HOTEL ART PHOTOGRAPHIC DECORATION

What types of photography work best for hotel photographs ? It varies by area of the hotel, but some common sense guidelines here include:

Lobbies and waiting areas.

These are areas where more interesting art should be hung. The hotel art displayed here should be colorful, attention grabbing hotel images that distract the viewer in pleasant ways to minimize the natural impatience of standing in line, wrestling with bags, and waiting for colleagues.

Hotel Rooms and suites.

Hotel rooms and suites function primarily as a respite. Especially in traditional hotel rooms where there is basically a sleeping room and a bath, the hotel art most appropriately includes images that remind the traveler of home-like environs, and hearken the viewer back to a events and places that are likely to evoke pleasant memories. Hotel photographs of nature and landscape photography can be rewarding when the hotel images are pastoral, and sunsets are almost always attractive to viewers seeking solace. Especially in tropical climbs, moonlit palm trees waving over the ocean shoreline are a great example. Often hotels strive to include images of local landmarks and attractions.

Hallways and foyers.

Hallways and foyers rarely afford more than a passing glance at hotel art and hotel photographs, and hence are most appropriately treated with simple and uncomplicated hotel images. Hotel management should not spend much of the furnishings budget here, but rather shift their attention and resources to more prominent areas. Suggested hotel images for halls and foyers include images that reflect leaves and foliage in fall colors, waterfalls, and occasional portraiture.

Restaurants and bars.

Restaurants and bars are most successfully decorated with images that are colorful, lively reflections of life and living. Event photography works well in these settings, especially in bars. Sports photos, construction photos, transportation photos, and hotel images of high adventure and exploration work well for the hotel photographs. Adventure is a key theme for these environs. With restaurants, hotel art often reflects the cuisine favored by the establishment. Italian restaurants utilize Tuscan imagery, while Asian restaurants often display water-born junks and pagodas. In these settings, it is often important to reinforce the interest that the chef is attempting to create around the food. Images of corn still on the cob can be rendered quite beautifully, for example, and softer representations of prepared foods such as breads and cheeses can be displayed in ways that actually reinforce the hunger pangs of patrons.

Meeting rooms, conference rooms and ballrooms.

Meeting rooms are typically places of business, and as such they deserve compelling artwork. While the hotel photographs should not be so bold as to compete with speakers and event themes, they should be broadly inspirational without too much complexity. Subtle inspiration and acclamation of greatness is the desired goal here. Kayaks in white water, Lewis and Clark type exploration, Lighthouses beaconing to ships struggling against a storm, these are the types of images of hotel art that often work well.