You are fitting out villas by type, in phases, on an island the courier has to be told about

You are the owner, operator or FF&E consultant of a resort with 40–200 villas or rooms in a coastal, island or destination location: the Indian Ocean, South-East Asia, the Caribbean, or a lodge at the end of a long road. You specify art per villa type rather than per room, so one brief covers a bedroom piece, a living-pavilion piece and often a bathroom piece, and that set repeats across every villa of that type. The public areas, spa, arrival pavilion and beach club, come as a separate, smaller list of larger pieces.

You buy against a construction programme that is still moving. Villas hand over in phases, the spa finishes last, and the opening date has probably already shifted once. In the Maldives alone, nine resorts of 50–130 villas each are tracked for 2026–2027 opening, several of which have slipped from 2025 ¹.

You usually ask three things: can the villa set be ordered in tranches as villas complete; can the courier actually reach the address; and can the same painting be re-ordered a year later when a piece is damaged in service.

Not you? A city hotel programme with keys on floors is on hotel guest-room programmes. A standalone spa or wellness centre is on spas & wellness centres. One or two very large pieces for an arrival lobby, without the villa run, is on lobby statement art. A private villa or whole-house project is on villas & whole-house projects.

What goes wrong. A supplier who holds stock wants the whole order shipped at once, because that is how their warehouse works. So either 180 pieces arrive on an island before the villas exist and sit in a container in the heat, or the resort orders late and the last villas open with empty walls. If the design is later discontinued, replacements for the second phase do not match the first.

What we do. Every work is painted to order, so there is no reason to ship anything before the villas that will receive it are ready. You send the villa-type schedule and the handover dates; we quote the whole programme once, then paint and ship it as tranches matched to those dates. Each tranche's dispatch date is committed in writing at quotation, per our logistics terms for bulk and project orders. If the programme slips, the tranche moves with it: we have not painted anything yet, so nothing is sitting in a box.

Because there is no stock, there is also nothing to discontinue. A catalogue reference painted for tranche one in March is painted again for tranche three in November from the same reference and the same approved sample, and again in two years when a guest damages one. It will be a fresh original, painted by hand, so it will differ from its neighbour in the way hand-painting differs; the composition, size and palette are the same.

What goes wrong. The courier gets the art to the capital and stops. The resort's own logistics team then has to collect from a depot, and if a tube is crushed on the last leg nobody is sure who pays. A second supplier quotes shipping so high that the art becomes the most expensive freight on the project.

What we do. Shipping is free and fully insured on every order, anywhere in the world, by DHL, FedEx or USPS, with a tracking number sent as soon as a tranche ships. We ship to a consignee other than the buyer on request, so a tranche can go straight to your site office, your freight forwarder in the gateway city or your fit-out contractor; tell us at order stage. How far door-to-door courier service reaches for a specific island or lodge address is confirmed in your quote, not assumed on this page: give us the delivery address with the enquiry and we check it before we commit a date.

If a piece arrives damaged, the four steps are the ones on our logistics page: have the courier note the damage on the waybill where you can, photograph the packaging and the piece, send us the photos, and keep both until the claim closes. We handle the carrier claim and paint the replacement at no cost. Because it is painted from the same reference, the replacement matches the rest of the villa type.

What goes wrong. Resort art catalogues are full of the same turquoise wave and the same palm frond. Your designer has built a scheme around the actual lagoon colour, the local timber, the stone in the bathrooms and a specific linen, and the stock seascape fights all of it.

What we do. Any catalogue piece can be repainted in your palette: the Recolour route on /custom keeps the composition and takes the colour from your references. Send fabric cuttings photographed in daylight, paint codes, a photograph of the water from the villa deck, timber and stone samples or the scheme board, and the painter matches to them. You see progress photos or video at each stage and we only continue once you approve, so the colour is corrected on the easel, not after it has crossed an ocean. Screen colour is not canvas colour; that is what the sample and the stage photos are for.

The catalogue is deep where a resort needs it. Of the 365 works tagged for spa and wellness rooms, 141 are Floral & Botanical, 118 are Landscape and 72 are Seascape; 255 are tagged Peaceful and 184 Calming. Of the 681 guest-room works, 82 are Seascape and 288 Floral & Botanical. The 16 colour families let you start from the family nearest your scheme, blue and teal seascapes or sand, cream and white textured work, before any recolouring.

What goes wrong. Framed art is bulky, fragile and expensive to move over water. A resort that has a joinery contractor on site, or wants frames in the same timber as the villa doors and headboards, does not want 180 imported frames that arrive scuffed and do not match the joinery anyway.

