Is there some sort of underground hotel art exchange? Where do the old decorations go?
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A lot of the decorations are print. Most of the work in making a print is to make the tooling, but when you have this you can print as many as you want. A hotel might pay an artist to make ten different prints, and then they might print twenty copies of each of them to hang up in different rooms and hallways. And if they later want more they can just print more of them without even having to pay the artist any more.
I have also noticed a lot of hotels are decorating with stenciled paintings. Again the tooling is the most expensive. You can just have a regular house painter or even a janitor to put up the decorations wherever you want with the stencils the artist made. You do not even need to buy canvas and a frame.
The disadvantage to both prints and stencils is the number of colors you can use. And also if you do a cheap job the patterns might not match up perfectly. This is why hotels usually go for abstract decoration as this is the style which is best suited for this. It is not because the paintings are cheap, in fact the artists making abstract painting for hotels can be quite good and even world renown artists. But since they need so many copies you need a painting that can be copied badly and still look good. And abstract paintings are also tasteful to anyone.
It’s a combo of everything. The hotel has a corporate ID, basically an extensive playbook detailing their aesthetic sensibilities, and an interior designer/architect to carry it out. Its up to the designer to move between the hotel/corporate furnishers, local and international art circle, and manufacturers to see who can give them the prettiest stuff in the most logistically feasible time/cost frame.
They have accounts with design warehouses and buy from trade shows.
Source: event designer by trade.
There are companies which specialise in it. The hotel just specifies an aesthetic they want to achieve.
There are also agencies which provide the music playlists you hear in hotel bars and restaurants.
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