A UK first at WOW!house 2026.
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A UK first at WOW!house 2026.
A spa bathroom concept for WOW!house 2026, created with Rigby & Rigby and Samuel Heath. Lutron Ketra lighting, six video walls and audio ran in perfect sync throughout the month-long show, in the first Ketra installation ever shown in Europe.
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Project requirements.
Rigby & Rigby and Samuel Heath asked us to deliver all of the technology for their room at WOW!house 2026. The concept was a calm, restorative spa bathroom with no natural light, where six tall digital screens in three locations acted as windows, showing a looping film of scenes from around the world, from Thailand and Tokyo to beaches and snowscapes. The light and sound in the room had to change with every scene. The room would also be unmanned for the whole show, switched on each morning and off each evening, so the system had to be completely reliable. Everything had to be installed within a four-day build window, working alongside the other trades.
Solution.
We specified a Lutron Ketra lighting system, the first to be installed in the UK, with Lutron flying the equipment into Heathrow specially for the room. Ketra controls colour temperature across the full range from warm candlelight to bright arctic daylight, alongside full-spectrum colour and smooth dimming from 0 to 100%. That let us match the light in the room to the film: bright, cool daylight for the snow scenes and soft, warm light for the beach. We picked colours directly from the video and entered their exact RGB values into Ketra to reproduce them in the room. A media server synchronised the lighting, video and soundtrack, with every part of the film timestamped so they could never drift apart. We built and pre-programmed the whole system, screens included, in our workshop before taking it to site.
Outcome.
The room ran all day, every day, for the month-long show without a single failure, and never once fell out of sync, with nobody on site to look after it. It was received really well, and it showed just how much light shapes the way we feel: the same room could feel bright and alive one moment, then calm and warm the next. Bringing Lutron Ketra to Europe for the first time, and delivering it in a four-day window, is something we are particularly proud of.
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