Room 110 — after dark
The same wall, with the room turned off.
Wall 8 721 × 3 960 mm
Materials Patinated brass, wood, concealed LED
Drawing Room 110, February 2025 01 D-07 · D-08
Two blocks, and the wall between them Eight and a half metres, divided three ways: a brass block of 2 892 millimetres, an opening of 2 120 where the wood is left bare and the art hangs, and a second block of 2 376. Each block is drawn on its own, in its own set of radii, and the wave does not carry across the gap.
02 R 37 – R 889
A curve that never repeats This is not one profile stamped out and run along the wall. It is drawn once, arc by arc — twenty-two radii are called up between the two blocks, from 37 millimetres at the tightest to 889 at the widest — and no two bays come out the same width. Cut the panel through and you get the line below.
03 1 251 / 3 960
One line across eight metres The panels are made in two tiers and they meet exactly once, at 1 251 millimetres, with a three-millimetre gap. That joint follows the wave through every crest and every hollow without a break — and above and below it there is no other horizontal line on the whole wall.
04 Metal · Brass
Patinated, not polished What you touch is satin, patinated brass. Patinated rather than polished, which is why the room arrives on it as a long soft gradient down each crest instead of as a reflection of itself — and why eight metres of it reads as one surface rather than as a row of separate tubes.
05 40 mm
Forty millimetres, and only the faces are brass The node detail draws the panel as a sandwich forty millimetres deep: a thin brass face, a core, and a second brass face behind it. What the core is, the sheet does not say — it leaves the base structure to the manufacturer. So it stands here as one solid, and nothing more should be read into it.
06 Embedded details
Held from behind, and never seen Vertical plates are let into the wall at set-out positions marked on the plan, with reinforcement called up at some of them. None of it shows once the brass is on. Where they fall is drawn; how they are made is not, so they are simplified here.
07 Wood panels
The wall behind the wall The brass is not fixed to plaster. Behind it runs the same wood boiserie that lines the rest of the room and shows through the gap between the blocks — so the panels stand on a finished wall, and the light has something warm to land on.
08 LED profile
The light is part of the panel At the inner edge of each block the brass turns back on itself — R 347 on one, R 369 on the other — and in the hollow that makes, a profile is hidden. It faces the wood, not the room. Nothing in the elevation tells you it is there until the room goes dark.
09 Detail 4
Cut through the node In section it is three things: the brass, the core it is wrapped around, and the profile tucked in behind the return. The light never crosses the room — it runs along a surface. That is the whole of it, and it is forty millimetres deep.
Wall panels, plan D-07 · 2 892 2 120 D-08 · 2 376
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Daylight After dark
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