Arches, Drops & Races
As well as this years pride balloon walls I’m providing a walking float at a number of parades, the first being Birmingham Pride. This NATWEST framework is old school, we used to do aluminium shapes like this in the 90’s before foil balloon lettering was introduced. Each letter is bent into shape and then covered […]
2019 Is going to be the summer of 27 balloon walls. As I build each installation I’ll post photo’s here. In the end I think it was 30 walls as some were added and Chester was built twice due to the parade being postponed. Hopefully you can see as you scroll down that I got […]
We installed 2 of these entrance arches at Deutsche Bank central London office receptions. Including Chrome Green to give it some lift. The 2 entrances are different sizes – 1 huge main entrance and smaller doors towards the back of the building. This required arches with 7 poles and 5 poles. I can only fit […]
We helped launch Kerfuffle with decorations at Tiger Tiger (Haymarket) and The Grosvenor (Park Lane). When building sculptures time can run away with you. Its risky to attempt to build shapes like these 100% on site so I like to build the day before and transport everything ready made. It’s far less stressful having to […]
Here’s the hot air balloon we made at Coombe Abbey for a 1st Birthday celebration. The basket was made using Quicklinks and we left the back open for children to walk in for that instagram photo. This was part of a bigger decoration, you can see more examples of the theme below. How to make […]
This wall was part of a 1st Birthday celebration at Coombe Abbey. It was used as a partition to separate the bar from the main marquee. It had to look fantastic from both sides. I used big base plates close together to make sure the structure was strong and could withstand the odd bashing from […]
Balloon Wall for a wedding at The Hurlingham Club including a foam board sign. It’s very tempting to keep adding and adding to these structures…. see below:
Here’s an entrance for The Savoy ballroom plus we inflated 50 x 36″ fetti filled diamond clear balloons this 21st Birthday celebration at The Savoy. We used Hi Float to help the Gold flutter stick all over the inside of the balloon. We mixed in some Gold Orbz to create massive bouquets that almost reached […]
Spar balloon wall built on the 1st Floor, Barclaycard Arena. As these walls get more popular it’s becoming important to incorporate a logo. In the 1990’s precision walls were good for a while until the star cloth became a better option. Now that everybody wants to share a selfie (or a snap of their kids) […]
Another 2 x 500 balloon drops installed at Billingsate Market. Here’s previous installs for 2014 & 2016 Your balloon drops worked beautifully at Old Billingsgate on Friday. The party was a great success, so thank you for being part of that. Under Construction pic.twitter.com/NN7fZV8Uue — balloon (@balloon) 10 January 2019 Working at Old Billingsgate today […]
Another selfie wall for Nu-Skin, this one was at the London Park Plaza and includes this frame for a Pop Up Display promoting Girl Power.
This New Years Eve I decided to concentrate on London venues only, I didn’t cover Birmingham for the first time in 28 years. It worked out well and with 3 crew on the 30th and 6 crew on 31st we covered Mayfair, Park Lane, Knightsbridge, Southbank, The O2 and The Ned. Thank you very much […]