, with guests on the other floors. We first worked here in December 2017, hanging Tektura wide vinyl.

The first photographs on this page show the Southampton Row building from the street, before and after it took the DoubleTree name. They show the building, not the finished rooms. The rest are our own photographs of the finished rooms and corridors.

At a glance (scope)

- Hotel: DoubleTree by Hilton London – Victoria - Address: 2 Bridge Place, Victoria - Years on site: March to September 2023 - Scope: guest room wallcoverings

The work (scope)

The rooms were hung while the hotel stayed in use. Access, protection and the order of floors were agreed so a finished room could be handed back without the next room waiting on a guess.

At a glance (scope)

- Hotel now: The Biltmore Mayfair, LXR Hotels & Resorts - Hotel then: Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square - Address: 44 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair - Years on site: February to November 2018 - Scope: a guest-room wallcovering programme of more than 15,000 m², on a schedule that included Phillip Jeffries

The work (scope)

The papers were hung to the schedule for that building, with the repeat and the set-out taken from the supplied drawings rather than from a generic roll count. Phillip Jeffries is named because it was on that schedule. That is not a claim to be a stockist or a manufacturer-approved installer.

At a glance (scope)

- Client: House of Hackney - Address: St Michael's Clergy House, Mark Street, Shoreditch EC2A 4ER - Survey: October 2021 - Works: January to March 2022, before the public opening on 26 March 2022. Cloakrooms in May 2022 - Scope: preparation and making good, decorating, and hanging House of Hackney's own wallpapers in the concept rooms, the bedroom set and the tiled cloakrooms

The work (scope)

St Michael's Clergy House dates from 1856. The brief was the interior of the new flagship: make the rooms good, decorate them, and hang the brand's own wallpapers so the concept rooms, the bedroom and the cloakrooms could open to the public.

The survey was in October 2021. Making good and decorating ran from January 2022, and the rooms were dressed before the opening on 26 March 2022. The tiled cloakrooms were finished in May 2022.

Pattern names are not stated here. The papers are House of Hackney's own, hung through the rooms as specified for the showroom. This commission was internal works only.

The finished-room photographs marked "Photography: House of Hackney" are House of Hackney's own, from their website. The others were taken on site by us; the two marked "Before" show rooms as found, before the works began.

The last seven photographs are from an earlier job for the same client: House of Hackney's previous showroom in Shoreditch, which we worked on in 2019. They are our own photographs, posted on our Instagram, @mrwallcover, on 19 August 2019, and each is captioned as the earlier showroom. They are not St Michael's Clergy House.

At a glance (scope)

- Client: Penny Morrison, at The Fabric Collective - Address: 9 Langton Street, Chelsea, London SW10 - Internal works: December 2023 to January 2024 - Exterior: April to May 2024 - Scope: all the internal works plus the full exterior

At a glance (scope)

- Building: a stucco townhouse of flats on St George's Square, Pimlico - Survey: June 2024 - Works: July to November 2024. The scaffold was struck in late November 2024 - Scope: full front and rear exterior. Scaffolding supplied and managed by the practice

The work (scope)

The survey was in June 2024. Works ran from July to November 2024, and the scaffold came down in late November.

The scaffold for the front and the rear was supplied and managed by the practice. Repairs took in the cornice, the pediment and the portico, where cracks were made good, and the parapet. Masonry and render were painted in a Dulux Trade system. Sills and entrance joinery, the columns, the balustrade and the railings were finished with the elevation.

A private residential building, named here by street only.

At a glance (scope)

- Building: a Victorian stucco terrace of flats on Inverness Terrace, Bayswater - Years on site: June to September 2018, with the main push in September, and return visits in October and December 2018 - Scope: full scaffolded exterior, front and rear - Building type: private residential, named by street only

The work (scope)

A private residential building, named here by street only.

