Front Hall of The Goring, London

We created a statement scenic wallcovering for the Front Hall of the The Goring as part of the luxury Belgravia hotel’s comprehensive renovation, designed together with interior designer Russell Sage and fourth generation family member Jeremy Goring.

Classical, idiosyncratic and quintessentially British, Fromental’s scenic portrays an Arcadian landscape enlivened with an anthropomorphised menagerie of wild and exotic beasts, some of which represent members of the Goring family past and present. Entertaining portrayals include Goring founder OR with second in line OG as walruses in bejewelled splendour; the family’s favourite pet pigs engaged in the Battle of Trafalgar, as well as legally trained Goring MD David Morgan-Hewitt as a gorilla in a judge’s wig.

Reminiscent of the grand, French 19^th century block-printed papers, the wallcovering is painted on hand-gilded silver leaf on paper, taking four artists around eight weeks to produce.