Living with Art

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 pale sphere holding a pink heart, crossed by a spiralling double line.

Pink wall art: 12 paintings in blush, rose and coral

Hilma af Klint’s pastel cosmos, Utamaro’s rose kimonos and a Rococo marquise with a rose in her hair: twelve paintings in every shade of pink.

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A sunlit stretch of the ancient Via Sacra in Rome, leading toward the church of Saints Cosmas and Damian.

Guest room decor: 12 welcoming paintings for visitors

Rome in the sun, a London courtyard, Tahiti with Gauguin and a Swedish river with Carl Larsson: twelve travelling pictures that make a guest room feel like a small holiday.

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A lone traveller crosses an arched bridge beneath a snowy willow.

Blue and white decor: 12 prints with porcelain colours

Hokusai’s snow, Hiroshige’s waves, Canaletto’s pale skies and Blake’s moonlit circle: twelve blue and white pictures to hang beside your porcelain.

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A young woman reads a love letter by golden light while her father watches from behind a curtain.

What art goes with blue walls? 12 paintings that glow

Gold, honey, amber and coral are blue’s natural partners. Twelve paintings by Turner, Böcklin, Blake, Rubens and Guardi that glow against a blue wall.

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A long Christmas table laid with food and glasses, with candles and a great fire, and family members gathered around.

Christmas mantel decor: 12 winter paintings to hang above the fire

Carl Larsson’s Christmas Eve, Queen Victoria’s tree, a Danish tree market and Courbet’s snowy village: twelve festive paintings for the season’s most important wall.

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A knight in armour embraces his two daughters as their ransom is counted on a table.

Blue wall art: 12 paintings from sky blue to deep navy

Manet’s seaside, Blake’s Dante, Homer’s open skies and Hiroshige’s fireworks: twelve paintings in every blue, from powder to midnight.

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Farmers plough the fields beside a large farmhouse, framed by tall trees under a cloudy sky.

Mantel decor ideas: 12 paintings for above the fireplace

A Brueghel farm, a Stubbs spaniel, a Ruysch bouquet and a Manet portrait: twelve paintings that hold the most important wall in the room, with how to hang them.

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A quiet stream winds through a dense, mossy ravine in deep green shade.

Emerald green decor: 12 jewel-toned paintings

Courbet’s hidden brook, a Mughal Tales of a Parrot page, a Rajput deer garden and Böcklin’s blazing summer: twelve paintings in deep, jewel-like green.

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A hazy blue green sea under a pale sky, with tiny bathers on the shore suggested in a few strokes.

Bathroom wall art: 12 serene pictures for a classy bathroom

Whistler’s little bathers, Monet at Étretat, a turquoise Homer and a moonlit Hokusai: twelve quiet water pictures for the smallest room, with the colours of each.

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