What we do. Rolled canvas is a standard finish, not a special request. The painted canvas is rolled unstretched in a strong paper tube, and you arrange stretching and framing locally; on long-haul and large formats this is usually the cheaper route, and it lets your carpenter frame in the villa's own timber. Finish is chosen per piece within one order, so the villa run can travel rolled while the spa and arrival pieces arrive frameless stretched or framed, ready to hang at handover.

We describe only what the finish physically is and what you then do with it; we make no claims about how canvas behaves in humidity, salt air or sun, so specify any local treatment or glazing with your joiner.

What goes wrong. The owner sees the art for the first time when the crates are opened on the island. By then the only options are to hang it or to ship it back across an ocean. Suppliers who sell from stock cannot offer anything better, because the piece already exists.

What we do. Three checkpoints before a tranche ships. First, a sample: minimum order is one piece, so the owner can approve a single bedroom piece and a single pavilion piece painted at the real size and in the real palette before the run is committed. Second, stage approval: for every piece we send progress photos or video as the work progresses and continue only once you approve the stage, so composition and colour are signed off while the painting is on the easel. Third, the approved sample becomes the reference for the run, so the villa type reads as one set.

Every piece ships signed by the artist with a certificate of authenticity, one line per villa position for the owner's asset register. When the owner asks who painted it, the answer is a painter trained inside Siji Art Hub's exhibition programme in Foshan, not an anonymous print line. Hand-painted means each piece differs slightly from the sample; that is the reason to buy originals rather than prints, and it is worth saying to the owner in advance.

1. Brief. You send the villa-type schedule (types, count per type, positions per villa), the public-area list, the phase dates, the delivery address or consignee, finish per position and any palette references.
2. Quote. Within 1 business day you receive a quote per piece and per volume tier, with the courier reach for your address checked and each tranche's date committed in writing. There is no public price list; every programme is quoted.
3. Sample. One piece per villa position, painted at the agreed size and palette, shipped in 10–13 days; the owner approves against the physical scheme references.
4. Paint, tranche by tranche. About a week to paint per piece, with progress photos or video at each stage and your approval before we continue; the approved sample is the reference for the run.
5. Ship. Each tranche goes free and insured by DHL, FedEx or USPS with a tracking number on dispatch, to the consignee you named. Pieces in a tranche usually travel together; commissions and large formats are confirmed per piece.
6. Re-order. Later phases, replacements after damage in service and the next property are painted from the same references on request.

The 10–13 day figure is the door-to-door time for a single piece. A 200-piece programme is not painted in a week; it is scheduled by tranche against your phase dates, and those dates, not the single-piece figure, are what we commit to in writing. Place the sample order as soon as the scheme is fixed and the tranche order for each phase well before that phase's practical completion, keeping a buffer before soft opening for the public-area pieces that must hang on day one.

A resort quote is only as good as the schedule behind it. The list below is what turns a one-line enquiry into a committed programme; a spreadsheet or the art page of your FF&E schedule is ideal, but an email with the same content works.

• Villa types and counts: for example 60 beach villas and 30 over-water villas, and the art positions in each (bedroom headboard wall, living pavilion, bathroom).
• Public areas: arrival pavilion, spa treatment rooms and corridors, restaurant, beach club, with wall dimensions and ceiling height for anything over 2 m.
• Phase dates: the handover date for each villa phase and for the public areas, even if provisional; we commit per tranche and move with you if they change.
• Delivery address or consignee: the island or lodge address, or the forwarder or site office in the gateway city, so courier reach is checked before the quote goes out.
• Finish per position: rolled for local framing, frameless stretched, or framed in gold, silver, black, white or wood.
• Palette references: fabric, paint codes, stone and timber, a photograph of the water; and any catalogue codes you have already shortlisted.
• Whether a sample is wanted first: it usually is, and it carries no minimum.

Quotes go out within 1 business day. Use the request-a-quote form with the role set to Hospitality group, or attach the schedule to an email.

The cuts below are live counts from the 1,455-work catalogue, filtered to the room tags and moods a resort actually specifies. Each is a starting point, not a menu: any work in any cut can be resized to the wall, recoloured to the scheme or varied into a related set so the villa type reads as one family without repeating.

For villa bedrooms start with Seascape or Floral & Botanical tagged for guest rooms and suites, filtered to Peaceful or Calming. For bathrooms, Seascape is the leading theme in the catalogue's Bathroom tag, 55 of 121 works, which is unusual and useful when the bathroom opens onto a garden or the water. For the spa, Textured & Plaster in sand and cream leads at 112 of 365, with Impressionist and Contemporary Minimalist as quieter sub-selections. For the arrival pavilion and the beach club, the Lobby & Reception tag holds 95 panoramic works, and 177 catalogue works list sizes of 250 cm or more; anything can be painted larger.

Wabi-Sabi in the spa (20 works) and horizontal seascapes (24) are thin as filters and better handled as a Resize or Recolour of a vertical piece you like.