Two or three pieces per unit type that read as a home, repeated across every unit, then re-ordered for the next city

This page is for the design, brand or FF&E lead at a serviced-apartment or aparthotel operator, an extended-stay brand, a corporate-housing provider, or a short-term rental portfolio manager, and for the interior designer or procurement agent working for them. What you have in common is the unit type: a studio, one-bed or two-bed plan repeated tens or hundreds of times, each one needing two or three coordinated pieces across living, sleeping and kitchen-dining walls, specified once and bought centrally. Most of you also have a lobby and a co-working or breakfast lounge, and many of you open in more than one city or country and re-order the same specification years apart.

The brief differs from a hotel in one way that matters for art: a hotel room takes one piece above the bed and asks for calm; a unit takes a set that has to read as a home someone could live in for a month. It differs from build-to-rent in another: the pieces here are furniture, not amenity, and the per-unit count is higher.

• Rental towers with corridors, lift lobbies and amenity floors on a lease-up date: see build-to-rent & multifamily.
• Hotel guest rooms to a brand standard, one piece per key: see hotel guest-room programmes.
• Temporary inventory that moves between listings: see home stagers.

What goes wrong. Hotel art suppliers sell one calm piece per room, so the living wall, the bedroom and the kitchen-dining wall end up with three unrelated prints, or three copies of the same one. Residential art suppliers sell single pieces to single homes and cannot repeat a set 160 times. Either way the unit photographs like a hotel room with a kitchen in it.

What we do. We specify by unit type, not by piece. Every work in the catalogue is tagged for both a commercial and a residential room, and 291 works carry both the Guest Room & Suite and the Living Room tag, which is the exact crossover a short-stay unit sits in: hospitality durability of mood, domestic scale and subject. From that pool and its neighbours, Living Room (855 works), Bedroom (457) and Dining Room (337), we build one set per unit type: a living-wall piece, a bedroom piece and, where the plan has a dining wall, a horizontal for it. The three are chosen to share a palette and a hand, so the unit reads as one household's choice.

Then the set is painted as many times as you have units of that type, using the Vary route from /custom: a family of related originals off each source work, so unit 214 and unit 215 are plainly siblings without being copies. Because nothing is printed, the variation is part of the brief rather than a separate service; you decide how far apart the siblings sit, from a palette shift per floor to a different crop per unit.

What goes wrong. A brand standard is written once and rolled out for years, but stock art is discontinued between openings. The second building gets the nearest available substitute, the third gets a different one again, and the brand book's art page stops being true after the first property.

What we do. Nothing here is stock, so nothing is discontinued. A unit-type set is recorded as a specification: catalogue code per position, the agreed size in centimetres and inches, the colourway (your own palette references if the piece was recoloured), the variation rule and the finish. When the next building opens you send the record and the unit count, and the same set is painted again, by hand, to the same specification. The catalogue is 1,455 works today and every one of them is painted to order, so a code you used in one city is available in the next.

Two honest notes. First, a hand-painted piece re-painted two years later is a new original by the same specification, not a print of the first; it will sit beside its predecessor as a sibling. Second, if the brand palette moves between openings, the Recolour route repaints the same composition in the new palette, so the second property reads as a relative of the first rather than a clone or a stranger. Each re-order is quoted as its own project, with volume pricing from ten pieces, and its delivery dates are committed in writing.

What goes wrong. Central purchasing means one buyer, one purchase order and one brand standard, but the buildings are in different countries. Most suppliers ship to the billing address only, so the buyer's office becomes a freight forwarder, or each site places its own order and the volume tier is lost.

What we do. Third-party delivery is standard: we ship to a different country or recipient than the buyer, and to more than one, when you tell us at order stage. One purchase order can carry the full quantity across sites, with the pieces batched per site and per unit type and delivered to the site, the fit-out contractor or a local store as you direct. Shipping is free on every order, worldwide, fully insured, by DHL, FedEx or USPS, with tracking on dispatch, and every piece travels signed by the artist with its certificate of authenticity packed with it.

Because the whole order is quoted as one project, the volume tier is calculated on the total, not on each site's share. Send the site list with the enquiry: building address, consignee and contact per site, and the date each site needs its pieces, and the quotation returns a delivery date per site, committed in writing, with the batches sequenced to the openings rather than to the order date.

What goes wrong. Framing is where a multi-site programme drifts. One site's framer uses a different profile, one uses glass and one does not, and the same set looks like three suppliers' work. Glazed frames also break in a unit that turns over weekly, which is why short-stay operators are advised to avoid glass and to hold one framing standard across a portfolio ¹².

What we do. You fix one finish in the specification and every piece in every building ships that way. There are three:

• Frameless stretched. Canvas on stretcher bars, ready to hang, no frame and no glass. The usual choice for units: nothing to shatter, nothing to match to joinery, and a fit-out team can hang a floor in an afternoon.
• Framed. Stretched canvas in a gold, silver, black, white or wood frame, boxed with hanging hooks supplied. Choose it when the brand book specifies a frame; the finish is then written into the record and repeats identically at the next opening.
• Rolled canvas. Unstretched in a strong tube, for your fit-out contractor or local framer to stretch to their own profile. Usually the cheaper route on long-haul lanes and for the large lobby piece, at the cost of a framer in the programme at every site.

Finish is chosen per piece within one order, so units can be frameless stretched while the lobby panoramic ships rolled and the lounge pieces are framed black. Whatever the choice, it is recorded with the set and re-ordered with it.

The single-piece lead time is 10–13 days door to door: about a week to paint, then 3–7 days in transit. A whole-building package runs as a sequence of those, planned against your opening dates.

