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Dubai / Hotels & FF&E
Hand-Painted Hotel Art for Dubai Hotels and FF&E Teams
Send the artwork schedule or a few images you like, and we help you plan the sample, the series and the delivery to site.
We help Dubai hotel owners, operators, art consultants and FF&E buyers turn approved references into custom hand-painted canvases. That covers guest rooms, corridors, suites and hotel apartments.
PaletteMomento is a hand-painting studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, China, and a trade supplier of custom hotel art with delivery to Dubai and the rest of the UAE. One painter paints each canvas on premium linen, with no print underneath. Orders start at one painting, so you can test a single sample in the mock-up room before the full order. The price of each design depends on its size, its detail and whether it ships rolled, stretched or framed. Before any painting ships, you see daylight photos of every finished canvas and approve them.
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.
From our painting collection, in rust, ochre and charcoal. We paint your approved subjects at the width and height your schedule lists.
01 / Your role in the project
Who holds the art schedule on a Dubai hotel project?
On a Dubai hotel project, the art list can pass through several hands. Several Dubai hotels show work by Emirati and UAE-based artists in their lobbies and public spaces. We do not replace those commissions. We paint the guest-room, corridor and apartment pieces around them, from references your team approves.
Your role in the project and how we can work with you
Your role
How we can work with you
Art consultant
You have curated the collection and written the artwork specification.
We paint to your specification.Send the schedule with the approved images, sizes and finishes, using images you have the right to reproduce. We quote each line. Your commissions from local artists keep their place, and we paint the rooms around them. Your designs and your client’s project stay private by default.
FF&E buyer
Artwork is one line in a larger furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF&E) package.
A quote you can drop into the package.We price each artwork line on its own, so you can place it straight into your package. If we suggest a different size, medium or finish, we list it as a change for you to accept.
Hotel apartment operator
Your units have living rooms as well as bedrooms.
Paintings counted room by room.Send the unit types with the wall sizes for each room. We price each size as its own line, so you can see the cost of furnishing one unit of each type.
Owner without a consultant
You want one partner to help with the art for every room.
We help you choose, then we paint.Share the interior palette and a few images you like, and we can suggest subjects and sizes. Our hotel wall art guide gives starting sizes for the wall above a bed or sofa. Painting starts only after you approve the direction.
02 / Check the brief
Before the sample: content, lettering and landmark checks in Dubai
A design can look right on screen and still be wrong for a Dubai hotel wall. These three checks are worth settling before we paint your sample.
Match each design to Dubai’s import rules and your guidelines
Dubai Customs includes paintings and pictures that contradict Islamic teachings or decency in its list of banned items, and Abu Dhabi Customs has a similar rule. Because our paintings are shipped into the UAE, keep that in mind when you choose designs. Your owner or operator may also have guidelines for guest-facing art, for example on nudity, religious symbols or political themes. Send them with the schedule. Your team makes the final call on each design, and we paint only the designs you have approved.
Approve Arabic lettering, and check Quranic text first
If a design includes Arabic calligraphy, the wording and the letter shapes should come from you, checked by someone who reads Arabic fluently. Send a clear master image with the typed text, and we confirm in the quote whether we can paint it to your standard. Please avoid decorative script that only imitates Arabic, because anyone who reads Arabic can tell at a glance. Quranic text has its own rules in Dubai. If a design includes Quranic verses, check the requirements with the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department (IACAD) before you order.
Choose a sense of place that is yours to use
Some Dubai landmark owners publish rules on how their buildings may be shown commercially. Emaar, for example, asks for its consent before Burj Khalifa is used in advertising or branding. If a famous building is the main subject, or the painting will also appear in your marketing, check with its owner first. We suggest you use photographs you own or have licensed.
03 / Approve one painting first
Start with a sample painting for your Dubai mock-up room
Hang the sample where it will be judged
Most hotel projects approve a mock-up room before the bulk buying of furniture and finishes begins. If your Dubai rooms close for works in the quieter summer months, plan for the sample to hang in the mock-up by spring. Before we paint, write down the two or three questions the sample must answer, such as the color beside the headboard fabric or the texture under the reading light. The approval is then a clear yes or no, and the sample becomes the reference for the whole order.
04 / Plan the series
Hotel apartments: count the paintings room by room
Hotel apartments, often called serviced apartments, are their own licensed category in Dubai. At the end of 2025 they held about one in six of the city’s hotel rooms, based on figures from Dubai’s Department of Economy and Tourism. A one-bedroom or larger unit has a living room as well as a bedroom, so the building needs more paintings than it has apartments.
Some recent Dubai openings use desert colors, such as sand, ochre and bronze, as the palette for the whole collection instead of painting dunes on every wall. A palette like that lets you rotate a few related designs by floor and still keep one look. To choose between repeating one design and rotating a set, see our hotel wall art guide.
01 / Design AGolden grassland with a row of trees.02 / Design BSame subject and palette, new composition.
