Grasscloth for a Pacific Coast hotel lobby
A 380 m² grasscloth install across lobby and corridor — custom-matched for a North American distributor supplying a Pacific Coast hotel.
The distributor's design team selected GC-204 after reviewing twelve samples over two site visits. The warm ochre base and open seagrass weave read well under the property's mixed ambient and tungsten lighting — a combination that kills most natural fiber colorways. Scale mattered here: at 380 m², consistent batch integrity was non-negotiable.
We produced the full run in a single production window, shipping two weeks ahead of the install schedule to allow acclimation time. The hotel's millwork contractor had worked with natural wallcovering before, which reduced install risk considerably. Seam management in the double-height lobby section required extra staging time but landed cleanly.
The corridor run presented a different challenge: a 40-meter continuous span with a deliberate kink at the elevator core. The design team decided to treat the kink as a reveal rather than a seam, which proved to be the right call aesthetically. Post-occupancy photos show the fiber reading warmer and more dimensional than the team had anticipated from samples alone.
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