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Paris Office Paintings Planned Around What Staff Prefer
Paris office staff have said what they like on the wall. We paint to that, or to your own brief.
Perhaps you lead HR or the workplace team and must show management why art deserves its own budget. Your law or finance firm may be moving within the 8e or 17e as a lease from 2017 or 2018 ends. A growing tech company may be leaving its first start-up office, or a team may be taking floors in a La Défense tower. Or your firm may be delivering the fit-out or the workplace design, with a few months to finish the whole floor.
PaletteMomento is a hand-painting studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, China, supplying trade buyers worldwide, with delivery to Paris. One painter takes each canvas from the first marks to the last, on premium linen with no printed base. Orders start at one painting, so your reception piece can be quoted on its own. The person who signs off the art budget sees daylight photos of every finished canvas, reception piece included, before we ship.
Our fastest way to discuss your schedule and price. The written quote follows by email for your records. WhatsApp: usually an immediate reply. Email: usually within 12 hours. Monday–Sunday.
Water lilies in thick palette-knife paint, from our painting collection and painted to the width and height you set. In a 2024 image test, Ile-de-France office staff preferred a workspace hung with Monet and Van Gogh to one hung with four modern artists.
01 / Split the art budget
Spend first on the reception hall Paris staff named most often
In 2024, the property company SFL and the polling institute Ifop asked office employees across Ile-de-France what they want from their workplace. Three of the answers bear directly on an art budget.
The Paris Workplace 2024 study
1,300 Ile-de-France office employees, surveyed online from June 6 to 17, 2024. The results were published in November 2024.
44%named a beautiful reception hall when asked what makes an office building beautiful. It was the most common answer. 54%would choose a workplace with a hotel-style look and layout. Only about a quarter picked a home-style one. 87%said it matters that a company spends money on decorating its offices.
Give the reception wall the largest single piece
With a limited budget, the survey points to the space staff most often linked with a beautiful building: the reception hall. We suggest the largest single canvas goes to the reception wall, briefed the way a hotel briefs its lobby. That means one strong subject, sized to the measured wall. Meeting rooms and lounges can then take curated works in one consistent frame. It also fits the hotel-style look and layout that 54% of respondents said they would choose for their workplace.
02 / Choose a style for staff floors
Impressionist-leaning staff floors, with modern work as a deliberate choice
The same study ran an image test. Employees saw one workspace hung first with 19th-century masters, then with modern works by Kandinsky, Miró, Basquiat and Haring. They preferred Monet and Van Gogh. The pictures were mostly made with AI, so this was a test of images, not a real office.
So for open-plan floors, the canteen and the corridors, we suggest starting from impressionist-leaning landscapes and florals. We paint them as original work in an impressionist manner, from your references. Our custom landscape paintings page has more examples.
Bold abstract work is a deliberate choice, and a fine one when your company wants it. Our custom abstract paintings page shows that kind of work. The survey also found that start-up-style offices still feel creative to staff, but their look now seems dated. A growing tech company may prefer calmer, gallery-like canvases to playful graphics.
Whichever style you choose, your team compares the daylight photos of every finished canvas with its reference before anything ships. You can follow the steps behind each canvas on our how we paint page.
01 / Staff floorsA wheat field under a moving sky, in the impressionist-leaning style.02 / A deliberate modern choiceA bold wave of color, for a company that wants it.
The survey’s two directions, as canvases from our collection. Neither is an installed office project.
03 / Follow the staff preference, or depart from it
From a Champs-Élysées bank to a La Défense tower: how far each Paris office follows what staff prefer
Staff preferences give a starting style. Each published Paris office below is a different kind of company, and each shows how far its walls might follow that preference.
An investment bank on the Champs-Élysées
One investment bank’s 2024 office on the Champs-Élysées holds about 160 people. Its design moved away from the firm’s traditional blue branding. The finishes became a neutral palette of walnut, quartz and patterned carpet.
A Haussmann floor in the 17e and a former post office in the 1er
A restaurant-software company’s 500 m² office in a Haussmann building in the 17e (2023) uses jute, bamboo and plants. Rugs and subtle touches of color give it an at-home feel. A games company’s head office in the Poste du Louvre building, in the 1er, was completed in 2021. Its design is based on wabi-sabi, with raw, natural materials and natural colors.
A home-services company in Montmartre
A home-services company’s office of more than 1,300 m² in Montmartre pairs brightly colored walls and window surrounds with brick walls and parquet. The walls already carry strong color before any art goes up.
A founder-led fashion house in the 8e
One fashion house’s office in the 8e, published in 2024, uses soft curves and soft tones. The works on its walls were chosen by its founder.
