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Southern Art Ceramic Design was the preferred contractor to manufacture the new ceramic entrance mural at the prestigious Oyster Box Hotel near Durban in Umhlanga KwaZulu Natal.
We have not received images of the final installation, but here is the image that we have received with the brief.
The brief from M2K Architecture was plain and short;… recreate the above tile mural to the following dimensions of 2650mm wide and 1840 mm high…and to fit precisely into an engineered steel frame at the entrance. This contract was successfully delivered after having received an extreme short deadline of 15 working days!
In ceramic terms, it means that one prepare for the worst, and backup tiles for the ceramic panel were produced at the same time as the final ceramic mural was in progress and reaching completion!
The next image shows just one aspect of the R&D prior to producing the final panel, and that is experimenting with different brushes to mimic the original paint techniques!
Besides the above, shrinkage tests, colour coordination, layouts & design, transfer of design, etc. etc. had to be done within the first few days … even before the contract was confirmed … as it would have been impossible to deliver a mural like this successfully if we had to wait for final confirmation!
Contracts like these that seem so simple in process are actually quite complex to execute within a tight deadline, and only professionals will appreciate this!
elza on 31 Jan 2010 at 3:06 pm #
My goodness, Gerrit, I’m no professional but I can appreciated that this was a very complex assignment especially within such a tight deadline and yet, again, you made a wonderful job of it!
The mimicking of the original painttechnique to me seems BETTER than the original! Simply beautiful, whoever did this.
Your mural also brought back memories of at least two holidays we spent back many years ago in the Oyster Box. It is so nice to know that it still exists and in future when we think of the lovely time we spent there it will always be with your mural in mind!