Gold lattice screen panels for Malaysia Airlines

We made gold lattice screen panels for a Malaysia Airlines art installation, each laser cut in its own pattern, then primed and sprayed gold by hand.

Client: Malaysia Airlines
Service: Art Installations & Wall Murals
Made for: An art installation for Malaysia Airlines
What it is: A set of lattice screens, each in its own pattern
Finished in: One even gold across every panel

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What we brought

What we can do
Fine geometric patterns, cut clean
We laser cut each panel in its own lattice: flowing petals, six-point stars, interlocking squares, crosses and diagonal stripes.
How we look after you
Finished by hand in our spray booth
Every panel was primed, then sprayed gold in light coats and touched up by hand before it dried.
What you get
A matched set, ready for the installation
Malaysia Airlines received panels in different patterns that read as one set, in the same even gold.

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The finished piece
The tall six-point star panel leans against a white wall.
A panel cut in crosses and squares is held up against a white wall.
The diagonal stripes are finished in gold.
The petal pattern is finished.
Curved petals meet at small stars.
The six-point star lattice casts its shadow on the wall behind.
Cutting the panelsThe interlocking squares panel is cut and ready.
The diagonal stripes panel has no gold on it yet.
Spray finishingThe first gold coats go on.
We spray the petal pattern.
We spray gold over the diagonal stripes.
We touch up the panel by hand.
The petal panel dries after spraying.

The build

How we built it

4 steps, from the brief to the finished piece. Pick a step to jump to it.

The brief

Step 1 of 4

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we made the gold lattice panels for a Malaysia Airlines art installation. Malaysia Airlines needed a set of decorative screens, each cut in its own geometric pattern and all finished in the same gold.

Cutting the panels

Step 2 of 4

We laser cut each panel from wood sheet, one pattern per panel: flowing petals, six-point stars, interlocking squares, crosses and diagonal stripes, with every opening cut clean through.

A bare wood panel cut in a lattice of interlocking squares, lying flat before spraying — The interlocking squares panel is cut and ready.

A bare wood panel cut in bands of diagonal stripes, lying on the floor of our spray booth — The diagonal stripes panel has no gold on it yet.

Spray finishing

Step 3 of 4

In our spray booth, each panel was primed, then sprayed gold in light, even coats, working round the panel so the colour reached every cut edge. We then checked each one and touched up thin spots by hand.

The first gold coats go on.

A team member spraying gold over the petal pattern panel on the floor of the spray booth — We spray the petal pattern.

A can of gold spray held over the diagonal stripe panel in the booth — We spray gold over the diagonal stripes.

We touch up the panel by hand.

The petal pattern panel fully sprayed gold, drying on the booth floor — The petal panel dries after spraying.

The final build

Step 4 of 4

The finished panels went out as one set, ready for the installation.

The tall six-point star panel leans against a white wall.

Finish close-ups

These close-ups show the gold on two of the patterns.

Close-up of a gold lattice of curved petals meeting at small stars, light falling through the openings — Curved petals meet at small stars.

Close-up of a gold six-point star lattice, its shadow cast on the white wall behind — The six-point star lattice casts its shadow on the wall behind.

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Gold lattice screen panels for Malaysia Airlines

What we brought

Fine geometric patterns, cut clean

Finished by hand in our spray booth

A matched set, ready for the installation

Gallery