The Frame

Exploring art, space, and the stories behind the frame


Cottage Prints and Country House Art: How to Style Them in Any Home

Cottage Prints and Country House Art: How to St...

Clara Bell

Cottage prints carry a particular kind of warmth: weathered stone, climbing roses, smoke from a chimney on a grey afternoon. The worry is always the same. Will they make your...

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Modern Kitchen Art Trends: What's Actually on Walls Right Now

Modern Kitchen Art Trends: What's Actually on W...

Jasmine Okoro

Kitchen art has quietly had a glow-up. The herb prints and "Eat, Drink, Be Merry" signs that defined kitchen walls for the better part of a decade are being replaced...

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The Amsterdam Print Edit: Curated Display Ideas That Work

The Amsterdam Print Edit: Curated Display Ideas...

Miles Tanaka

Amsterdam prints have a specific failure mode. Buy three or four, hang them in roughly the right area, and somehow the wall reads less "considered European apartment" and more "souvenir...

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Art Nouveau Flower Prints That Don't Look Like Your Grandmother's House

Art Nouveau Flower Prints That Don't Look Like ...

Clara Bell

Ornamental floral art has a reputation problem. Mention Art Nouveau and most people picture chintz curtains, dusty rose wallpaper, and a porcelain figurine collection. The reality is that designers are...

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Abstract vs Geometric Patterns: Which Wall Art Style Suits Your Space?

Abstract vs Geometric Patterns: Which Wall Art ...

Clara Bell

Most shoppers stall at the same point: do you want clean shapes that feel ordered, or expressive forms that feel alive? Both belong to the same broad family of non-representational...

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What Size Art for a Hallway? Exact Dimensions for Every Layout

What Size Art for a Hallway? Exact Dimensions f...

Clara Bell

Hallways break the standard rules of art sizing. The usual "two-thirds of the sofa" maths doesn't translate when there's no sofa, the wall is interrupted by doors and switches, and...

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Why Food Lover Wall Art Works Best When It Doesn't Match Your Plates

Why Food Lover Wall Art Works Best When It Does...

Miles Tanaka

A wall full of croissants, espresso cups and vintage pasta posters doesn't look like a gallery. It looks like a menu. The trick to displaying food art well is treating...

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Living Room Gallery Walls: How to Style Animal Art Prints with Impact

Living Room Gallery Walls: How to Style Animal ...

Clara Bell

A wall of animal prints can look like a serious, considered piece of interior design, or it can look like the gift shop at a safari park. The difference comes...

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Modern Canvas Art: What's Actually Worth Hanging in 2025

Modern Canvas Art: What's Actually Worth Hangin...

Miles Tanaka

The canvas market is loud right now, full of identical abstracts and over-saturated botanicals that all look the same on Instagram. Below is what's genuinely worth your wall space, why...

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7 Mid-Century Modern Wall Art Rules That Get Placement Right

7 Mid-Century Modern Wall Art Rules That Get Pl...

Clara Bell

Mid-century modern art lives or dies by placement. A perfect print hung 10cm too high or sized 20cm too small will look like a mistake, and that's the moment most...

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The Only Maximalist Gallery Wall Guide That Stays Intentional

The Only Maximalist Gallery Wall Guide That Sta...

Clara Bell

Maximalism isn't the absence of rules. It's the careful concealment of them. The walls that look like joyful chaos in design magazines are almost always built on invisible structure: a...

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You're Overthinking How to Display Pet Art at Home

You're Overthinking How to Display Pet Art at Home

Clara Bell

Your pet deserves wall space, and your home can still look grown-up. The trick is treating pet portraits like any other piece of art: with intention, proper scale, and a...

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The Sophisticated Cartoon Art Edit: Curated Picks for Adult Spaces

The Sophisticated Cartoon Art Edit: Curated Pic...

Clara Bell

Cartoon art has a reputation problem in adult homes, and it's almost entirely a framing and scale problem rather than a content problem. A vintage Tintin lithograph in a thick...

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Bathroom Gallery Wall Ideas: 5 Layouts That Work in Tight Spaces

Bathroom Gallery Wall Ideas: 5 Layouts That Wor...

Jasmine Okoro

Bathroom walls break the rules that work everywhere else in your home. They're narrower, interrupted by towel bars and light switches, and you're standing two feet away from them while...

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Minimalist Mountain Prints: Why They Work in Almost Every Room (and How to Hang Them)

Minimalist Mountain Prints: Why They Work in Al...

Miles Tanaka

Mountain prints have quietly become one of the most popular ways to bring calm into a home, and for good reason. They carry the weight of a landscape painting without...

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The Only Japanese Art Gallery Wall Guide You Need

The Only Japanese Art Gallery Wall Guide You Need

Jasmine Okoro

You bought one Hokusai wave. Maybe a Hiroshige landscape too. Now you're staring at a blank wall trying to work out how to turn two prints into a proper gallery...

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The Pop Art Gallery Wall Edit: Curated Layouts That Work

The Pop Art Gallery Wall Edit: Curated Layouts ...

Jasmine Okoro

Pop art was made for gallery walls. The bold colours, repeated motifs and graphic shapes do half the cohesion work for you, which is exactly why this is the easiest...

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Building a Louis Wain Gallery Wall: From Edwardian Cats to Psychedelic Patterns

Building a Louis Wain Gallery Wall: From Edward...

Jasmine Okoro

Most gallery walls feature one mood, one palette, one feeling. A Louis Wain wall does the opposite. His work spans soft Edwardian parlour scenes, riotous middle-period crowds, and the famous...

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What Interior Designers Know About Tropical Bird Gallery Walls

What Interior Designers Know About Tropical Bir...

Clara Bell

Tropical bird prints are some of the most rewarding art you can hang, and some of the easiest to get wrong. The difference between a gallery wall that looks curated...

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The Nature Gallery Wall Edit: Curated Picks for Every Room

The Nature Gallery Wall Edit: Curated Picks for...

Jasmine Okoro

Most nature gallery walls fail for the same reason: people pick prints they love, hang them up, and hope cohesion magically appears. It doesn't. The good news is that curating...

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