Amsterdam / Offices & team floors
How Dutch your walls look, and which team picks which painting, are your calls. We paint the whole series to one shared format.
Some firms moving within Amsterdam keep the fit-out in-house, as a property adviser does at The Pulse in Zuidas. If you are that in-house project manager, the art order can sit in your own schedule. Team leads in tech and multi-brand firms may also want a say in their own area. Your office may be a converted factory near Central Station, or a quiet client floor for a law or finance firm.
PaletteMomento is a hand-painting studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, China, supplying trade buyers worldwide, with delivery to Amsterdam. One painter paints each canvas on premium linen, with no printed base. Orders start at one painting, so one team’s panel can be quoted on its own while the other teams are still choosing. Each team sees daylight photos of its own finished panel, and the whole series ships once your named approver signs off.
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01 / Decide how Dutch it should look
You may want your office to feel like Amsterdam without a canal house or a tulip in every meeting room. One Dutch institution looked to its own design history instead. In January 2025 the central bank, De Nederlandsche Bank, returned to its renovated Frederiksplein head office, where colored wall panels draw on old guilder banknotes.
The cards below set out three other answers: two from published Amsterdam offices, and one from the Rijksmuseum’s open collection. We suggest choosing one for the whole office before anyone picks an image. Your answer becomes the pool that each team’s shortlist comes from in section 02.
Published example. In the Houthavens, a collective of 11 advertising-related agencies works from one building, with an interior completed in 2022. It pairs a calm timber and hemp palette with one bright red staircase. Its planted islands with paths can be read as water. Its hemp-finished walls refer to layers of sludge.
A painting direction. Abstract compositions of water, polder and sediment, in place of canal-house postcards. See our custom abstract paintings.
Published source. The Rijksmuseum shares many collection images as Public Domain or CC0, which its policy says can be used commercially without asking permission. Each item’s page shows whether any limits apply.
A painting direction. A painted interpretation of a 17th-century Dutch still life or landscape, at your own image size. Check the notice on the item’s page before you send it.
Published examples. A trading firm’s new office in The Pulse, Zuidas (2026), takes its calm, nature-based concept from the firm’s own name. A holiday-park company’s head office on Wibautstraat (2025) uses natural materials, earthy tones and greenery for a welcoming clubhouse feel.
A painting direction. Landscapes and nature subjects drawn from your company’s name, product or destinations. See our custom landscape paintings.
02 / Fix the format, then share out the panels
At one tech company’s Zuidas headquarters in Edge Stadium, opened in spring 2025 for 900 employees, each floor has a green “urban garden”. Each team’s neighborhood is designed so the team has maximum autonomy over how it looks and how it is used.
A multi-brand consumer goods group’s Amsterdam office (2024) answers the same question with a patchwork quilt. Multicolored carpet tiles and a layered fabric ceiling let each brand keep its own character under one roof. One Dutch art-rental firm also advises letting employees help choose office art.
Paintings can follow the same idea. Hold the format steady across the floor, and let each team’s canvas carry its own subject and palette.
Two paintings from our collection, both horizontal and both in a thin black frame. In a real series, both would also share one image size. Neither hangs in an Amsterdam office.
We suggest fixing three things for the whole series: the image size, the orientation and the frame. Each team or brand then picks its subject and palette from a shortlist drawn from your answer in section 01. A team that already has its own design can send it as the reference, and our paint your design page explains how.
One named approver signs off for every team. When the daylight photos of every finished canvas arrive, each team checks its own panel first. The approver then gives the final yes before anything ships. Team leads who want to see how a panel is made can read our painting process page before they choose.
Illustrative numbers only, not a real project.
