The First Home2 Suites by Hilton in Europe
Home2 Suites by Hilton, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1
Hilton chose Dublin to launch Home2 Suites in Europe for the first time. Spires Art delivered the complete artwork, mirror and decorative package across all 290 bedrooms and suites and every public space, designed and manufactured in-house and installed by our own team, working alongside interior design studio ADS Design and developer JMK Group.
An exclusive collection for the bedrooms
All guest rooms are anchored by a Spires Art original collection of Dublin illustrations created exclusively for this property: the city’s landmarks, its literary figures and its architecture, drawn and created in a contemporary editorial style by our in-house design team.
The collection was structured as three coordinated sets of three artworks allocated for the bedrooms, with three further designs created for the bathrooms. Every room draws from this family, so no two room types feel identical while the whole hotel reads as one. Produced across 290 rooms, it runs to well over a thousand framed pieces held together by a single visual identity.
Bespoke mirrors, sized to the room
Each bedroom features a bespoke pill-shaped mirror, produced in varying dimensions to suit the individual room layouts. Manufacturing our own mirrors gave us the freedom to size every one to its space.
A guidebook, redesigned
When a Dublin guidebook intended for the guest rooms didn’t quite harmonize with the colour palette, we were asked to rethink its design. Alongside two other curated books tied to the city, we crafted custom covers to ensure they felt as intentional and integrated as the custom artwork on the walls.
Bringing Dublin into the public spaces
Spires created a series of bespoke collages and illustrations for the public spaces, celebrating Dublin in a quirky graphic style — ink, watercolour and mixed media, layered cityscapes of the Ha’penny Bridge, the Georgian streets and the skyline, reimagined rather than reproduced.
Across the lobby, lounge, dining area and corridors, each piece stands on its own while the collection holds as one.
Curated and installed: the decorative styling
We also curated, supplied, and installed the full decorative accessory package for the public-area shelving. Every object was chosen to the brand standard and the property’s mood — calm, modern, with a homely, country warmth and a quiet, considered palette — each shelf styled to feel collected over time and tied back to Dublin.
One partner, from concept to install
From our design team creating the artwork, to our production team manufacturing all framed pieces, and installing the whole package. That is what held a single identity consistent across more than a thousand pieces and met Hilton’s standards on a debut that had to be right. The result is an interior finished to feel unmistakably Dublin.
A European first
The Home2 Suites Marlborough Street is the first of its brand in Europe. We’re proud to have been trusted to help tell its story.
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By Padraig Taggart
