Luxury Hotel Art

No, and this is the real limit of buying originals for a hotel. Every piece is one of a kind, so two rooms cannot hold the same painting. What we do instead is group works by the same artist, or by palette and size, so a floor feels related while each room holds something unique. Tell us the room count early and we will plan the grouping around it.

Send us photographs and we will tell you honestly whether it can be repaired, roughly what that costs, or whether the piece is finished. We are a gallery, not a restoration studio, so a serious tear goes to a conservator. Small knocks on a canvas surface are often fixable. Damage is not covered by the Lifetime Trade-Back, which requires the work to come back in good condition.

We ship anywhere we can insure the parcel, though our regular routes are Canada, about 3 to 7 business days, and the USA, about 5 to 10. Shipping on both is free and fully insured. For a hotel order going further, ask us before you commit, because we quote the freight and the export paperwork case by case instead of promising a date we cannot hold.

The same 14 days apply, and we pay return shipping if pieces come back. For a multi-room order we would rather send two or three sample works first, so you can hang them in a finished room and confirm the look before the rest ships. That avoids crating twenty paintings back to Vancouver. Give us your install date and we will build the delivery schedule around it.

Pick two artists rather than one, and vary the size hard. A floor reads as curated when the same two hands appear at different scales, for example a large piece at the lift lobby and smaller works inside the rooms. Painters like Phaedra, Nahira and Roshan each have enough range to carry that. Send us the floor plan and we will shortlist against it for free.

We can get you close, though never identical, because the original will be sold and cannot be repeated. Every sold piece stays online permanently in our archive, so send us that page and we will match the artist, size and palette with current work. Keeping sold pieces online also means a hotel can document a whole collection years later from the same links.

Five-star art is original, attributed to a named artist, sized correctly for its wall, and lit on purpose. Those four things separate a luxury property from a good one far more than the price of any single piece. A $900 original under a proper picture light reads better than a $4,000 canvas hung too high in the dark.

A suite art allowance of $2,000 to $8,000 is normal at the five-star level, covering three to six original works across the living area, bedroom, and entry hall. Signature and presidential suites go well beyond that. The useful rule is to spend per suite what you would spend on ten standard rooms, and buy fewer, larger, better pieces.

Yes, suite art should be larger, because suite walls are longer and the ceilings are usually higher, so a piece sized for a standard room looks lost. In a suite living area, plan on 150 to 200 cm (60 to 79 inches) on the long side for the main work, then one medium piece per secondary wall.

Give each floor one subject or palette so a returning guest learns the building: water on three, forest on four, city light on five. Lift lobbies carry the largest piece and set the theme, corridors carry smaller work in the same family, and rooms stay quiet. It also solves a practical problem, because staff and guests can describe where they are.

Dust the surface with a dry, soft brush every few months, keep paintings off the wall shared with a bathroom, and tell housekeeping never to use spray cleaner near a canvas. Oil and acrylic both dislike steam and direct sun. If a piece gets scuffed, message us with a photo, because small surface repairs are usually simple and we will advise.

Yes, each work ships with a Certificate of Authenticity, and we keep a permanent record of the artist, title, year, and original sale so ownership can be traced later. That record travels with the asset if the property changes hands. Our Lifetime Trade-Back stays attached to the piece too, so it can be returned for store credit toward a refurbishment.

Skip originals in rooms where the art sits within arm's reach of a bath, a kettle, or a minibar, and in any room the property rents out for events. Steam, splashes, and crowds ruin canvases. Put originals on the bedroom and living walls, use framed works behind glass in wet zones, and accept that some walls should stay bare.