 Well it's time for winner home right turn off to express welcome back. This is where three talented young design contestants turn three empty apartments into dream homes at the Polo Village at the Valdivia state in the Cape Wine Lens and the best part is that you the viewer stand a chance of winning one of the completed apartments valued at over three million rand. It's absolutely amazing. So today we're joined by Robin Sprung who creates custom designer and photographic wallpapers, printed canvases, fabric prints, vinyl wall tattoos and many other surfaces particularly that he likes to design on and conceptualized to he's been in the business for more than 10 years and his work has represented South Africa he's been in the UK Australia Netherlands USA and Germany you name it he's been there welcome to the love Robin. Thank you very much nice to be here. Cool so I always ask all of the artists that come into our life don't you think our place is very pretty do you think it doesn't need any. It's great needs a little bit of wallpaper you've got a few pieces a piece behind me. What you would say that I thought you would. Let's talk a bit about wallpaper art design because I think a lot of youngsters like to get into graphic design and maybe to work in interior design. Yeah, how did you find yourself in wallpaper art? I actually started off as a photographer so I worked photographing a lot of stuff landscapes and I had so much imagery and I kind of always had that feeling that I was giving my stuff away for the cost of the shoot. So I started collecting a lot of landscape images different types of textures different type of really nice sort of funky images and we're doing something different. So I used I started off with those images and I and I felt that just printing a picture and putting it in a frame on the wall was a bit silly. Why not do the whole wall? Yeah, so digital technology was starting to evolve at that time and a friend of mine said come to us come play with my some of my machines and we did here you are. Yeah, and that's a success something that I find quite interesting obviously is the fact that wallpaper was a big thing back in the day. And I think of the 90s and 80s or something. It was a really massive thing. Wallpapers and trying to get graphics on the wall and then it sort of moved more towards paints and colours and simplicity and now wallpaper is back. It's the new trend and why has it moved in that direction? And is it a big thing at the moment in interior design worlds? I think the whole printing industry is completely evolved in the old days. You know, to set up wallpaper printing companies, it was a huge big process. It was Latha printing. It was a different silk screen printing. So these days with digital printing, you can do anything and you can do it in a very small quantity. So you can print just as much as you need. You don't have to set up screens and jigs and so it's become accessible for people. It's become accessible for designers to start designing. It's become easy for them to just sort of like spend some time on the computer, put it out there and then they've got they've got they can digitally print or do final cutting or whatever it is that they need. So those obviously I want to get people out of the mindset of thinking that it's only about wallpaper, which is something that you can pull off appeal for and stick on to the walls. And there's more to it. There's a whole bunch of vinyls that you can use. They're different textures, different mediums that you can use. I mean, you've worked a lot in various different types and forms. But what is your expertise line and what are the options to us available instead of doing paint? Yeah, I think wallpaper is always one. There's vinyl printing, which means that you can go into glass. You can go into any flat surfaces with there's now people that are even experimenting on surface prints that you can do for exteriors. You can do things on you can you can pretty much it's endless. Any any type of print is even people that are printing using water where you can print onto a helmet. So it's absolutely endless these days. Yeah, you've also worked in places like nightclubs. You've worked in restaurants. You've worked in doctor's rooms. I mean, the different applications for all of those. And everyone has something different. Let's talk to some of these images. So this nightclub that you've done over here. This was a nightclub that we did. And the clients asked us that it was called Harem and they wanted it to feel like a Harem in Johannesburg. They wanted to feel like it was a really nice sort of like when you go in, there's lots of girls with their sort of Arab things. So we did these curtains where we put it onto the fabric. And then we sort of we did this behind the couch, as you can see the eyes. And that was that was the brief for that. We also did glass tops with them for the bar tops, where we did these sort of painted hands and so that was holding the glasses. And then we did all the sort of logo designs on all the different on all the different table tops. So we were given so much you can do. So much so much you can do. A lot of properties also like to collaborate with the sort of wallpapers or designs and the paint colours. And how do you find that balance? How do you how do you really what comes first? Furniture, wallpaper, paint, wallpaper? How does it all work out together? I think furniture's got to go first. I think you've got to get your mood right. You've got to get you've got to get to know what sort of space you want it to be. And then it's a lot easier for us to sort of see what's possible. Once you once you've chosen your colours, once you've chosen your mood, then we can suggest, look, are we going to do a photographic print? Are we going to do? Are we going to do patterns? Are we going to do something like that? And then that sort of that sort of helps you build up your story. And I think jumping the gun and trying doing a wallpaper and then trying to adapt your furniture to is going to be quite a difficult process process. You're brilliant at what you do. I must say I'm really, really like inspired by the work that you do and it's exciting to have you on the couch because one of our contestants for Winner Home has already they've had one day and the first thing he's done, Rudolph, has come to visit you and you guys have started to collaborate. Yes, that's right. You know, we met him and then he asked us to do wallpaper for him. We pretty much one of my junior designers actually sat until four o'clock in the morning doing this sort of contour design for him. And it's been great working with him. We're very happy to be part of the Valdavi Polo estate. In fact, we're doing another massive home and at the moment while we speak. So it's been it's been a really nice relationship. Well, I'm glad the relation is there because Valdavi is a beautiful estate and you guys have taken a lot of inspiration from there. So from what I've heard from Rudolph's progress, he's really excited to incorporate what Valdavi's got. So it's cool to have you on part of that project. Also cool to have you to chat about the importance of looking after your home and making it look beautiful. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks, Robin. It's good to have you on the show with us. So we're honored and excited to have one of home right here on Afternoon Express. You'll see our three design contestants gradually transform three properties at the Valdavi estate using finishes provided by Cesar Stone and Plaskon. Judging their work and is renowned architects, Stefan Antony and result from Plaskon and Simon Bray from Private Property. You could win one of the finished apartments valued at over three million rand in the grand prize competition to find that go to privateproperty.co.za. Winner Home is proudly brought to you by Private Property in association with Nedbank. Now after the break, we put to the finishing touches on our lemon curd ricotta cake. Don't go anywhere.