Can a small tenant in a Barcelona plug-and-work suite order just one painting?

Yes: a tenant in a Barcelona plug-and-work suite can start with one painting, but the suite may already come with the landlord’s art. Ask which pieces stay and which walls are free, then send us that wall’s size.

Our 22@ floor is in a refurbished building, not a new one. Which brief fits it?

In 22@, a refurbished floor can take the same approach as a center building: let the rooms as they are now set the brief. Refurbishment is not rare there. In one property adviser’s pipeline for late 2026 and 2027, refurbishments make up about 36% of the planned 22@ space, close to 20,000 square meters. If the floor looks new inside, the city-inspired palette still fits. If older finishes remain, we suggest colors picked against them.

We also want a signature piece by a Barcelona artist. Can it hang alongside commissioned paintings?

Yes: at Barcelona Gallery Weekend in September 2026, companies, foundations and private collections committed to buying works from participating galleries through its acquisitions program. One organization rooted in law joined that program for the first time. A gallery piece bought this way is a separate purchase from the gallery. The canvases you commission from us still follow your own buyer and approver, as section 02 sets out.

Can a new office in the Barcelona area match the art in our other buildings?

Yes: a pharma group’s new 3,100 square meter offices in Sant Feliu de Llobregat (2025) kept a look consistent with the group’s other buildings, its designers say. We can paint the new pieces to the same palette and format. Send photos, sizes and any artwork codes of the paintings at your other sites.

How do we check that a large series for a 22@ head office is consistent?

In a 22@ head office the size of the 8,000 square meter Illacuna space one HR-software company chose in 2025, sort the finished-canvas photos by design. Compare each repeat with its approved reference. Repeats of one design match closely but never exactly, so judge them as a set. Photos and short videos also arrive as the painting goes.

Hand-Painted Barcelona Office Art

01 / Name your building

22@ floors can take colors inspired by the city, while center buildings bring their own history

Barcelona’s two biggest office areas are close in size. Barcelona City Council figures for late 2025 put the prime business district and 22@ at about 1.6 million square meters of offices each. They are growing in different ways, and that changes where your art brief begins.

In 2025, leasing leaned hard toward 22@. The district took 137,000 square meters of offices, or 43% of all office space leased in Barcelona. That comes from Cushman & Wakefield data published by Barcelona City Council in April 2026. Almost all of it, 98%, was in Grade A or B+ buildings, the top grades of office space.

The center renews its offices instead. One property adviser’s pipeline for late 2026 and 2027 lists five projects in its city-center submarket, about 20,000 square meters in all. Every one of them is a refurbishment, which the adviser links to the lack of free land in established areas. In 22@, most planned space is new-build, though some of it is refurbishment.

Canvas in a thin black frame of abstract coral, turquoise and gold flowers, built up in thick palette-knife paint — From our painting collection: coral, turquoise and gold, the terracotta-to-aquamarine range taken into abstraction. We paint it at the width and height you choose.

On a new 22@ floor, the city can inspire the palette

22@ draws more than its share of new tech and creative companies. In 2025 it held 6.8% of Barcelona’s new companies, but 10.7% of new information and communications firms. It also held 10.6% of new arts, entertainment and recreation firms, Barcelona City Council reports. A property adviser adds that tech and professional-services firms keep expanding in Barcelona, with a strong commitment to 22@. So a software team and a consulting firm may both be planning floors in the same district.

One tech company’s office in the Entegra building, in the city’s technology district, uses colors its designers say were inspired by Barcelona. They name terracotta, sky blue, aquamarine and other blues, in two phases published in April 2025 and March 2026. It is one small office, so treat it as a starting point, not a district style. Our custom Mediterranean paintings page shows subjects that carry these colors.

A team floor can carry plenty of terracotta. For a consulting firm’s client rooms in the same district, we suggest a cooler mix with more sky blue.

Your own imagery is another place to begin. A campaign image or a team photo can become a canvas, if your company holds the rights. Our photo to painting page explains how that works.

In a refurbished center building, let the interior set the tone

In 2024, a Catalan telecom group moved its head office from 22@ to a floor of more than 750 square meters. Its new home is the historic Cambra de Comerç building on Avinguda Diagonal. On the ground floor, the group opened a space meant to link business and culture.

In a building like this, we suggest art chosen for the historic interior rather than the newest palette. Please send photos of the refurbished rooms as they are now, so the colors are picked against the real finishes.

