The Frame
Exploring art, space, and the stories behind the frame
The Best Matisse Prints for a Modern Living Roo...
Matisse prints are everywhere right now, and for good reason. His cut-outs, botanicals and figure studies have a rare ability to feel both century-old and freshly modern. This guide helps...
Modern vs. Vintage Botanical Prints: Which Styl...
Botanical prints are one of the most over-recommended categories in interior design, and one of the least well-explained. The "botanical prints go with everything" line is comforting but wrong: a...
Large Botanical Prints: How to Make a Single Pr...
A single large botanical print, chosen well and hung properly, will do more for a room than three small ones ever could. It reads as a deliberate design choice rather...
Vintage vs Modern Botanical Prints: A Honest Co...
Botanical prints have been a decorating mainstay for over two centuries, and they're having another major moment in 2026. But "botanical" covers two very different aesthetic worlds, and choosing the...
Going Big: How to Style Large Botanical Prints ...
A big botanical print can transform a room in a way that three smaller ones simply cannot. The problem is that most people, faced with a blank wall and a...
From Scientific Illustration to Statement Wall ...
Botanical prints have been hanging on walls for nearly 400 years, but they started life as something far more practical. The journey from physician's reference manual to most-requested wall art...
Best Rooms for Botanical Prints (and Exactly Ho...
Botanical prints are the most forgiving art category in the home. They suit almost every room, but "almost every room" is not a styling plan. Here's where botanicals work hardest,...
Modern Scandinavian Art: 7 Trends Shaping Scand...
Scandinavian art used to mean one thing: a thin black line drawing of a face on white paper, hung in a pale oak frame. That look isn't dead, but it's...
Warm Scandi Style vs Cold Minimalism: Which Wil...
We've all walked into an "ultra-Scandi" room and felt vaguely cold. White walls, blonde wood, one spindly chair, and an unsettling echo. The problem isn't the style. It's the way...
Vintage or Modern Kitchen Prints? How to Match ...
Most kitchen art guides tell you to "choose what you love" and leave you to it. That's not advice, that's a shrug. The real question is whether your kitchen leans...
Transform Your Kitchen Walls with Art That Work...
Most kitchen art advice is the same recycled list: lemons, herbs, a typography print telling you to "Eat, Drink, Be Merry". You deserve better, and your walls do too. This...
Room by Room: Where to Hang Botanical Prints fo...
Botanical prints are the most forgiving genre of wall art you can buy. That doesn't mean every leaf-on-paper works in every room, or that hanging them is intuitive. This guide...
7 Rules for Decorating Your Bedroom with Vintag...
Most bedroom art advice tells you to "create cohesion" without explaining how. This is the opposite: seven specific rules with measurements, numbers, and clear stopping points, written for anyone with...
Why Vase Prints Belong in Your Kitchen (and How...
Kitchens get the worst of it. They're the hardest-working room in the house and somehow end up with the least considered walls. A vase print fixes that faster than almost...
Realism vs Impressionism in Garden Art: Which S...
Two paintings of the same peony can give a room entirely different energy. One feels precise and grounded, the other dreamy and atmospheric. This guide is about choosing between them,...
The Best Wall Art Gifts for Travel Lovers (That...
Buying art for someone else is hard. Buying travel art for someone else, when you don't know their wall colours or whether they prefer Lisbon to Lyon, feels borderline reckless....
Room by Room: Where Travel Wall Art Works Harde...
Travel prints get treated like holiday souvenirs when they should be treated like art. Hung at the wrong size, in the wrong frame, in the wrong room, even the most...
Vintage Travel Posters: A Short History and How...
Vintage travel posters are having a proper moment again, and not in the ironic, dorm-room way they did in 2008. Sophisticated interiors are pulling them back in, framed properly, hung...
Why Klimt Painted Forests: The Story Behind His...
The Vienna scandals that made Klimt crave the countryside By 1900, Gustav Klimt was the most talked-about painter in Vienna for reasons he had not chosen. He had been commissioned...
Who Did Klimt Actually Paint? The Real People i...
Gustav Klimt painted some of the most recognisable women in art, but most people couldn't name a single one of them. The faces draped in gold and pattern were real...