Hotel Grand Hyatt, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

The Property

Hotel Grand Hyatt, Dallas Fort Worth sits inside the airport itself, suspended over the terminal with views onto the runways, a hotel defined less by a landscape than by movement passing beneath it. That gave the custom artwork a different kind of identity to build than a mountain or coastal property: instead of place, the through line is motion - flight paths, departure, the choreography of travel. Contemporary interiors, warm woods and stone, called for large-scale artwork that could feel considered and grounded rather than literal or thematic in an on-the-nose way.

The Artwork

For the suites, we built a mix of custom 3D folded-paper artwork and 2D abstract and landscape pieces around that idea of flight. The 3D pieces, cut and folded from single sheets of paper, shadow-layered for depth, translate the mechanics of flight (paper planes, a jet's silhouette) into something tactile and sculptural rather than illustrative - a distinct approach to 3D wall art in a hospitality setting. The 2D groupings move in a more restrained register: abstract studies in line and graphite, landscape blocks that suggest horizon without rendering one literally.

Grand Suite

The Room A marble-topped bar anchors the living area, with a long sightline down a dark wood-panelled corridor toward the suite entry.

The Art Above the bar hangs Flight Path, a custom 3D artwork using the folded paper technique. It's created from a single sheet of paper, shaped so the cuts and folds read as a formation of paper planes, with a contrasting colour layered behind that gives the piece its shadow and depth. Float-framed in walnut, it's the kind of piece that only works as a 3D paper art installation, flat photography or print can't get at the shadow and depth that shifts as light moves around it. 

Down the corridor, a four-piece gallery grouping, Ascent I, Orbit, Trajectory, and Ascent II, brings the same sense of motion in a restrained register. Three are long-exposure photographs of aircraft contrails - trailing, drifting, crossing against dark sky. The fourth, Orbit, breaks the documentary logic with a perfect circular loop, too precise to be a chance trail, and reads more like a drawn counterpoint to the other three. Hung tightly gridded, the wall still reads as one composition.

Executive Suite

The Room A freestanding tub and double vanity sit at the end of a hallway, with a large backlit mirror.

The Art Hung in the hallway, Flight Plan is another custom 3D folded paper artwork, this one folded rather than cut, in a soft sage green with a jet's silhouette rendered in fine white line down the centre fold, radiating lines streaking outward around it to suggest speed.