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Brand Red or Terracotta? Hand-Painted Office Art for Zurich Firms
In one Zurich telecom’s staff restaurant, the architects turned brand red into terracotta and brand blue into ice blue and petrol. We paint your brand colors at whatever strength your rooms ask for.
Your brand team may be turning a corporate identity into calm rooms, as that telecom did in its Pfingstweidstrasse restaurant and bistro. Or you may be preparing client rooms for a lakeside private bank or family office, or a wealth boutique at Bellevue. Other briefs come from a tech floor at Europaallee, a tower floor in Oerlikon or an office at The Circle.
PaletteMomento is a hand-painting studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, China, supplying trade buyers worldwide. One painter paints each canvas on premium linen, with no printed base. Your palette is agreed once for the whole office, and each canvas is then its own line on the quote. Orders start at one painting, and before any canvas leaves the studio, you approve its daylight photos against your marked brand colors.
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.
White sails on a hazy turquoise lake, from our painting collection, not an installed office project. A quiet lake can sit beside your brand colors without competing.
01 / Decide how far to mute each brand color
Your logo colors do not have to reach the canvas at full strength
In 2025, architects redesigned the staff restaurant and bistro at a telecom company’s Pfingstweidstrasse site in Zurich. They read the brand’s red, blue and white as restrained nuances: terracotta, ice blue, petrol and cream white. Their project text, published in May 2026, describes the result as a calm, contemporary interior.
That is one room at one company, not a rule for Swiss firms. Still, it shows a choice your brand team can make before any canvas is painted.
Planning example: one logo palette, translated for the walls
Illustrative only. The nuances follow the published Zurich project above.
Red in the logo, terracotta on the canvasWarm and earthy, closer to fired clay than to a signal.
Blue in the logo, ice blue or petrolIce blue for light, open grounds. Petrol for darker lines.
White in the logo, cream whiteA softer white for grounds and highlights.
Your own brand may need other nuances. We mix each one on the palette against the reference you approve.
Mark each brand color: full strength, a nuance, or none
We suggest sending the interior palette along with the logo colors: the wall paint colors and photos of the main materials. You can then mark each brand color as full strength, a muted nuance, or none. None means that color stays off the canvas altogether.
Oak, clay, stone or smoked wood: your office may already hold its palette
Several published Zurich office projects name their materials in detail: stone, clay plaster, oak and built-in woodwork. In your own office, the workplace designer or architect may have fixed the materials long before anyone briefs the art. Each card below takes one or two published Zurich projects, by kind of company and address, and turns their materials into a palette to brief.
01
Stone and clay, dark against light
A wealth boutique at Bellevue. One wealth-management boutique’s office overlooks Sechseläutenplatz (2026). Its designers chose a reduced formal language and deliberately restrained details. A dark-toned core stands against a light stone floor. Clay plaster, natural-fiber wallpaper, wool carpets and a Swiss pine table complete the room.
To brief: tonal canvases that pick up clay and stone, with one clear step from light to dark rather than many colors.
02
Woodwork by the lake
A private bank and a family office on Bellerivestrasse. A private bank’s new Swiss headquarters (2025) fills more than 2,000 square meters on two floors of the former Elektrowatt building on Lake Zurich. Its design aimed to convey security and stability with a modern feel. Reception, client meeting rooms and an events space face the lake. A multi-family office in the same building (2024) uses high-quality materials and integrated woodwork.
To brief: calm abstracts that sit beside built-in woodwork, or lake subjects in rooms that already look out at the water.
03
Local wood, stone and Zurich blue
A tech company at Europaallee. A tech company’s office at Europaallee, next to Zurich main station, was completed in 2025. Its designers added what they call a local Swiss touch: local wood, stone and “Züriblue”, plus planted walkways.
To brief: Zurich blue as the subject of the canvas, with wood and stone tones around it. Section 03 shows two ways to paint it.
04
Smoked oak, sand and earth
A north Zurich tower and a reinsurer. The 80-meter Franklinturm at Oerlikon station was completed in 2022. A curtain maker’s sponsored article describes wood, metal and glass, smoked-oak doors and warm sand-colored curtains in some areas. It speaks of technical precision joined with “a restrained, almost homely elegance”. A reinsurance company’s Zurich office (2024) uses light oak and warm, earthy colors.
To brief: warm neutral and earthy canvases that sit with oak and sand.
05
Historic rooms, calm fit-out
Global firms in central heritage buildings. One insurance broker’s office sits in a historic building at the Sihlporte (2025). It was designed to blend Zurich’s heritage with forward-thinking design in a serene setting. One consulting firm’s 9,200 square meter city campus (2025) includes a former department store on Sihlstrasse. There, art, culture and heritage define the interior.
To brief: calm palettes that suit old rooms, or a Zurich subject from section 03.
A new floor in north Zurich may have no materials chosen yet. JLL’s January 2026 report counted more than 50,000 square meters newly available in District 11, which includes Oerlikon, during 2025. JLL named buildings such as Vertex and Skykey, so a new tenant there may start with bare walls. The palette can then come from the fit-out materials your designer picks.
