Art Lab’s relationship with Conran & Partners is on-going; the first major project we worked on with the practice was the Andaz hotel, formerly known as Great Eastern Hotel (illustrated). We then went on to supply a collection of art for their ‘Sky Lounge’ project in Tokyo.

At the Great Eastern, the main concern for the architects was to source works that picked up on key themes within their own designs and the refurbishment strategy of this large Victorian building. These themes comprised firstly the history of the hotel and its link to the railways and secondly its close proximity to the city of London.

Art Lab went on to source 300 limited edition photographic prints for the bedrooms. The hotel selected four photographers, Keith Collie, Greg Williams, Max Jourdan and Christoph Klauke, to handle subtly different briefs to do with the life and architecture of the city of London in order to provide the hotel with a significant new collection of contemporary photography. The collection was used in the promotion and marketing of the hotel during opening.

Client Comments

"For the bedrooms at the Great Eastern Hotel, Art Lab successfully presented, organised and framed and hung an excellent portfolio of commissioned photography, which was entirely appropriate to our design brief." Robert Malcolm, Project Architect, Conran and Partners.