Bring art into everyday life. Read about prints, cushions, portraits and personal objects, with notes on choosing, displaying and caring for the pieces you keep.
A painting of a house is never only about walls and windows. These fourteen are about pride, memory, loss and home, from a burnt-out Dutch manor to the red cottage that shaped Swedish design.
How Surrealium cut Bosch's triptychs into prints that hang on their own, and six to start with.
Five portraits from three centuries, most shown in rooms, and a simple order for choosing: shape, then palette, then period.
Two woodland prints reward a slower gaze. Explore Bresdin’s branches, tangled lines and luminous openings, then find your own way into the forest.
Myth, monsters and dream architecture offer different kinds of darkness for a room devoted to slow looking.
Carl Larsson’s Sundborn watercolours, the Skagen painters, Hammershøi’s quiet rooms and the folk tales of Swedish art: fourteen pictures from the north.
Choose a narrative image by its story, movement and detail, then consider how it will live in your room.
The first real art on a couple’s walls: Monet’s river, Homer’s coast, Hokusai’s Fuji, a Renoir for the kitchen and a portrait of their first house. Twelve wedding gifts that will outlast the toaster.
Mucha’s Zodiac, Sharaku’s actor on a yellow ground, Carl Larsson’s Old Anna and Blake’s dancing fairies: twelve paintings with yellow, blush and teal that wake up grey.