Hello AT,
Can anybody give me tips on how I can make a headboard like those designed by Philip Starck for the Paramount Hotel.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks, Brian
Wow, this is a tough question! We haven't seen the headboards at the Paramount in person, but it looks as if they are framed images which are silkscreened on a hard backing (so it says).
If you want high tech, options we can think of include:
- Professional large scale photo printing - Call Spectra for info
- Local poster printers who can silkscreen:
- Glaowen Poster & Printing - 445 5th Ave, New York, 10016 - (212) 447-0159
- Poster Printers The - 1607 McDonald Ave, Brooklyn, 11230 - (718) 375-3113
- R & C Poster Print - 294 Leonia Ave, Bogota, NJ 07603 - (201) 342-4111
- Glaowen Poster & Printing - 445 5th Ave, New York, 10016 - (212) 447-0159
None of this is perfect, we realize, so we hope some others have better answers. (Thanks, Brian!) MGR
MGR is right about the framing being expensive, if you tackle it as traditional framing. I'd be more inclined, for this application, to consider composite crown molding (polyurethane, maybe?) to give you the heft and to keep it light weight. That, a niter box and some paint finishing should give you a close approximation. You could also consider wall-mounting the molding around the image blow-up, rather than leaning it.
"Miter" box. Sorry.
I've been thinking about using Rasterbator on iron-on transfer paper and then ironing the image tile-by-tile onto unprimed canvas. Haven't done it yet but I have iron oned type onto scrapbook covers (paper and canvas) so I assume that ironing Rastorbator tiles wouldn't be that much different.
Thoughts?
Also, there are many printers in SoHo who print onto canvas. Kinkos even does it. (They also print onto vinyl tarp.) If you trust the average Kinko's employee (I don't but maybe you have had better experience) maybe Kinko's wouldn't be a bad idea.
Hey, have been to the paramount numerous times and can tell you that the images are printed on fabric, then wrapped around foam, maybe the foam is about 2-3 inches thick, seems to be slightly shaped so that it slopes at the edges,then the images are framed...that is my best guess as to how its done.
hey, you could print from your rasterbator docs onto iron-on paper and iron them onto plain white cotton (or a color, for that matter) also!
Ask the hotel, the original way they did it might not be crazy expesive, and that printer might even have the images archived.
A friend of mine liked some advertising signs made for a farm market, she called the market, they gave her the name of the printer who then ran off a huge copy of the poster for her for about $300.
On March 26 i saw several of these in an "antique' store off of Bruckner Ave. in the Bronx. The guy was asking $600 or $650, I can't remember which. My husband asked if they came from a hotel and the guy said they did.