A long engagement reviewing a hotel group's art holdings across three properties and shaping a clearer approach to display and rotation.
The group's collection had grown over decades without a current overview. They wanted to understand its strengths, identify gaps, and develop a thoughtful rotation policy across guest and public areas.
A clearer collection identity and a sustainable framework for displaying and lending works.
Foinse curates art to shape the feel of a space. Each placement below answers a specific question the room was asking — a dwell point, a sense of movement, a quiet wall that rewarded close looking.
A busy, mixed-use lobby with check-in, a bar, and circulation to the lifts. The existing collection felt accumulated rather than chosen.
A single large oil landscape, rehung to face the entrance.
Acts as a dwell point in a space designed for movement. Gives arriving guests something to look at while they wait — and a piece they remember after they leave.
Long upper-floor corridors that previously carried generic decorative prints. The brief was to give each floor a quiet identity of its own.
Watercolour studies of local coast and harbour, one work per door bay.
Conveys place without leaning on signage. Guests describe the corridors as 'easy to walk' — which, in a hotel, is the work doing its job.
A high-ceilinged dining room with strong evening light. The brief avoided any work that would dominate the room or fight with the menu.
A pair of charcoal portrait studies, hung asymmetrically on the long wall.
Gives the room subject without imposing mood. Reads beautifully under low evening light and recedes politely during service.
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