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 Homer seascape for a bright room, a Canaletto for a formal one, a Viennese salon for a reader’s corner: twelve paintings chosen for the room you spend most time in, with the colours of each.
Friedrich’s wanderer, Van Gogh’s irises, Renoir’s rowers, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Hokusai and Monet: thirty of the world’s best-known pictures, and the room each one suits.
Renaissance Sky, Baroque Red or Rococo? Three royal pet portrait styles, with real Fable examples and a clear place to begin.
Client gift ideas that do not end up in the bin: playing cards, a hardcover notebook and a woven cushion, each carrying your firm’s crest or monogram.
A mother-and-child river scene in luminous impressionist oil, composed from a single photo of you.
The Christmas card is the most seen thing a firm sends all year. How to make one with your own crest or monogram, what to write and when to send.
Velvet and pearls, a gathering storm or an officer's dress coat: compare the current examples and choose the one that suits the person on the wall.
A deck of cards with your own arms or monogram on every back: as a Christmas gift for a family, a thank-you for clients or a game for the first night in a new house.
Toddlers, grandparents and the dog: how Royal Autumn, Colonel Baby and Storm handle a household, and what Renoir got right in 1878.