The exterior was scaffolded front and rear. Stucco and render were repaired, including cornices, ornamental capitals and architraves. Balconies and the portico, the windows, and the rear brickwork were all in the same scope. The finished scheme is a Dulux Trade off-white.

The main run was June to September 2018, busiest in September, with returns in October and December 2018.

At a glance (scope)

- House: a Grade II-listed Georgian house in North London - Room: a guest bedroom with beams, a built-in writing desk and old, sloping floors - Scheme: House of Hackney's design consultancy - When: April 2019 - Wallpaper: House of Hackney BAMBUSA, Midnight - Our role: wallpaper installation

Our work (approach)

Our team hung the BAMBUSA wallpaper. A room like this is unforgiving to paper:

- No straight lines. In an old house, walls lean, floors slope and beams cut across the wall at odd angles. The bamboo stems are strong verticals, so each drop was set out with care to a laser level. The plumb line is the traditional method; the laser gives the same true vertical across the whole room at once, sloping floor and all. That way the forest reads as upright, even though the room around it is not. - Working around period joinery. The paper is cut around the beams, the fireplace, the built-in desk and the shelving, then finished tight to the dark-blue paintwork. - Matching the drama. Midnight is a deep ground. Joins have to be precise and edges clean, because any gap or lifted seam shows against the dark colour.

Our photographs from April 2019 show the room complete: BAMBUSA on every wall, the four-poster dressed, and SERPENTIS overhead.

At a glance (scope)

- In partnership with: Calico Wallpaper, Brooklyn - Designer: Priya Ahluwalia (Ahluwalia) - Event: Ahluwalia Spring/Summer 2027, Revel, at London Fashion Week, launched alongside London Design Festival 2026 - Venue: Rosewood London - Installed: 18 September 2026, the day before the show - Product: Estuary, a bespoke Calico Wallpaper mural

The brief (scope)

Install the Estuary mural as the show backdrop within the production schedule, with the show the following day. The work had to be finished, clean and camera-ready in a working hotel event space that was being built around us.

Our approach (approach)

- Preparation first. The backdrop surfaces were prepared and sanded before hanging, so that a mural this soft and luminous would read without a flaw under show lighting. - Panel sequencing. A mural is a single image split across panels. Each one was hung in order and matched edge to edge so that the watercolour washes flow unbroken across the wall. - Working to the clock. We worked alongside the show production crew and finished on the evening of 18 September, ready for the runway the next day.

Outcome (outcome)

On 19 September 2026 Ahluwalia showed Revel in front of Estuary, and the collection launched worldwide on Calico Wallpaper's site the same week.

Launch dinner panels for Calico (scope)

At a glance

- In partnership with: Calico Wallpaper, Brooklyn - Event: the London launch dinner for Estuary by Ahluwalia, London Design Festival 2026 - Where the dinner was held: NoMad London, Covent Garden - Our work: the freestanding panels were papered in a workshop, not at the hotel - When: panels hung 14 September 2026, ahead of the dinner

The project

This was an event install for Calico Wallpaper, not a hotel fit-out. Calico hosted a dinner at NoMad London. The backdrop was a pair of temporary walls built off site. We papered the Estuary panels on those flats in the workshop and they were delivered finished. We did not hang them at the hotel.

Our approach

- Workshop installation: papering on the flat, in controlled conditions, gives cleaner edges than hanging in a room that is about to host a dinner. - Edges and returns: for freestanding panels the edges show from every angle, so the paper was wrapped and finished to look like a solid surface.

