The Haymes Paint specifier team recently teamed up with Native Design Workshop to help bring an eye-catching mural to life in the new Brunswick headquarters of renowned coffee machine makers, Victoria Arduino. The ‘Experience Lab’ artistically launches Victoria Arduino to Melbourne – the beating heart of the coffee world.  

The mural is a modern reinterpretation of an iconic artwork by painter Leonetto Cappiello, with the Haymes Paint team commissioned to create bespoke Pantone-matched shades in their Ultra Premium Expressions Interior Low sheen paint for the project.   

The aim of this project was to create a contextual ‘Experience Lab’ at the Australian headquarters for Victoria Arduino. With the core function of this environment being a workspace for the company’s team, this is also a space where industry professionals can view, test, and learn how to use the coffee machines, while also gaining an understanding of the products and their origins. Furthermore, the Experience Lab will act as a training ground for some of the best baristas in the world.  

The centrepiece of the ‘Experience Lab’ is a recreation of a painting by Leonetto Cappiello that was acquired by Victoria Arduino in 1922 and portrays an elegant traveller leaning off a moving train while preparing an espresso with a Victoria Arduino coffee machine.

This modern reimagining of the artwork was brought to life with Pantone-matched Haymes Paint. Pantone is an international colour system; therefore, international designers are likely to use it to ensure colours appear correctly across the board. Converting Pantone colours to their paint equivalent is notoriously difficult and for the most accurate match it is often a manual process.

The water-based Haymes Paint Expressions Interior paint was hand-painted with a variety of brushes by professional signwriter, Larry Stammers from Sign Vision. Haymes Paint Expressions Low Sheen is a highly durable interior paint that provides great coverage and is easy to apply. 

Business: Victoria Arduino
Signwriter: Signvision Melbourne
Builder/Architect: Neverstop Group
Photographer: Tatjana Plitt
Architect: Native Design Workshop