The environment a hotel is known by

We start with the concept: three distinct directions to choose between. A signature piece in the lobby, a light installation, an art installation suspended above the reception desk, a piece on the terrace or at the entrance. We follow the hospitality industry closely and know which pieces hotels have already been through and moved on from. The guest sees the entrance and the lobby first and reads the whole hotel through them, which is why the artistic layer of these zones stays the most underrated line in the budget. The concept takes a week and shows the idea before the money goes into the project.

Most of the piece is built in the workshop. A finished assembly arrives on site, and the time spent working inside the building comes down to a few shifts. Noisy operations stay in the workshop entirely. Installation runs zone by zone, in hours agreed with the hotel: the zone closes, the work is done, the zone reopens. The hotel stays open throughout.

A material specification with reaction-to-fire classification and a check on proximity to escape routes are part of the engineering package, completed before fabrication starts. The hotel receives a documentation set, and the operations team accepts the piece against it. The question is closed on paper before the piece appears in the building.

We work with hotels, shopping centres and urban spaces, always places with high footfall and constant load. Materials and finishes are set for that regime from the start: 316L stainless steel, cast acrylic, Corten steel, powder coating, toughened glass. The piece joins the normal cleaning schedule alongside the lobby and the windows, and it creates no separate cost line. A composition of seven mirror-polished sculptures, 1.7 to 4.8 m tall, has stood on a city square in front of the Radisson Collection since 2021, and a basic wash has been all the servicing it needed.

We do both. At design stage the fixings, the services and the loads go into the building structure, and the piece never calls for opening up finished floor slabs. In a hotel that is already open we look for the move that delivers the most for the least building work: refreshing the arrival zone and the lobby changes how the property is read, and the guest rooms stay untouched.

Yes. Heritage buildings are part of what we design for. In our project 'Beneath a 19th-century vault' a suspended composition entered a historic gallery with zero intervention in the architecture: the solution is fully reversible and the fixings come away without a trace. The piece is designed from the building's existing points, and its make-up is fixed before fabrication.