The brief
On 5 November 2026 the National Maritime Museum opened its doors for Under the Stars, a celestial themed evening of drinks, canapés and dining across its galleries. The museum entrance glowed in orange light, and inside, a round 4m bar sat at the heart of the gallery beneath a glowing Deep Space ring light.
We were asked to design and clad that bar so it belonged to the night sky: bold enough to stand out under moody blue gallery lighting, and special enough to be the spot where every guest gathered for a drink.
Designing the night sky
Our studio created a deep space design that wraps all the way around the bar: ringed planets, crescent moons, starbursts and a scatter of stardust and comets. The artwork is mostly deep black, with every planet, moon and star left as a shape for the mirror to shine through.
Black print, silver mirror reveals
We printed the design in punchy black onto silver mirror sheets in house on our Fuji UV flatbed. Where the black stops, the mirror shows through, so the moons and planets are not printed silver: they are real mirror. Under the Deep Space ring light they catch the blues and whites of the gallery, and the reflections shift as guests move around the bar, so the cosmos seems to sparkle all night.
The result
A bar that looked like it had landed from deep space. It carried the celestial theme straight into the place where guests gathered for drinks, sat perfectly beside the astronomy photography on the gallery walls, and turned up in photo after photo of the evening.