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Custom-made works

When a material alone is not enough and a motif is to carry the room, Welter develops the Wandunikat from the ground up. From the first sketch through the choice of material to the installation, one single piece comes into being – handcrafted in the Berlin manufacture, always for a specific place.

Curved staircase in a cinema, above it a school of golden fish reliefs in front of a large-format wall picture — Astor Filmlounge Hamburg – school of fish above the staircase

Industrial pendant lamp in front of a craquelure wall of coloured diamond plates in beige, rosé and grey tones — Industrial pendant lamp in front of a craquelure diamond grid

Hand-painted jungle motif with monstera leaves and a red lily blossom on a tall wall, with a gilded chandelier in the foreground — Jungle wall painting, made by hand

Floor-to-ceiling fireplace clad with folded gold-leaf panels, slanted ceiling and window in the background — Floor-to-ceiling fireplace in gold leaf

Two wall lights with amber shades in front of a wave-formed, gold-shimmering wall — Wall lights on a gold wave wall

Three-dimensional inlay of craquelure plates with pink lotus blossoms on a white-and-gold ground — Three-dimensional inlay 9701 – lotus blossoms

Close-up of a dragon motif laid from white craquelure plates on a grey-green mosaic ground — Dragon inlay – craquelure mosaic, close-up

Red craquelure wall with a hand-painted peony branch in soft pink and green — Craquelure in vermilion red with peony motif

Three craftswomen on scaffolding mounting a large-format feather wall picture in soft white on a green wall — Feather wall picture – installation on the wall

Floor-to-ceiling feather wall picture in soft white on a green wall surface, framed between two marble pillars, flanked by two elongated glass lamps — Feather wall picture between marble pillars

Close-up of the feather wall picture – hand-drawn white feather structures on a sage-green ground — Feather wall picture – detail

Ceiling installation of hundreds of silhouetted fish suspended on threads, lit by turquoise-and-violet colour reflections — Astor Filmlounge Hamburg – school-of-fish ceiling installation

Wandunikate as custom-made works — from design to installation

Some rooms demand more than a choice from the catalogue. A staircase above which a school of fish appears to swim. A bar whose walls, as an interlocked chevron pattern, work like theatre scenery. A fireplace, set within a specially designed gold-leaf architecture. In such cases, Welter Wandunikate begin with a pencil on white paper – and end as a handcrafted, one-of-a-kind piece on precisely that wall.

From motif to material

At the beginning stands the motif: a fish, a peony, a dragon, an ornamental sweep, a geometric structure. Welter translates this motif into the matching material – into craquelure, metal leaf, glass beads, eggshell veneer, broken minerals or hand-painted lacquer layers. Every choice is made together with the client, the architects and the interior designers, sampled and approved, before the manufacture begins prefabrication.

One piece, one room, one commission

Custom-made works are neither scalable nor repeatable. They are created for a specific place – a hotel lobby, a private library, a restaurant, a foyer. Welter accompanies every project from the first design through the sampling, the prefabrication in Berlin and the delivery to the installation by its own craftspeople.

For a conversation about your custom-made work, reach the atelier in Berlin directly at +49 30 21750647.

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