The Frame

Exploring art, space, and the stories behind the frame


Every Room Deserves William Morris Forest Prints: A Styling Guide

Every Room Deserves William Morris Forest Print...

Clara Bell

Morris's forest and woodland designs are the moodier cousins of his famous florals. Denser patterns, darker palettes, more visual weight per square centimetre, which is exactly why they need different...

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Tulip Art for Bedrooms: The Best Colours, Sizes, and Placement

Tulip Art for Bedrooms: The Best Colours, Sizes...

Clara Bell

Tulips are one of the few florals that feel equally at home in a minimalist bedroom and a maximalist one. Their soft, sculptural forms and huge colour range mean you...

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William Morris Animal Designs: The Complete Story Behind the Birds, Rabbits, and Beyond

William Morris Animal Designs: The Complete Sto...

Clara Bell

Animals in William Morris's original work: what he actually designed William Morris designed a surprising number of animals, but not the ones most people assume. His original wallpapers, textiles and...

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Why Vintage Fish Prints Work in Modern Homes When Other Art Doesn't

Why Vintage Fish Prints Work in Modern Homes Wh...

Clara Bell

Vintage fish prints have quietly become one of the most useful things you can put on a wall. Not because they're trendy, but because their scientific origins make them work...

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Every Bird in William Morris's Designs: The Stories, The Patterns, and Where to Hang Them

Every Bird in William Morris's Designs: The Sto...

Miles Tanaka

Why birds obsessed William Morris more than any other motif Morris designed acanthus leaves, willow boughs, strawberries, tulips and pomegranates, but he kept coming back to birds. Between the 1870s...

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The Best Beige Art Prints for Bedrooms (And Exactly Where to Hang Them)

The Best Beige Art Prints for Bedrooms (And Exa...

Jasmine Okoro

Most guides tell you how to hang art, but not which beige prints actually suit a bedroom, or what size to buy for your specific bed. This one does both....

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The Most Famous William Morris Designs, Ranked: From Strawberry Thief to the Deep Cuts

The Most Famous William Morris Designs, Ranked:...

Jasmine Okoro

William Morris designed over 50 patterns in his lifetime, and roughly six of them get all the attention. That's mostly fair, but not entirely. Here's our honest ranking of the...

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Urban Jungle Interiors: Using Wall Art Instead of 47 Houseplants

Urban Jungle Interiors: Using Wall Art Instead ...

Clara Bell

The urban jungle look is having a moment that refuses to end. But most of the people pinning those plant-drenched living rooms will never own 47 monsteras, and that's fine....

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Room by Room: How to Hang William Morris Floral Prints in Your Home

Room by Room: How to Hang William Morris Floral...

Jasmine Okoro

You've fallen for Morris. The question now is which floral goes where, at what size, in what frame. This guide skips the Arts and Crafts lecture and gets straight to...

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Jungle Bedroom Ideas for Adults: Grown-Up Ways to Bring the Tropics Home

Jungle Bedroom Ideas for Adults: Grown-Up Ways ...

Clara Bell

Jungle bedrooms have a reputation problem. Search the term and you'll find nursery mood boards, cartoon monkeys, and bright kelly green walls that would keep anyone awake. The grown-up version...

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The Strawberry Thief: Everything You Need to Know Before Buying Morris's Most Famous Print

The Strawberry Thief: Everything You Need to Kn...

Clara Bell

Strawberry Thief is the William Morris design people search for by name. It's also the one most often bought badly: wrong size, wrong colourway for the room, wrong print quality...

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Our Favourite Jungle Prints for Every Room: The Curated Edit

Our Favourite Jungle Prints for Every Room: The...

Miles Tanaka

Jungle prints have a reputation problem. Done badly, they tip a room into themed-restaurant territory faster than almost any other trend. Done well, they add depth, movement and a sense...

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Thrushes, Hares, and Peacocks: The Animals in William Morris's Art and Why He Used Them

Thrushes, Hares, and Peacocks: The Animals in W...

Jasmine Okoro

Why Morris put animals at the centre of his designs William Morris wasn't decorating walls with cute creatures. He was making a quiet argument. While Victorian factories churned out cheap,...

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From Dutch Masters to Modern Minimalism: The Key Styles of Bouquet Art

From Dutch Masters to Modern Minimalism: The Ke...

Clara Bell

Search "types of flower bouquet art" and you'll get wedding centrepieces, posy guides, and cascading bridal arrangements. Useful if you're getting married. Useless if you're trying to choose what goes...

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Every Flower in William Morris's World: A Guide to His Botanical Designs

Every Flower in William Morris's World: A Guide...

Jasmine Okoro

William Morris designed roughly 50 wallpapers and around 30 chintzes across his career, and almost every single one features a plant. If you've ever stood in front of a Morris...

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What Colours Go With Bouquet Prints? Pairings Interior Designers Actually Use

What Colours Go With Bouquet Prints? Pairings I...

Clara Bell

You've found a bouquet print you love. Now you need to know if it will actually work above your sofa, opposite that mustard armchair, next to the curtains you spent...

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Boho Sun Wall Art: How to Nail the Look Without Your Room Feeling Like a Festival Tent

Boho Sun Wall Art: How to Nail the Look Without...

Miles Tanaka

Boho sun art has a reputation problem. Done badly, it screams student halls and macramé overload. Done well, it's one of the warmest, most grounding aesthetics you can put on...

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Every Animal in William Morris's Designs: The Complete Guide

Every Animal in William Morris's Designs: The C...

Jasmine Okoro

Most people know the thrush in Strawberry Thief and stop there. But Morris's wider body of work contains foxes, hares, peacocks, ravens, lions, herons, woodpeckers, deer, and doves, often half-buried...

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Countryside Decor Ideas: How to Bring Rural Calm Into Every Room

Countryside Decor Ideas: How to Bring Rural Cal...

Miles Tanaka

Countryside art has quietly become one of the most versatile choices in modern interiors. Not the chintz-and-bunting version, but the kind of soft, considered pastoral scenes that bring the outside...

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Arts and Crafts Animal Prints: The Victorian Design Movement That's All Over Instagram Right Now

Arts and Crafts Animal Prints: The Victorian De...

Jasmine Okoro

The Arts and Crafts revival: why Victorian animal prints are trending again Scroll through any interior design hashtag right now and you'll see them everywhere: hares peering through curling foliage,...

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