The Frame

Exploring art, space, and the stories behind the frame


The 12 Most Famous William Morris Designs (and Where to Hang Each)

The 12 Most Famous William Morris Designs (and ...

Clara Bell

Morris designed over 50 wallpapers and textiles in his lifetime, but most people can only name three or four. This guide covers 12, with the story behind each one and...

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Rome vs Venice vs Florence: Choosing Italian City Prints for Your Home

Rome vs Venice vs Florence: Choosing Italian Ci...

Jasmine Okoro

Rome, Venice and Florence photograph beautifully, but they don't behave the same way on a wall. Each city has its own palette, its own emotional register, and its own set...

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Matching Cat Art to Your Own Cat: Coat, Pose and Palette

Matching Cat Art to Your Own Cat: Coat, Pose an...

Jasmine Okoro

Somewhere between a £300 commissioned portrait and a random print of a generic ginger tabby lies the sweet spot: ready-made cat art that genuinely looks like your cat. This guide...

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The Grown-Up Way to Style Whimsical Wall Art

The Grown-Up Way to Style Whimsical Wall Art

Jasmine Okoro

Whimsy has an image problem. It gets filed next to nursery mobiles and dorm room posters, when in fact some of the most interesting adult interiors lean heavily on playful...

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Three Framing Choices That Make Floral Prints Look Expensive

Three Framing Choices That Make Floral Prints L...

Clara Bell

Most floral prints don't look cheap because of the print itself. They look cheap because of what's around them: a mat that's too skinny, a frame that fights the artwork,...

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The Complete Guide to Rome Wall Art Gallery Walls

The Complete Guide to Rome Wall Art Gallery Walls

Miles Tanaka

Rome is one of the few cities that gives you three completely different visual languages to work with: monumental ancient architecture, warm terracotta rooftops, and the graphic punch of mid-century...

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The Complete Guide to Building a William Morris Gallery Wall

The Complete Guide to Building a William Morris...

Jasmine Okoro

A William Morris gallery wall lives or dies on restraint. The patterns are already doing a lot of work, so your job is to give them space, structure, and a...

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The Biggest Dog Wall Art Mistake and How to Fix It

The Biggest Dog Wall Art Mistake and How to Fix It

Clara Bell

The biggest mistake with dog wall art is treating it as a category unto itself. You wouldn't dedicate a whole wall to "human portraits" or "pictures of buildings", so why...

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The Complete Guide to Creating a Sophisticated Cat Gallery Wall

The Complete Guide to Creating a Sophisticated ...

Jasmine Okoro

A cat gallery wall lives or dies by its mechanics, not its subject matter. Frame consistency, precise spacing, and a considered anchor piece will do more for your composition than...

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Our Favourite Bird Gallery Wall Sets in Six Frames

Our Favourite Bird Gallery Wall Sets in Six Frames

Miles Tanaka

Six is the sweet spot for a bird gallery wall. Enough frames to feel considered and substantial, few enough that you can hang the whole thing in an afternoon without...

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Framing William Morris Prints: Wood, Colour and Mount Choices

Framing William Morris Prints: Wood, Colour and...

Jasmine Okoro

Morris designed patterns for entire rooms, not for postcards. That matters when you're framing his work, because the wrong frame can turn a masterpiece of Victorian botanical design into visual...

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Floral Wall Art Ideas for Every Room

Floral Wall Art Ideas for Every Room

Clara Bell

Floral art has a reputation problem. Get it right and you have a room that feels considered, warm and alive. Get it wrong and you're staring at your grandmother's chintz...

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Famous Paintings of Rome and Where to See Them

Famous Paintings of Rome and Where to See Them

Clara Bell

Rome has been painted more often than almost any city on earth. Not just its people or its saints, but the city itself: crumbling forums, glowing domes, tourists sketching in...

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Famous Cat Paintings and the Artists Who Could Not Stop Drawing Them

Famous Cat Paintings and the Artists Who Could ...

Clara Bell

Cats have padded through art history for at least 4,000 years, from Egyptian tomb walls to Victorian parlour paintings to the flat-planed prints filling modern living rooms. What follows is...

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Dog art styles explained: painterly, pop art, line art and portrait

Dog art styles explained: painterly, pop art, l...

Clara Bell

Dog art is one of the most saturated categories in the print world, and also one of the most misunderstood. Most listings just throw around words like "painterly" or "pop...

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Black Cats in Art: From Folk Charms to Modern Silhouettes

Black Cats in Art: From Folk Charms to Modern S...

Clara Bell

Few motifs have carried as much cultural weight, or as many contradictions, as the black cat. Sacred in one century, feared in the next, then reborn as a graphic shorthand...

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The Complete Guide to Styling Your Rome Italy Wall Art Gallery

The Complete Guide to Styling Your Rome Italy W...

Jasmine Okoro

Most Italy-themed gallery walls fail for the same reason: they treat each city as a separate holiday memory rather than parts of one visual story. This guide shows you how...

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Audubon vs John Gould: which antique bird prints should you hang?

Audubon vs John Gould: which antique bird print...

Jasmine Okoro

Audubon and Gould are the two giants of 19th-century ornithological illustration, and their work still dominates the vintage bird print market almost two centuries on. But which one actually belongs...

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Famous Paintings of Rome: From Piranesi Ruins to Modern Cityscapes

Famous Paintings of Rome: From Piranesi Ruins t...

Miles Tanaka

Search for "famous paintings of Rome" and you'll get a muddle: Caravaggios housed in Roman churches, Pompeian frescoes made by ancient Romans, and generic modern prints of the Colosseum at...

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Ancient Roman Frescoes Explained: The Four Styles of Roman Wall Painting

Ancient Roman Frescoes Explained: The Four Styl...

Jasmine Okoro

For roughly three centuries, wealthy Romans covered their walls in painted illusions: fake marble, fake windows, fake gardens, fake temples floating in mid-air. When Vesuvius buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in...

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