Cover It Up was working for Detail, who specialise in providing high end facilities to prestigious sporting events. The venue, run by event hospitality specialists Keith Prowse for the duration of the Wimbledon Fortnight, was a 400 - 600 capacity glass fronted De Boer structure that was located in the grounds of the adjacent Wimbledon Cricket and Golf Club.
The themed colours were spacious white, cool green and effervescent yellow. With the aid of flexible drape rig configurations, the room could also be sub-divided into different areas and tailored exactly to individual group booking requirements.
Cover It Up decked the space out using over 2000m of white trevira fabric, a myriad of voiles, plus other materials like white string curtains some of which were rigged on tab tracks for closing off the areas and changing the shape of the space, or for creating more private dining booths.
The project was managed for CIU by Elliot Stennett, who worked closely with the interior designer. Stennett comments, "It was our first time working with Detail, and it was great to have such a creative brief and see it all come alive with outstanding results."
The private dining areas were separated by 6m drops of string curtain and their back walls were made out of stretched white trevira which was back lit with colour changing LED lighting.
The project also included a large light-box ceiling centrepiece in the middle of the room, consisting of a 35mlong 3m wide frame manufactured in Germany, with eye-catching 'mobiles' made from hand-blown green glass tiles hanging down at 2m intervals.
(Jim Evans)
