Almost every hotel ceiling is left white. I create original artwork for that fifth wall, made exclusively for your property, so guests feel something the moment they look up.
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Each collection is painted for one property and stays with that property.
Artwork created for your property alone, so the ceiling becomes part of your identity.
A small family of designs that rotates across room types, so the room next door feels like its own discovery.
Color and composition built around your design firm's palette, so the ceiling belongs to the room.
Final art prepared for large-format printing, coordinated with a production vendor and installed by your team.
You see the ceiling installed before you commit to the whole property.
Your brand, your guests, and how you want people to feel when they walk into the room.
Original ceiling artwork developed to sit inside your design firm's palette and plans.
One room installed first, so you can stand under it, live with it, and get feedback.
Final art goes to production for printing, and your installer brings it into every room.
Concept rendering, shown for illustration.
Your interior design firm owns the overall scheme, the furniture, and the lighting plan. I deliver the ceiling art, made to fit what they've designed, and I'm easy to fold into an existing project.
Bold color is a choice I make on purpose, informed by three separate bodies of work.
Terrapin Bright Green's 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design includes refuge, the comfort of being sheltered with cover overhead. The ceiling is already shaping how a room feels to the body, whether anyone designs it or not.
Frank Mahnke's work on color and human response describes how ceiling color shifts whether a room feels heavy, open, or lifted. That's why I choose overhead color deliberately and never default to white.
Ingrid Fetell Lee names transcendence, the feeling of elevation we get from looking upward, as one of her ten aesthetics of joy. My job is to make that upward glance worth it.
My first job out of culinary school was on the rooftop at the Union Square Park Hotel. I went on to train at Hillstone, work at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, and spend seven years at Blue Apron designing meals and products around every step of the customer experience.
What stuck with me is that guests remember how a place made them feel. Today I'm a working artist, and I put that same attention to the guest into the room itself.
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Tell me about the property and the feeling you want guests to have. I'll come back with ideas for what could be happening overhead.
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