A tiger at rest on its log
A prowling tiger is dramatic but hard to place. A resting tiger on a log is calm, and that calm is what makes this piece work in a zoo entrance or a mall atrium where people gather. Built at 1.2× body scale, the animal lies along the log with the head turned slightly toward the approaching visitor, so the first thing anyone sees is the face and the stripe pattern, not just a bulk of orange. The 1.2× reference keeps it larger than life without dominating the room.
Stripe accuracy is the entire brief
Tiger stripes are not decoration, they are a fingerprint: no two are identical, and the pattern has to flow across the shoulder, the flank and the legs without breaking. We map the markings from a single specimen pattern and hand-paint them onto fire-retardant satin silk after it is stretched, so each stripe follows the muscle. Over that we lay a layered fur-effect silk, a second translucent panel that breaks the hard edge of the stripe and gives the coat a soft, brushed depth rather than a printed look.
Lit to show the coat, not flatten it
The tiger is lit as two zones, flank and head, with the head kept brightest so the face draws the eye. The 5W-class CE LED bulbs sit behind the layered silk, and the fur-effect panel is what stops the light from turning the orange into a flat sheet. At 1.2× scale the face is large enough that the stripe accuracy reads from a metre away, which is the distance visitors stand at in an atrium.
Placing a focal-point figure
This piece suits a zoo entrance or a mall atrium where it can act as the centre of a space rather than a trail stop. It is built in the Zigong workshop to your site on the XL-AN series, 0.6 to 6 m class, and the log and body share one base fixing sized for the local wind load. Fixing and wiring drawings are issued with the piece, and installation is either carried out by our team on site or supported remotely for your own contractors.