1. Brief. Send the unit types and counts, the positions per unit (living wall, bedroom, dining wall), the lobby and lounge, the brand palette or a mood board, the finish, and the site list with dates.
2. Quote within 1 business day. One quotation for the package: codes per position, agreed sizes, variation rule, finish, volume pricing on the total, and a delivery date per site committed in writing.
3. Sample set. Minimum order is one piece, so a full set for one unit type is painted first, at real size and finish, in 10–13 days. Hang it in the mock-up unit, photograph it, sign it off or send corrections.
4. Painting with stage approval. Each piece is painted to order. You receive progress photos or video at each stage and the painter continues only once you have approved; on a 250-piece package you nominate one approver and a substitute so nothing stalls.
5. Batches by site and unit type. Pieces are finished, signed, packed with their certificates and shipped in the batches the quotation set out, free and insured, by DHL, FedEx or USPS, with tracking.
6. The record. After delivery you hold the specification per unit type, code by code, which is what you send when the next building opens.

A complete brief gets a complete quote in one business day and removes the clarification round. For a serviced-apartment or aparthotel programme the useful items are:

1. Unit types and counts. Studio, one-bed, two-bed, with the number of each, and the positions per type: living wall, bedroom, dining or kitchen wall, hallway. A typical unit plan with the art walls marked does this in one file.
2. Wall dimensions per position. Width and height, and what sits below (sofa width, bed and headboard width, dining table length), so each piece is sized to the wall rather than picked from a grid. Any size can be painted; the catalogue sizes are precedents.
3. Palette. The brand palette, paint codes, fabric or timber references photographed in daylight, or a mood board. Recolouring to it is part of the order, not a separate service.
4. Starting points. Catalogue codes if you have browsed, or the style and mood in words and we shortlist a set per unit type.
5. Finish. Frameless stretched, framed (gold, silver, black, white or wood) or rolled, per position.
6. Sites and dates. Address, consignee and contact per building, and the date each needs its pieces on site.
7. Public areas. Lobby and lounge wall dimensions, if they are in this order.

Send it through the quote form with the role set to Hospitality group, or attach a schedule if you already have one; we return the quotation per unit type and per site so it drops into your FF&E schedule as it stands.

All 1,455 works carry both a commercial and a residential room tag, so every piece below is one a unit can take. The slices that matter for a short-stay package, with live counts:

• Living wall. Living Room holds 855 works; 199 are tagged Peaceful and 95 Calming, the register that reads as home to a guest arriving at eleven at night. Contemporary Minimalist (51) and Textured & Plaster (147) carry a neutral brand palette without competing with the sofa fabric.
• Bedroom. Bedroom holds 457 works, 354 of them Peaceful or Calming, with Floral & Botanical (201) and Landscape (132) the leading subjects.
• Kitchen-dining wall. This is the wall most suppliers cannot fill, because it wants a horizontal above a table or a bench. Dining Room holds 337 works, of which 84 are horizontal and 64 panoramic; Living Room adds 103 horizontals. Still Life (58) and Cozy & warm (118) suit the position.
• Bathroom, as the optional third piece. 121 works, and it is the only room where Seascape leads (55).
• Co-working or breakfast lounge. Workspace & Office holds 232 works and is Geometric-led (110), a distinct register from the units.
• Lobby. Lobby & Reception holds 557 works, 95 of them panoramic for the reception wall.

One honesty note: the catalogue is about three-quarters vertical as painted (1,069 works), with 118 horizontals and 106 panoramics. Any vertical composition can be painted as a horizontal through the Resize route, with proportions adjusted by the painter rather than stretched, but if you want to choose horizontals as catalogued, the dining and living slices above are where they are.

A host or property manager running three to a hundred short-stay units buys the same thing as an aparthotel, a set per unit type, without a designer, in smaller lots and over time. Guides written for hosts say the same things this page does: put the money into the living room and the main bedroom first, size the piece to the furniture below it, avoid glass, and hold one palette and one framing standard across the portfolio ¹². Four things are specific to you.

• Small numbers. Minimum order is one piece; volume pricing starts at ten. A set of three for four units is twelve pieces and already inside the tier. Every enquiry is quoted within one business day.
• Sizing to the sofa and the headboard. Send the sofa width and the bed width and we size to them. Above a standard three-seat sofa, 122 × 91 cm (48 × 36 in) or 137 × 91 cm (54 × 36 in) is the usual living-wall size; 81 × 61 cm (32 × 24 in) suits a double headboard wall.
• No glass. Frameless stretched canvas has nothing to shatter; framed pieces ship boxed with hooks. Both arrive ready to hang.
• Adding units later. The set is on record by code, size and colourway; when six more units open, the same set is painted again. Because each is a signed original with a certificate, the listing can say original art and mean it.

We make no claim about booking rates or occupancy; the two guides above are cited for what hosts are advised to buy, not for results.

A programme buyer trusts the supplier that states its limits before being asked. These are ours.

• No stock, no prints. Every piece is painted for the order, so nothing ships tomorrow. The shortest path is 10–13 days for one piece; a building is a sequence of batches planned against your dates and committed in writing.
• Hand-painted means variation. A hundred and twenty studio pieces from one specification are a hundred and twenty originals that differ in brushwork. That is the point of the Vary route; if you need identical images, a print supplier is the right answer.
• Re-orders are new originals. The set painted for the second city follows the first city's record, code, size, colourway and finish, but each piece is a fresh painting, not a reproduction of the first.
• The catalogue is mostly vertical. 118 horizontals and 106 panoramics as catalogued; a horizontal for a dining wall is either one of those or a vertical composition re-proportioned by the painter.
• No durability, wipe-clean or fire certification. We do not certify canvas or frames for flame spread or for cleaning regimes. If your specification requires it, raise it before it is written in.
• No public prices. Every enquiry, from one sample set to four hundred units across three countries, is quoted within one business day.