A tower floor among La Défense’s outdoor artworks
Paris La Défense calls the district an open-air museum, with more than 60 contemporary artworks free to view. In the survey’s facade test, towers scored 6.6 out of 10 among La Défense workers and 6.0 across all respondents.
If your Haussmann office wants a bold modern canvas after all, or your founder has a reference in mind, that is the painting we make. Any other direction starts from your brief, and the quote confirms what we can paint.
04 / Local rules and rival options
The Paris facts behind an office art order
How do paintings reach an office tower at La Défense?
Paris La Défense asks professionals to request delivery access to private buildings through its Guichet Pro platform. The towers take deliveries from service roads under the pedestrian slab. So please send the tower’s delivery level and entrance, not only the street address. Ask your building manager who files the access request. The covered roads were under modernization works planned from 2024 to mid-2026, so check the current access with the building.
One Paris art-rental firm asks for at least five paintings. Can we order fewer?
Yes: our orders start at one painting that your company keeps, while one firm renting art to Paris offices asks for at least five per rental. That firm also asks for at least two rotations a year.
Our landlord signed the “1 immeuble, 1 œuvre” charter. Does it cover art for our floors?
Not directly: the French “1 immeuble, 1 œuvre” charter covers the signatories’ building programs, so art for your own floors is a separate brief. Since December 2015, signatories have pledged to commission or buy a living artist’s work for those programs. By 2025, 96 property companies had signed, and nearly 1,000 works had been installed. Ask your landlord whether your building has a charter work, and where it hangs. If it hangs in the lobby, mention it to us, so your reception piece does not repeat its subject.
When should a Paris company moving at a lease expiry order its office art?
At the design stage, because some published Paris fit-outs were short: one office of more than 1,300 m² took two months, and a seven-floor headquarters took eight. A property adviser expected 2026 to be busier, as many Paris leases signed in 2017 and 2018 expire. Office take-up in Ile-de-France was still down 5% in the first half of 2026, so that busier year is a forecast, not a fact. If your date is tight, you can ask for rush production, and we confirm what is feasible for your order.
Our Paris office is refitted every few years. Will commissioned paintings still fit?
They can, if you choose canvases that move with the team: in 2024, 38% of Ile-de-France office staff said their offices had been refitted in the past two years. Paintings your company owns go with you into each new layout. Away from the reception, we suggest sizes that would suit more than one wall, rather than a canvas cut to one narrow niche. If a refit is already planned, mention it in your brief.
Should a Paris law firm’s team floors look like its client rooms?
Not necessarily: in the Paris Workplace 2024 image test, Ile-de-France employees ranked the traditional “law firm” office style second for looks, but rated it poorly, especially for teamwork. That was a picture of an office type, not a survey of real law firms. We suggest keeping client rooms formal and giving team spaces warmer, livelier canvases. For example, team floors could take sunlit landscapes while client rooms keep quiet tonal work.
05 / What we quote from
A Paris office quote built around the reception wall
The reception piece can be its own line in a Paris office quote, so your budget meeting can see what that space will cost.
The building (Haussmann, contemporary or tower), its arrondissement or La Défense, and the kind of company
The reception wall’s measured size, and the role you want the piece to play
The staff floors, canteen and meeting rooms: impressionist-leaning, or a deliberate modern choice
Reference images, the image width and height, and the quantity of each design
The end of the fit-out or the move date, and rolled, stretched or framed
The delivery address; at La Défense, the tower’s delivery level as well as the street address
Studio order & delivery terms
Made by hand
Painted directly on premium linen, with no printed base. Acrylic is standard; oil is available on request. One painter takes each canvas from the first marks to the last.
One piece or a collection
Orders start at one painting, with quantity tiers from 6 and 21 pieces. Mixed designs count together. A sample is a separate single-piece order, priced on its own and not credited against a later order.
Rolled, stretched or framed
You choose the image width and height. Suitable rolled work includes an extra 5 cm of blank canvas on every side for stretching or framing. Please mention a larger allowance before production. Heavy texture should travel stretched or framed.
A complete delivery quote
Your quote sets out the artwork, presentation and delivery charges. We work with more than 200 logistics partners to compare express and sea options. Most destinations are served on DDP terms, with exceptions where local customs rules require another arrangement. The quote states the delivery terms for France.
Time for each stage
Painting, your review, transport and any local framing are separate stages. Rush production can be requested, and we confirm a feasible date for the actual order.
Payment
Usually a 50% deposit, with the balance after final approval and before shipping.
From the reception wall to the canteen
A reception piece your visitors notice, and staff floors your team enjoys
In the Paris survey, staff preferred the 19th-century masters, but the style on your walls is still your company’s choice.
Our fastest way to discuss your schedule and price. The written quote follows by email for your records. WhatsApp: usually an immediate reply. Email: usually within 12 hours. Monday–Sunday.