03 / Set a starting palette for your kind of firm
Three published Amsterdam offices answered section 01’s question in three ways: through hospitality, through materials, or through the old building itself. Each answer leads to a different starting brief.
| Kind of firm and building | What the published office leaned on | A starting brief |
|---|---|---|
| Law firm in Strawinsky House | Hospitality. One international law firm’s office there (project 2024) takes a hotel-like approach, with soft geometries, warm materials and a restrained palette. Its workspaces are light, calm and subtly colored. | Your own world, kept quiet: calm, warm, low-contrast canvases for the workspaces, and one richer piece for the client areas. |
| Investment firm in the World Trade Center Amsterdam | Materials. One global investment company’s 2025 office uses walnut veneer, green marble, upholstered cabinet fronts and custom tiles. Together they bring warmth to a steel-and-glass building. | Deep greens and ochres, perhaps as abstract land and water, with a frame finish chosen to sit beside the walnut. Tell us the finish you want, and we confirm in the quote what we can do. |
| Green-energy company in a converted factory near Central Station | The building. A green-energy company’s head office (2022) sits in a former 1901 machine factory. It keeps the exposed steel columns on the ground floor and the wooden roof trusses under the pitched roof. | Let the building supply the history: larger, textured works that hold their own beside old steel and timber. |
Two other kinds of company appear earlier on this page. For a creative agency, the Houthavens interior in section 01 is the closer match. For a tech company with team neighborhoods, see section 02.
If your team wants tulips after all, or loud graphic color, we paint that to your brief.
04 / Find your window in the move calendar
Several firms have announced dated moves, and three of them show the windows an art order has to fit.
In two of these moves, the firm’s own people run the interior. At The Pulse, the property adviser’s in-house project team manages the fit-out. At Foppingadreef, the bank takes over the empty shell and designs the interior itself.
If your own team runs the fit-out, we suggest briefing its project manager early, so the art sits in the same schedule. Team leads still choose their own panels within the shared format.
In a move like Foppingadreef, the art goes up in the gap between shell handover, when the empty building is handed over, and move-in. We suggest putting the art on the fit-out program from the start, and telling us the date the floor can receive it.
05 / Quote the series team by team
If one team decides later than the others, we can quote its panel separately, in the same shared format. Delivery is planned around the date your floor can receive art.
06 / Local answers
Inside Amsterdam’s S100 ring road around the city center, vans first registered from 1 January 2025 may enter only if fully electric or hydrogen. Older fossil-fuel vans are being phased out: emission class 5 may enter until 1 January 2027, and class 6 until 1 January 2029. If your canvases travel rolled and a local framer stretches them, ask the framer or installer to confirm their van is allowed.
Yes: a painted interpretation of a Rijksmuseum still life can take on your team’s palette and be cropped to the series’ shared format. For example, one team may keep a flower still life’s composition but move it into the blues and greens of its own area. Tell us which parts should stay close to the original and which can change. Not every item is free to use: some carry a credit requirement and some are not freely available, so check each item’s notice first.
In a hybrid Amsterdam office, we suggest hanging each team’s panel at that team’s home base, where it meets on its office days. The city’s 2026 office strategy notes that, with hybrid work, only part of the desks are used on an average office day. Mark each team’s home base on the floor plan you send, so each panel is listed against the wall it will hang on.
Yes, a second round for team floors can follow once your teams have settled into the Zuidas building. When one bank opened its hybrid-timber CubeHouse head office in Zuidas in May 2026, it brought colleagues from six businesses under one roof. Teams that have just merged may only know what they want on their walls after some months together. Keep the artwork codes and approved references from the first round, so new panels can follow the same format. Hand-painted repeats match closely but never exactly, so a repeated design in round two will be its own painting.
They can, so we suggest fixing a Zuidas delivery day only after checking the Gustav Mahlerlaan access notices and other closures on the Zuidas live disruption page. The Zuidas project organization warns of large-scale disruption in 2026 from rebuilding Amsterdam Zuid station and the De Nieuwe Meer junction. The Zuidasdok works continue beyond 2026, so we suggest leaving some slack around the delivery day for later moves too.
How Dutch, and who picks
Name the teams that will choose, and the date your floor can receive art.
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.
support@palettemomento.comOr send your schedule and images through our quote form.