You have a lobby elevation to fill, and nothing off the shelf is the right size, reads from the entrance, or fits through the goods lift

This page is for the hotel designer, owner's representative or art consultant who is briefing a small number of high-value pieces for public areas: the reception back-wall, the wall behind the desk, a lift lobby, a double-height atrium, a VIP lounge or a bar back-wall. You specify by wall dimension and sightline rather than by room count, you want the piece to carry from the entrance, and you buy through a chain of approvals rather than on your own signature. Public-area pieces are normally weighted more heavily in a hotel art budget than guest-room work, because they anchor the arrival ³.

It is not the page for a whole-property programme. If you are also buying 120 guest-room works, start at hotel guest-room programmes and treat the lobby pieces as a line item in that order; the same quote can carry both. If the oversized wall is in a private house (a double-height stairwell, a hall), the sizing method is the same but the buyer and the access route are different, and that page is oversized and custom-size walls; this page stays with the commercial approval chain. If you are an art consultant assembling the whole collection from several suppliers, art consultants covers how we fit into a matrix with named artists and other sources.

What follows is written from your four recurring problems outward: the elevation, the goods lift, the viewing distance and the approval chain, each with what we actually do about it.

A reception wall is 6.2 m wide and 3.4 m high; a stock canvas is 150 × 100 cm. Buying large from stock and hoping it holds the wall is the usual failure, and the guidance from installers is consistent: the common mistake is going too small, not too big ¹.

We do not hold stock, so there is nothing to compromise on. Every work in the catalogue is painted to order, and the painter re-proportions the composition to the dimensions you send rather than cropping or stretching an image. The listed sizes give you the starting points: almost every vertical or horizontal work lists 14 sizes up to 80 × 60 in (203 × 153 cm); every panoramic work lists 11 sizes up to 50 × 100 in (127 × 254 cm); most square works run to 72 × 72 in (183 × 183 cm). Beyond those templates, 2 m+ and panoramic formats are normal work for the studio and are quoted individually and confirmed in writing before painting starts.

What we need from you is the elevation with the wall opening, the mounting height and anything that competes for the wall (signage, a desk, a joinery return). We propose a canvas size, or a panel split, and state it on the written quote before you commit. Because sizes are templated by orientation rather than by work, treat oversized as a service we perform on any of the 557 lobby works, not as a filter you can browse.

Yes, and for anything over about 2 m on the long side it is the route we recommend. A stretched 254 × 127 cm canvas will not turn the corner in a standard goods lift or pass a 900 mm door; a rolled one arrives in a strong paper tube, and large canvases travelling rolled is standard practice for exactly this reason ¹.

How it works in practice:

• Rolled: the finished canvas is rolled, packed in a strong paper tube and shipped insured by DHL, FedEx or USPS at no charge. Your fit-out contractor or a local framer stretches it onto bars on site. Ask for the finished canvas dimensions and the wrap margin to be stated on the quote, so the framer can order bars before the tube arrives.
• Stretched: where the access route allows, we stretch on bars and box it. Tell us the tightest point on the route (lift car, door, stair landing) and we will tell you whether it fits.
• Framed: gold, silver, black, white or wood frames, for pieces that will be handled as finished objects on site.

Rolled delivery also solves the timing problem: the canvas can sit in its tube in the site store until the wall is decorated and the joinery is in, and the stretching becomes a half-day job in the snagging period rather than a delivery that has to be sequenced around the lift. Shipping is free and insured on every option.

A guest-room piece is looked at from a bed; a lobby piece is seen from the revolving door, across a marble floor, under downlights. Anything seen from 15 feet or more needs a bold composition, while close-range work can rely on detail ¹. Two parts of the catalogue are built for distance.

Textured & Plaster (112 lobby works) carries relief: sculpted ridges, gold leaf and plaster forms that catch raking light and change as the guest walks past, so the piece keeps working after the first glance. Abstract (176 lobby works) gives large fields of colour and gesture that stay legible at any distance. Across all styles, 381 lobby works are tagged Bold or Dramatic, which is the mood pair we would start you in for a reception wall; Uplifting (209) suits an atrium or a resort arrival.

Palette is adjusted to the scheme. Send the stone sample, the joinery finish and the paint reference and the painter shifts the colour family of any catalogue piece: a warm-neutral plaster piece can be pushed toward the bronze of the reception desk, or a cobalt abstract cooled to match the brand blue. You approve the palette on the sketch and again on the first progress photo before the piece is built up.

Cuts below open the Bold and Dramatic lobby works by style; each tile shows the live count.

Public-area art fails on process more than on taste. When the designer is judging colour, the architect scale, the developer market appeal and the owner personal preference, and nobody has fixed the sequence, the result is late changes and a piece that arrives after handover ². We fit into the sequence you already run rather than adding one of our own.

1. Quote and written spec. Within one business day of your brief you get a quote with the work, size, panel split, palette notes and finish stated in writing. That is the document that goes round the chain; nothing is painted until it comes back confirmed.
2. Sketch approval on commissions. A commission painted from your reference starts with a layout sketch, and a larger run can start with a sketch or a sample piece; each is a hold point and we wait for your sign-off. For a single re-proportioned catalogue piece the first progress photo is the layout check.
3. Progress photos or video, stage by stage. Underpainting, texture build, final palette. Each stage is a photo or a short video you can forward to the owner or brand team, and each is a hold point.
4. Final approval before shipping. A full photograph of the finished, signed canvas, with the certificate of authenticity, before it is rolled or crated.

