It felt to us that Braque could work in a similar way to ‘dazzle ships’. But not only could the abstract, interrupting forms make it difficult to establish the room’s complex architectural lines – rendering them more palatable – they would bring a colourful, organic, creative feeling too, an essential part of the brief and something that was sorely lacking in that cold, convoluted space.

As is the way with all our hand-painted wallcoverings, we tailored the individual elements of our Braque design specifically to the room – which wasn’t without its challenges. “The pelmet areas were very strange and quite tricky to negotiate,” remembers Fromental co-founder Tim. “You can see in the photographs: the wall juts out then recedes abruptly. Once the wallpaper was installed, this would have a foreshortening effect on the shapes, distorting them. We didn’t want this to create an imbalance with the rest of the scheme.” Tim’s solution was to elongate the geometric shapes, so they would still ‘read’ once integrated into the room.

This and every other tiny detail of the design layout was meticulously planned very early on in the project to avoid any nasty surprises further down the line. “A lot of hard work goes into the preparations for an installation like this,” says Tim, “but we always want our sweat and toil to be utterly invisible in the finished work. It needs to feel harmonious and balanced – effortless.”

The hard work paid off. This cold, architecturally strange, domineering space was transformed into a vibrant yet comfortable artist’s studio. We were delighted with the results.