What are the best speakers for a restaurant with decorative walls?

Flush in-wall speakers with a very small face. XSCACE Bonsai In-Ceiling/In-Wall is 22 mm wide and 13 mm deep, so it can sit inside a mural or panel pattern.

How deep is the Bonsai In-Ceiling/In-Wall?

It occupies 13 mm of the surface and installs with spring clips into a cut-out.

Can Bonsai In-Ceiling/In-Wall run all day in a restaurant?

It is rated at 40 W RMS (50 W peak) into 8 ohms in an anodised aerospace-aluminium housing, suitable for the long hours of hospitality use.

Does Bonsai In-Ceiling/In-Wall need a subwoofer?

It plays from 300 Hz to 18 kHz. For full-range music, add a subwoofer at the recommended 300 Hz crossover.

Can the same speaker go in the ceiling and the wall?

Yes. The same unit, cut-out and spring clips are used in walls and ceilings, vertically or horizontally.

Can Bonsai be colour-matched to a painted wall?

The anodised housing can be finished in any RAL colour; white units are powder coated.

Case Study: Bonsai in a Hand-Painted Restaurant Mural

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When a restaurant's walls are the artwork, restaurant speakers have to disappear into them. This dining hall has a fully painted ceiling and hand-crafted mural panels of birds, trees and vessels running the length of the room. XSCACE Bonsai In-Ceiling/In-Wall was set flush into the mural, so the speakers sit inside the pattern instead of on top of it. The photographs were taken during the fit-out, before the furniture was unwrapped.

A restaurant dining hall with a painted ceiling and hand-crafted mural walls. XSCACE Bonsai In-Ceiling/In-Wall, 22 mm wi

Restaurant dining hall with a painted ceiling and a long hand-crafted mural wall during fit-out — The mural wall runs the length of the dining hall.

Case study at a glance

Venue: restaurant dining hall with a painted ceiling and mural walls
Product: Bonsai In-Ceiling/In-Wall, flush-mounted
Mounting surface: hand-crafted mural wall panels
Footprint: 22 mm wide, 13 mm deep
Goal: background music across the dining hall with no visible speakers

Placing a speaker inside a pattern

A decorative wall leaves very few places where a grille can go unnoticed. Bonsai In-Ceiling/In-Wall is 22 mm wide and occupies only 13 mm of depth, so it fits within a single band of the mural's border work. It installs with spring clips into a cut-out, and every fastener sits behind the grille plane, so nothing breaks the painted surface.

Close view of the hand-crafted mural panel where an XSCACE Bonsai speaker is set flush into the border — The speaker sits within the mural's border band.

Mural wall panel with painted birds, trees and vessels and a flush speaker in the pattern — The same wall from a wider angle.

Built for a commercial duty cycle

A restaurant system runs through every service, often for twelve hours or more. Bonsai In-Ceiling/In-Wall handles 40 W RMS (50 W peak) at 8 ohms, with four Power Dense custom woofers covering 300 Hz to 18 kHz and up to 103 dB maximum SPL. That range carries speech and background music clearly; low frequencies are handed to a subwoofer at the recommended 300 Hz crossover.

The same speaker for walls and ceilings

The same unit, cut-out and clips work in a ceiling or a wall, and in vertical or horizontal orientation, so one product covers both the mural walls and any ceiling positions without changing the look. The aluminium housing is anodised and can be finished in any RAL colour, and white units are powder coated.

Planning hospitality systems

For a dining hall like this, the XSCACE Configurator predicts coverage table by table before any panel is cut. See also Bonsai built into a restaurant bar and open kitchen and the two-zone clubhouse restaurant.