Links

- Estuary collection - Wallpaper*, LDF 2026 live: "Calico Wallpaper launches Estuary" (dinner at NoMad) - Calico press release

At a glance (scope)

- In partnership with: Calico Wallpaper, Brooklyn - Exhibitor: BEVERLY 1975 (Beverly Nguyen), launching CONCIERGE, its travelling retail concept - Event: Brompton Design District, London Design Festival 2026, 12–20 September - Venue: The Lavery, Cromwell Place, South Kensington - Installed: 8 September 2026, one day on site - Product: Cadence by Athena Calderone, in Oxblood

Our approach (approach)

- Prepared for a perfect finish. Cadence's quiet, layered texture shows every imperfection in the wall beneath, so preparation came first. - Seams that disappear. With a tonal, painterly ground there is no motif to hide a join in. Every seam was butted and rolled to vanish. - One day, ready for styling. The wall was finished in a single day, leaving the space clear for the BEVERLY team to style before the opening.

At a glance (scope)

- In partnership with: Calico Wallpaper, Brooklyn, with Lee Broom - Event: London Design Festival 2025, Trio of Design, Lee Broom's Shoreditch flagship, 16–21 September 2025 - Collection: Overture, Lee Broom's first-ever wallpaper (installed design: Matinee) - Our work: - survey and measurements for Calico's layout - wall preparation - installation of the mural across a side wall and a back wall with a concealed door - wallpapered theatrical flats for Calico's LDF dinner - Dates: surveyed July 2025; installed 9 September 2025

Our approach (approach)

- Measured for a bespoke layout. We surveyed the room in July 2025 and supplied the dimensions from which Calico drew the panel layout. Overture is made to measure, so the folds of the curtain fall exactly where the room needs them. - Wall preparation. The showroom walls were filled and sanded smooth. A drapery illusion only works if no real-world bump or ripple breaks the painted folds. - Large-format panels, double cut. Calico's fibre panels, about 68 cm wide, are hung with a bleed and double cut on the wall. That gives invisible seams through the soft gradients of the folds. - Hiding the door. On the back wall the curtain runs straight across a flush door. The pattern is carried over it so that the door disappears into the drape.

The dinner flats (scope)

For Calico's London Design Festival dinner the same September, we also papered freestanding theatrical flats in a set builder's workshop on 15 September 2025, ready to be moved into the dining venue.

Outcome (outcome)

From 16 to 21 September 2025, visitors to Shoreditch Design Triangle walked into a room that appeared to be draped in theatre curtains.

At a glance (scope)

- Client / brand: Hilton Garden Inn Silverstone (Hilton) - Location: Hamilton Straight, Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire - Role: Main wallcoverings contractor - Scope: Wallcovering installation

The brief (scope)

To act as main wallcoverings contractor on a new-build, 197-room hotel due to open in time for the British Grand Prix, where a consistent, crisp finish has to repeat room after room and floor after floor.

Our approach (approach)

Preparation and priming. New-build walls bring their own challenges. Surfaces were prepared and primed so that every room offered the same sound, even base, which is the foundation of consistency at scale.

Setting out. In a hotel built from repeated room types, setting out becomes a system. Each layout was established so that seams fell consistently in the same discreet positions around headboards, joinery and windows.

Consistency at scale. Batches and shading were managed across the full run of rooms so that a guest moving between floors would never notice a difference. In a building of this kind, quality is measured less by any single wall than by the hundredth room matching the first.

Coordination. As main wallcoverings contractor we sequenced our work with the main contractor and the other trades, so that rooms could be handed over cleanly.

Outcome (outcome)

A trackside hotel that opened in time for the 2022 British Grand Prix, its rooms finished to one consistent standard. Wallcovering on this scale is rarely noticed when it is done well, and that is precisely the point.

