If you’re furnishing a hotel, restaurant, or hospitality space.

Guests remember rooms, not amenities lists. A backlit burlap partition at a check-in desk, or a double-sided piece dividing a dining room into two distinct moods, does something a printed mural or a stock art piece can’t: it changes as the light in the room changes, through the day and the season, so returning guests see something slightly different each time.

Polen’s work is already placed in hospitality settings — Ritz-Carlton and Aston Martin Residences among them — precisely because it was built for spaces people move through, not just spaces people sit and look at. A large-scale piece here isn’t background. It’s often the detail a guest photographs, and the reason a space gets remembered instead of just used.