So that Colin Christian fellow I just posted about used to have a section on his site where he showed some of the amazing wall paneling he had done for stores and movie sets. It's gone now, but the Wayback Machine still has partial copies here and here.
I wish DNA Lounge looked like that.
A few years back I mailed the guy to get a quote, and his rates were actually pretty reasonable: around $150 per panel, after setup costs. But, to cover the downstairs walls would end up costing something like $10K, and it's hard to justify spending that much of money on something that the fucking savages we call customers would just destroy immediately.
And I am sad.
...it's hard to justify spending that much of money on something that the fucking savages we call customers would just destroy immediately.
Could you put, say, sacrificial acrylic panels in front of the art panels? (I suspect acrylic panels cost as much as art, unfortunately.)
If you can't put them up at the DNA Lounge, why not put them up at home for the appreciative audience there?
How about flayed homeboy skins as wall hangings?
I'm planning a chavhide couch, next time the drunken scumbags fall over my front step again.
I believe you want lexan... lucite is easy to fracture or scratch. Lexan is "unbreakable" (i.e., it has a large plastic failure regime rather than being brittle), bulletproof, and in sufficient thicknesses, drunk-proof.
And at somewhere north of $100 for a 1/8"x4'x8' sheet, I'd say it's pretty safely more expensive than the art. Also, 1/8" should be stumbling-drunk-proof, but I'm not sure it would be falling-down-drunk-proof.
Why not just the upstairs lounge? it would be easier to patrol, and cost less....but then again, I just took the time to read the little blurbs there and realized that they are made of things like styrafoam. That wouldn't last one night...
There's a school/studio in oakland cranking out metal artists. It'd probably cost about the same but would be less destructable (and attempts at such would just add character rather than destroying the illusion). You could do it over time to spread out the cost -- like the borg slowly taking over. Not one panel at a time, necessarily but like a sparse structure throughout and then filling in over time as mood suits. Ooo...ooo... toss in a low-power grid and take advantage of modern LED tech.
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It's time to admit that you want a nightclub that people pay money to enter at the door and leave by the same door almost immediately only having time to gasp at the combination of carven wood panelling and working suspended monitors.