02 / Settle who owns the walls

Your landlord or a flex operator may be the one buying the art

In Barcelona, the company working on a floor does not always choose its art. One property adviser’s report for the second quarter of 2026 mentions three arrangements. For your art, each one can change who picks the style, who pays and who signs off the paintings.

A landlord’s plug-and-work suite

The adviser calls ready-to-use “plug and work” offices an increasingly common landlord strategy in Barcelona. If the suite comes with art, the landlord buys and approves it, and tenants move in with it already on the walls.

These paintings have to suit tenants nobody has met yet. We suggest calm subjects and a palette taken from the suite’s own finishes, with no company’s brand colors.

Your floor, with a fit-out contribution

The same adviser says landlords may contribute to a tenant’s fit-out. Before the design is fixed, agree whether the art sits in the landlord’s package or in your budget.

If it sits in your budget, you can usually set the style: your references, your brand colors and your own approver. Check with your landlord before fixing anything to the walls.

A floor run by a flex operator

Flex operators run flexible shared floors, and large landlords increasingly appoint them under management agreements. Flex space made up 9.3% of Barcelona office leasing in 2025. One property group plans to turn more than 1,400 square meters of its own Eixample building on Consell de Cent into a coworking space.

Settle whether the operator or the landlord owns the paintings and signs them off. In one consultancy’s deals, about three in four flex desks signed in early 2026 were on contracts of a year or more. Members on those contracts may see the same walls for a year or longer.

Whoever buys, we take the order from them and quote each painting to them. Their approver, for the landlord, the tenant or the flex operator, then checks the daylight photos of the finished set side by side. If the landlord, tenant or operator has never ordered painted work before, our painting process page is a short read before that check.

03 / Find your kind of company

A family head office, a multinational’s social floors, a flexible workspace on Passeig de Gràcia: where three Barcelona-area briefs began

Barcelona-area offices look very different from one company to the next. Below, three kinds of company each come with one published Barcelona-area project and the painting direction we suggest from it.

A family brand’s head office. An eyewear brand that began as a Barcelona family business designed a head office of about 900 square meters in 2024. It sits in Sant Cugat del Vallès, just outside the city. The idea was “Domus and Museum”: serene, warm and elegant, closer to a studio than an office. Custom-made elements were treated as small works of art. We suggest gallery-like canvases in warm, quiet colors, sized to the showroom and the rooms where guests sit.
A multinational’s social floors. An air-transport IT multinational joined two floors into one Barcelona workplace in 2026. Its designers used layered textures, comfortable furnishings and greenery to make the social areas warm. For café and lounge walls, we suggest textured paintings of trees, gardens or other nature subjects.
A flexible workspace on Passeig de Gràcia. A workspace of more than 2,200 square meters there was designed in 2026 to be refined, contemporary, flexible and highly functional. If a floor like this is shared by members from many companies, we suggest calm, finely finished pieces that no single brand has to match.

Horizontal impressionist painting in a thin black frame of small boats on a pale lilac and gold sea at sunrise, framed by branches of orange fruit — 01 / Serene and warmBoats on a pale gold sea at dawn, for a studio-like head office.

Tall textured painting in a brown wood frame of white birch trunks rising through bright green leaves, built up in thick palette-knife ridges — 02 / Layered and greenBirch trunks in raised paint, for social floors with plants.

Collection paintings that match two of the directions in this section. They illustrate a brief and are not past office projects.

A Barcelona-inspired palette or a heritage mood is only where others started

These are a few published offices, described by type.

Whoever buys the art chooses the styleFrom a calm landscape for a plug-and-work suite to your brand colors on your own floor, we paint the brief the buyer sets.

05 / Address the quote

A Barcelona quote addressed to whoever buys the art

In Barcelona the art buyer may be the landlord, the tenant or a flex operator, on a new 22@ floor or in a refurbished center building.

Who buys and who approves, and whether a fit-out contractor orders for them
The building and district, such as 22@, the Diagonal, Passeig de Gràcia, the Eixample, the old center or L’Hospitalet
The palette you lean toward: terracotta and sea blues inspired by the city, calm tones for a historic interior, or your brand colors
Reference images, the image width and height, and the quantity of each design
The handover or opening date, and whether you want the paintings rolled, stretched or framed
The delivery address, and whether your installer’s van carries a DGT environmental label for weekday work in Barcelona’s low-emission zone

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 Spain.
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.

Hand-Painted Barcelona Office Art for Tenants, Landlords and Flex Operators