A CreoGlass project
Emma Brambell – Peacock Feather Printed Glass Kitchen
Peacock-feather artwork developed across printed glass worktops, splashbacks and a scratch-resistant glass island as one continuous interior composition.
The brief
Peacock feathers across a bespoke kitchen.
Interior designer Emma Brambell approached CreoGlass with an ambitious idea: peacock-feather artwork flowing across the kitchen worktops, splashbacks and island as one continuous composition.
Emma visited the CreoGlass studio to discuss the concept, and the project immediately captured our imagination. We developed visual mock-ups to explore how the feathers could move through the room and how a two-dimensional image could become a three-dimensional architectural feature.
Artwork development
Planning the artwork across each panel.
This could not be treated as a collection of unrelated printed panels. The feather artwork needed to feel as though it travelled through the kitchen — across the rear worktops, vertically onto the splashbacks, around the L-shaped corners and onto the central island.
Every glass component therefore had to be considered as part of one larger composition. The position of each feather, its direction of travel and the transition between panels were planned before manufacture.
Because the feather strands are so fine, even a small misalignment at a junction could have broken the illusion.
Precision across three planes
Matching the pattern at every junction.
Most printed splashbacks are read primarily as a vertical surface. Here, the same artwork had to work across horizontal worktops, vertical splashbacks, the horizontal island and its vertical end return.
At every junction there was a decision to make: which panel should visually dominate, where should a feather appear to continue, and how would the thickness and refraction of the glass change what the eye sees at the edge?
The artwork therefore could not simply be divided digitally and sent to print. The finished three-dimensional object had to be considered from the beginning.
The finished kitchen
The finished kitchen.
The white cabinetry and minimal interior give the printed glass space to become the defining visual feature. The pale blue background keeps the room light, while the natural greens, blues and bronze tones of the feathers introduce movement and contrast.
The relationship continued
From the kitchen to the bathroom.
A project this unusual requires a high degree of trust between designer and specialist manufacturer. Following completion of the kitchen, Emma returned to CreoGlass for another element of the interior — bespoke shower glass.
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