Case study · 2024

Sundown Bedhead

A young couple had just renovated a Rotterdam-Noord apartment and wanted the bedroom's west-facing wall to feel like a single, continuous sunset above the bed — no framed art, no panels you could 'count'.

Place: Rotterdam, NL
Scale: 600 discs
Lead: 3–5 business days

Client

Private residence · Rotterdam-Noord apartment

Discs: 600
Wall: 3.2 × 2.1 m
Studio time: 3 weeks
Install: 1 afternoon

The work

The challenge

Six hundred discs needed to read as one warm horizon, not a mosaic. The wall measures 3.2 by 2.1 metres and gets direct afternoon light through a single tall window, which meant any unevenness in tone or mounting would be picked up the moment the sun moved.

Our approach

We sourced 720 discs from a closing record shop in Charlois, polished the strongest 600, and grouped them into six tonal bands from deep crimson at the base to pale amber at the top. Each disc was printed individually so the gradient is real pigment, not a sticker overlay. The composition was modelled to the bed's exact dimensions, then split into nine birch backing panels that snap together with invisible cleats — so the install is one wall, not 600 little decisions.

The outcome

Installed in a single afternoon. At sunset the wall throws a soft amber wash onto the opposite ceiling — the room reads warmer by about two stops without any extra lighting.

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