Because every approval happens before the next stage starts, a brand-standards objection surfaces on a progress photo in the studio rather than on site after handover. Every piece is signed by the artist and ships with a certificate of authenticity for the hotel's art register.

The install date is usually the fixed point in a hotel programme and everything schedules backwards from it ³. This is the sequence for a lobby order, with the durations we work to.

1. Brief (day 0). Elevation, wall dimensions, sightline, access route, palette references, finish, install date. See the checklist below.
2. Quote (within 1 business day). Work, size or panel split, finish, price, lead time, all in writing. Commissions and formats beyond the listed templates are quoted individually.
3. Approval round (your timetable). The quote and sketch go round owner, brand and designer. We hold until it returns.
4. Painting (about 1 week). Progress photos or video at each stage with approval before the next. Very large or multi-panel work is quoted with its own duration.
5. Final approval and dispatch. Full photograph, signature and certificate confirmed; canvas rolled in a tube or stretched and crated.
6. Transit (3–7 days). Free, insured, by DHL, FedEx or USPS, to the site, the fit-out contractor or your framer, with tracking.
7. On site. Rolled canvases are stretched by your contractor or framer; stretched and framed pieces are hung as delivered.

Door to door is 10–13 days for a standard piece once the approval round is closed. The approval round is the variable we do not control, so if the opening date is tight, send the brief early and run the sketch approval while the joinery is still on the drawings. One piece is a valid order, so a single reception wall is not too small to brief; volume pricing starts at 10 pieces, which matters if the same order carries the guest-room programme.

A lobby brief that quotes cleanly the first time carries the same items a procurement team would put in an artwork matrix: dimensions, finish, placement and the date ³. Send as much of the list as you have; we will ask for the rest.

• The elevation (PDF or DWG) with the wall opening dimensions in cm or inches, mounting height and anything on the wall: signage, desk, joinery returns, sprinkler heads.
• The sightline. Where the guest first sees the wall (entrance, lift, bar) and the distance, so we advise on scale and on texture versus flat colour.
• Lighting. Downlights, wall-washers or track; raking light favours Textured & Plaster.
• The access route. Lift car internal dimensions, door widths, stair turns. This decides rolled versus stretched.
• Palette references. Paint codes, stone and timber samples, the brand colour, or a photograph of the scheme board.
• Reference works. Catalogue codes (for example TA#156, AA#755) or images from anywhere, with a note on what to keep and what to change.
• Finish. Rolled, stretched or framed (gold, silver, black, white, wood).
• Quantity and the rest of the order. If guest-room, corridor or restaurant works are on the same programme, say so; volume pricing applies from 10 pieces across the order.
• Install date and who receives. Site, contractor or framer delivery address, and the name of the person who signs for it.

Use the quote form with the role set to Hospitality group, or email the elevation with the list above.

Yes, and it is the standard answer for a wall wider than about 2.5 m, a wall broken by a column or a door, or a route where a single 3 m canvas cannot be moved. Three-part sets spread a composition across a wide wall without leaving it looking gapped ¹. To be plain about what is and is not in the catalogue: only 10 works are listed as sets (for example TA#001, a two-panel gold sunburst listed up to 80 × 53 in per panel, and TA#387, a three-panel set in silver, white, grey and gold). Everything else is a single canvas, and a panel set is something we make to order from it.

How a set is made: the painter takes the chosen work, re-proportions it to the total wall width, and splits it into two or three canvases with the composition running across the joins. You specify the gap between panels (50–100 mm is usual on a lobby wall) and we compose to it, so a stroke or a plaster ridge does not fall in the gap. Each panel is then a manageable object: a 6.2 m wall becomes two 203 × 135 cm canvases or three 200 × 150 cm canvases, each of which rolls into its own tube or, if access allows, ships stretched.

Sets also solve a sequencing problem: a set can be stretched and hung by two people in a morning, where a single 3 m stretched piece needs a crew and a clear route. If you would rather have one canvas, that is also painted to order; we will tell you on the quote which route we recommend for your route and wall.

You do not need to page through the whole catalogue. The tiles here are cuts of the 557 Lobby & Reception works by the axes a public-area brief actually uses: mood (Bold, Dramatic), style (Textured & Plaster, Abstract), orientation (panoramic, horizontal, square for a bar or a lift-lobby pair) and palette (gold and black for a dark scheme; beige, white, gold and brown for a warm-neutral one). Each count is live. Any work you land on can be re-proportioned, recoloured and split into panels as described above; a code is a starting point, not a fixed object.

Themes worth knowing about for public areas: Landscape (137 lobby works) for a resort or destination arrival; Cultural & Folk (37) where the brand story is regional; Geometric (89) for a business hotel. Vertical works tagged Entryway & Hallway and Dramatic (95) are the pool for a pair either side of a lift bank. For a bar back-wall, the panoramic works tagged Restaurant & Bar (59) are already composed for a long, low wall behind a counter.

If the scheme needs something the catalogue does not hold, a commission runs on the same approval process; and if the owner wants a piece with a provenance story for the arrival, the senior partnered artists' master works, kept as painted with exhibition history and a photograph with the artist, are described on the custom and master-works page.