For any other kind of company, the same method works: read the palette from your own materials and references.
03 / Pick the Zurich note
Zurich blue, Concrete-style geometry, a street you know, or no local note at all
With the palette set, decide where the walls take their local character from. A lake-and-mountain postcard is only one source. Published Zurich offices and the city’s own art history point to others.
Zurich blue. The Europaallee tech office in section 02 paired Zurich blue with local wood and stone for its local touch. That blue can lead a lake subject or a blue-toned abstract. Our page on custom landscape paintings shows how a view becomes a canvas.
A street you know. Your firm may prefer a place to a color. We can paint the street or building outside your office from photos you took or have licensed. For a firm at the Sihlporte, that might be the corner clients pass on their way in. See our custom cityscape paintings.
01 / Zurich blue and the lakeTurquoise water below blue and gray peaks.02 / A street you knowA wet street at dusk, lit in yellow and orange.
Two collection paintings, shown only to compare a lake note with a street note. Neither one shows Zurich or hangs in an office.
Concrete-style geometry, for local character without a lake
Zurich has its own school of geometric color. The NZZ describes the Zurich Concrete Art school as growing out of a school of applied arts. Its main figures were Max Bill, Camille Graeser, Richard Paul Lohse and Verena Loewensberg. All of its artists also designed posters and interior decoration. Their rhythmically built color fields suited modern buildings well, giving them a fresh tone, the NZZ wrote in January 2025.
Zurich Tourism calls Max Bill (1908 to 1994) the prominent Zurich representative of the Bauhaus style. His granite sculpture stands on Bahnhofstrasse, and a square in Zurich-Nord is named after him. We paint original geometric compositions in that spirit, not copies. See our custom geometric paintings.
A global firm can also skip the local note and let its muted brand palette carry the walls. A bright geometric grid or a quiet lake: the style stays your company’s call, painted to your brief.
04 / Write the nuances into the quote
A Zurich quote request that lists each brand color twice: in the logo and on the canvas
Which brand colors stay at full strength, and which become nuances? Write the answer beside each color code. That marked list then becomes part of the reference each painter mixes against.
Each brand color as a code, marked full strength, muted nuance or none, or a request for us to suggest nuances
Photos of the main materials, such as wood, stone, plaster and textiles
Your Zurich note: Zurich blue, Concrete-style geometry, a street you know, or none
Reference images, the image width and height, and the quantity of each design
Rolled, stretched or framed, the delivery address or your delivery point at The Circle, and any tenant or building delivery rules
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 Switzerland.
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.
05 / From The Circle to the lake shore
Zurich situations a palette alone does not settle
Our office is at The Circle at Zurich Airport. What does a delivery there need?
Zurich Airport’s rules for The Circle require a Cargoclix time-slot booking for delivery points C and E. At points A, B, D and F, unbooked vehicles must leave without delay after unloading, after 30 minutes at the latest. The airport asks suppliers to get the delivery terms, point and time from the tenant. Tenants can check them in the Tenant Handbook. The Circle is in Kloten, next to the airport. Please send your delivery point and those tenant terms with your quote request, and the quote takes them into account.
Our Zurich headquarters opens years from now. What can we do about the art this year?
This year your brand team can decide how far each brand color is muted, even if your Zurich headquarters opens years from now. Projects can run that long: one industrial group plans detailed design in 2026/2027 for an Oerlikon headquarters, with move-in planned for 2031. It plans to renovate a listed building on its heritage site and add a new six-story building. A 280 square meter lobby and exhibition area is part of the plan. A marked list agreed now can sit beside the material choices while the design is detailed. The full order can follow once the wall sizes are fixed.
Should paintings in a Zurich bank’s meeting rooms be talking points or quiet backdrops?
Both can work: a Zurich bank’s client meeting rooms can take a talking point, and its focus rooms a quieter piece. One Zurich private bank says its art collection, founded in 1981, expresses a conviction that art at the workplace encourages a culture of conversation. It hangs the works in meeting rooms, staff restaurants, offices, foyers and corridors at its offices around the world. Tell us which rooms should start conversations, and we can suggest subjects for those walls.
Will our Zurich family office’s designs stay private?
Yes, client designs stay private by default, which matters to discreet Zurich offices such as one lakeside multi-family office. Its designers conceived its 2024 headquarters as a “Family Office Residence” conveying trust, personal client relationships and discretion. We suggest leaving client names off the files you send. A room number or artwork code on the brief is enough to tell us where each painting belongs.
Our Zurich insurer has a brand symbol. Can one motif run through paintings on several floors?
Yes: in one reinsurer’s new head office in Zurich’s Enge district, a concept based on its brand identity and sun symbol runs through all four floors. It shows in colors, materials, forms and graphic elements, across about 28,000 square feet (2026). A painted series can take one motif from your symbol into an abstract canvas for each floor. Each canvas can use the nuances chosen for your brand colors. Please send the brand guidelines, and confirm that your company holds the rights to the symbol.
Logo colors and material photos
Your brand, painted at the strength your rooms can carry
Share your logo colors next to photos of the oak, stone or plaster they will sit beside. We can then talk through how far each one should be muted.
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.