At a glance (scope)

- Hotel: Pendley Manor Hotel, Tring, Hertfordshire - When: December 2019 to January 2020 - Scope: 30 guest rooms in 30 days - Ceilings: Anaglypta relief paper - Walls: lined throughout, then twenty different wallpapers, including Cole & Son Petroushka velvet flock in several colourways

At a glance (scope)

- Hotel: Hilton London Metropole, Paddington - When: September to November 2019 - Scope: wallcoverings, including the wall panels of a conference room - Wallcoverings: Muraspec (jet black), Vescom

At a glance (scope)

- Hotel: Novotel London Canary Wharf - When: 2016 (photographed in January 2022) - Scope: wallcovering installation - Finishes seen here: concrete-effect and timber-grain wallcoverings

At a glance (scope)

- Client: Huntsman, Savile Row - Where: 11 Savile Row, Mayfair, London - When: April 2018 to March 2019 - Scope: installation of a bespoke printed wallpaper, and display boards covered in the same print - Wallcovering: a bespoke print of the Huntsman tweed

At a glance (scope)

- Where: a Mercedes-AMG showroom in London - When: September 2019 - Scope: supply and installation of black matt wallcoverings - Wallcovering: Muraspec, black matt - Detail: brushed stainless-steel trims around the doors and above the skirtings

At a glance (scope)

- Client: Everyman cinema, Liverpool - Where: Metquarter, Victoria Street, Liverpool - When: October to December 2018 - Scope: installation of bespoke large-format digital prints - Wallcovering: Muraspec digital print, extra-wide - Imagery: black-and-white film stills and colour street scenes

At a glance (scope)

- 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

At a glance (scope)

- Where: Masterpiece London 2019, Royal Hospital Chelsea - When: June 2019 - Scope: installation of a bespoke hand-crafted wallcovering on an exhibition stand - Set-out: laser levels

At a glance (scope)

- Designer: Jaillon Studio (Catherine Jaillon), Paris and London - Where: a private residence in Little Venice, London - When: July 2019 - Scope: wallpaper installation - Wallpaper: House of Hackney

At a glance (scope)

- 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

At a glance (scope)

- For: a luxury fashion house's relocated store at London Heathrow, Terminal 4 - Where: airside, in the departures retail area beyond security - When: the night of 24–25 September 2018; the finished walls were photographed between 02:30 and 03:42 - Product: a bespoke Calico Wallpaper mural. It is a non-repeating, painterly landscape, printed to the store's exact wall sizes and wrapped continuously around the corners. - Our role: specialist installation of the Calico panels

Working airside, in a live terminal (approach)

Airport retail is one of the most tightly controlled places we work. What that means in practice:

- Security first. Airside work means vetted operatives with airside passes. Tools and materials are checked through security and accounted for on site. Deliveries follow the airport's logistics and escort procedures. - Overnight working. In a terminal that never fully closes, the fit-out has to fit around passenger flows. Our photographs of the finished walls were taken between 02:30 and 03:42, with the gate lounges outside empty. - Clean, contained and quiet. We work inside the hoarding, with protected floors and nothing left outside the unit, so the concourse is ready for the first departures.

Our approach (approach)

- Panel order decides the picture. We checked and sequenced the panels so the horizon runs level across the whole store. - The landscape turns the corner without a break. The mural wraps continuously around internal corners, so the landscape never stops at a wall edge. - Clean lines for the fit-out. The mural meets a lit cove at the top and the joinery at the base. We left it finished around the services, ready for the shop-fitters' fixtures and lighting.

Of these, the overnight working is what our timestamped photographs record for this job. The security and containment points describe what airside work at Heathrow requires in general.

At a glance (scope)

- Where: a prime residence in central London - The detail: the curved external edge of a wallcovered arch - The difficulty: an arch, and an arch edge, that were not true - The method: survey, a specialist external-corner profile ordered for the job, bent to the arch, fixed, and the paper scribed into its return - Photographed: May 2019 - Our role: wallcovering installation and the edge detail - Photographs: the finished arch first, then finished rooms and details in the same residence. We do not name the home or its owner, and window views and personal items are blurred.

At a glance (scope)

- 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.

At a glance (scope)

- Designer: Jaillon Studio, Paris - Where: a tea house in West London - Year: 2021 - Our role: wallpaper and scenic mural installation - Photographs: July 2021, the finished feather-wallpaper room first. A reflection and a passer-by outside are blurred.