Two paintings from our collection that share one palette. A rotated set can feel related like this without repeating.
Planning example: a hotel apartment building
Illustrative numbers only, not a real project.
84 living-room + 108 bedroom paintings = 192 canvasesFrom 60 one-bedroom units (60 + 60) and 24 two-bedroom units (24 + 48). Two living-room designs and two bedroom designs, rotated by floor, give 42 and 54 of each. All four designs count together, so the whole order sits in the 21-plus tier.
05 / Approve the finished paintings
Compare every finished canvas with the sample in your mock-up room
Your approved sample stays in the mock-up room in Dubai, so your team holds the reference on the wall. While our painters work on your order, you receive photos and short videos as the painting goes. Before any painting ships, you see daylight photos of every finished canvas and give your approval.
Compare those photos with the sample in the room, and send one list of notes by artwork code. Hand-painted repeats match closely but never exactly, so this is the moment to raise anything that matters to you. Painters are matched to the subject, and colors are mixed on the palette against your reference. You can see how we paint each canvas, step by step.
01 / ScaleA large canvas with a person beside it.02 / In progressA canvas on the board during its second layer.
Photographs taken in our studio.
06 / Plan delivery
Plan hotel art delivery around Dubai floor releases
Arriving in Dubai is not the same as arriving on the right floor. If your hotel refurbishes over the summer while part of it stays open, deliveries may be limited to set times and routes. On a busy site, storage can be short and floors are often released in stages. Tell us these four things, and we plan the packing and the shipments around them.
Where the art is received: the hotel site or a project warehouse, with a contact and receiving hours.
The floor release dates. We can ship in batches by floor or phase instead of all at once.
How your team identifies each piece on site. We can mark each case by artwork code, floor or room.
Whether a framer or installer in Dubai is part of your plan. If they need particular hanging hardware, message us and we can talk it through.
Closed plywood cases strapped inside a shipping container.
Work back from the floor release, not the opening date
Summer is the usual renovation season for UAE hotels, so many Dubai rooms reopen before the busy winter months. New openings move too, and announced dates can slip. We suggest planning the art from the date each floor is released to you, with some spare time built in. For an order of more than 100 canvases, send the full schedule with your release dates, and your quote sets out a plan against them.
Compare air and sea, and decide who frames
When we quote, we compare the express, air and sea options available at the time and show you the cost and timing of each. You do not need to find your own freight forwarder, because we arrange the route with our logistics partners. If you have no framer in Dubai, choose stretched or framed canvases, so no local step is needed before hanging. Our guide to shipping art to the Gulf explains the options in more detail.
07 / Ask for a quote
Send the unit mix, the mock-up date and the floor releases
A full schedule is ideal. For a first price, we need the images, the size and quantity of each, and the delivery address. Details like framing can stay open, and we will quote the options side by side.
We confirm in the quote which of your content, brand, material or safety requirements we can meet.
The artwork schedule, or images with the rooms and units they belong to
Image width and height, and the quantity of each design
Rolled, stretched or framed, and who will hang the work
Delivery address, the mock-up date and the floor release dates
Any content, brand, material or safety requirements from the owner, operator or your specification
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 the UAE.
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.
08 / Before you order
Questions from Dubai hotel and hotel apartment teams
Who can paint custom hand-painted art for a Dubai hotel or hotel apartment building?
PaletteMomento, a hand-painting studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, paints custom canvases for Dubai hotels and hotel apartments from references your team approves, starting at one painting. Art consultants and FF&E buyers can send the artwork schedule on WhatsApp, and the written quote follows by email.
What decides the price of paintings for a Dubai hotel apartment building?
Each size is its own price line, so a living-room size and a bedroom size are two lines even when they share one design. The price of each line depends on the size, the detail and whether it ships rolled, stretched or framed. Quantity tiers start at 6 and 21 pieces, and every design in the building counts toward them together.
Can the living room and the bedroom of a hotel apartment share one design?
Yes, if both walls suit the same proportions. If they do not, a related design in the same palette keeps the unit consistent at two sizes. Each size is priced as its own line, so you can compare both options.
Will every canvas of a repeated design look the same?
Very close, but not identical. Each painter works from the approved sample and your written notes, so the subject, size and colors stay the same. The brushwork differs a little from canvas to canvas, as it does in any hand-painted order. You see daylight photos of every finished canvas and can compare each one with the sample before it ships.
Can new paintings sit beside art that stays, or art commissioned from UAE artists?
Yes. Send daylight photos of those pieces with their sizes and a note of where they hang. We can paint the new work in a related palette and scale, so the collection feels planned together. The approval photos show you how each new piece sits with them before anything ships.
Your schedule or a few images are enough to begin
Get a hand-painted hotel art quote for Dubai
Send what you have, and tell us the mock-up and floor release dates. We will price the paintings, suggest a sample and compare delivery options for your site.
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.
