Fox & Anchor
Hotel Review Magazine - March / April 2008 - Matt Turner

"As with Hotel Du Vin and Malmaison, Handheld Image have created the artworks in each room - linen - printed photographs of the local attractions after which the rooms are named: Barbican, Smithfield Market, Charterhouse Square, St Pauls and St Barts."

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Art in Hotels
Sleeper Magazine - Summer 2005 - Norman Thomas di Giovanni

"We were in Buenos Aires to shoot a portrait of a great city, a place where I had once lived and worked. For three weeks, with me in tow, the irrepressible Peter clambered over precarious rooftops and dived like a rabbit nto reeking burial vaults. Interiors, exteriors, faces ranging from those of humble slum dwellers to that of the nation's president - nothing escaped his attention. The experience wore me out but it also made me a staunch fan of Lavery's work, which I have followed assiduously ever since."

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A Feast for the Eye
GS Magazine - Thomas di Giovanni. Photography by James Lampard

"My personal favourites are Lavery's still lifes. Weathered wooden boxes set in soft white sand, they show, variously, pretty shells and a huge dead moth; a starfish and broken teapot encrusted with worm tubes; a sea horse with shells; bits of gauze and a battered gull feather; shreds of dry kelp and bladder wrack. Most intriguing is the colouration, the slightly bleached out quality. These, Lavery tells me, were shot outside his Wiltshire studio in the full light of a setting sun, which has flattened the contrasts and de-saturated the colours. Heirin lies the trickery, the illusion of real art. The seduction is complete."

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Top Drawer: Art in Hotels
Sleeper Magazine - Catherine Martin

"The recently completed Malamaison Aberdeen features a diverse range of artwork supplied by Handheldimage. Handheld worked closely with CEO Robert Cook and his team of designers to install prints of castles, landscapes, men in kilts, burlesque, and beauties in the Roman baths for the spa. One wall in the Brasserie is covered in canvases of animals under the brief 'the food we eat", not to mention the 3m tall cattle canvases and naked circus performers in the bathrooms. Many of the images used are award winning photographs by Handheld's Peter Lavery."

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Handheldimage: Hotel Art Specialists
GS Magazine - Art & Photography - January / February 2008

"A number of factors have contributed to Handheld's success. Early on, it became apparent to us that hotel designers are far too busy to give the accuisition of artworks the time it requires. Sourcing artwork, some have admitted, is the bane of their lives. We therefore made it our aim to provide original and intelligent art that both complements the design of hotel interiors, and ties into the setting and history of each property"

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