The Frame

Exploring art, space, and the stories behind the frame


How to Build a Tropical Bird Gallery Wall That Actually Looks Intentional

How to Build a Tropical Bird Gallery Wall That ...

Jasmine Okoro

Tropical bird prints are some of the most rewarding gallery wall subjects you can choose, and also some of the easiest to get wrong. The colours are loud, the species...

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How to Build a Gallery Wall Around Flamingo Prints (Without It Looking Chaotic)

How to Build a Gallery Wall Around Flamingo Pri...

Miles Tanaka

Flamingo prints are having a moment. The trouble is, most people buy one, hang it alone, and then freeze when it comes to building anything around it. This guide solves...

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How to Decorate with Dragonfly Art Without It Feeling Theme-y

How to Decorate with Dragonfly Art Without It F...

Clara Bell

Dragonfly art has a reputation problem. Done badly, it reads as gift shop or grandmother's bathroom. Done well, it sits comfortably alongside ferns, abstracts, and tonal photography in some of...

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How to Build a Matisse Gallery Wall That Actually Looks Curated

How to Build a Matisse Gallery Wall That Actual...

Miles Tanaka

Most Matisse gallery walls fail for the same reason: too many prints, too many colours, no editorial logic. The good news is that Matisse's work is forgiving once you understand...

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How to Hang Canvas Art: The Only Guide You Actually Need

How to Hang Canvas Art: The Only Guide You Actu...

Jasmine Okoro

Hanging canvas art is the kind of thing people overthink until they've done it twice. The rules exist for good reasons, but they're guidelines, not commandments, and almost any mistake...

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How to Style Botanical Prints So They Don't Look Like a Dentist's Waiting Room

How to Style Botanical Prints So They Don't Loo...

Miles Tanaka

Botanical prints have a reputation problem. Hung wrong, they read as filler art, the kind of forgettable greenery you stare at while waiting for a root canal. Hung well, they're...

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How to Create an Edinburgh Gallery Wall That Actually Looks Considered

How to Create an Edinburgh Gallery Wall That Ac...

Clara Bell

Edinburgh is a city built for gallery walls. The dramatic skyline, the moody stone architecture, the sudden bursts of colour in Dean Village or the Grassmarket. The problem is that...

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How to Create an Escher Gallery Wall That Actually Works

How to Create an Escher Gallery Wall That Actua...

Miles Tanaka

Most gallery wall advice assumes you're hanging family photos or breezy abstract pastels. Escher is a different beast entirely. His tessellations and impossible architectures carry so much visual information that...

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How to Build a Cityscape Gallery Wall That Tells a Story

How to Build a Cityscape Gallery Wall That Tell...

Miles Tanaka

A gallery wall of cityscapes is one of the few decorating projects that gets better the more personal it becomes. The cities you've lived in, the skylines you've watched from...

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How to Style Matisse Prints in Every Room: A Practical Room-by-Room Guide

How to Style Matisse Prints in Every Room: A Pr...

Miles Tanaka

Matisse wanted his art to function like "a good armchair" for the tired mind. That intention is the entire reason his prints work so well at home: they were designed...

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How to Style Woman Art Prints So They Look Intentional, Not Random

How to Style Woman Art Prints So They Look Inte...

Clara Bell

You've bought a print you love. Now the wall around it looks slightly empty, slightly off, and you're not sure what to add without the whole thing turning into a...

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How to Build a Dog-Themed Gallery Wall That Looks Considered, Not Chaotic

How to Build a Dog-Themed Gallery Wall That Loo...

Miles Tanaka

Loving dog art is easy. Arranging six pieces of it on one wall without your house looking like a dog-themed gift shop is the hard part. This guide walks you...

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How to Plan a Hallway Gallery Wall That Actually Works

How to Plan a Hallway Gallery Wall That Actuall...

Clara Bell

Most gallery wall advice is some variation of "just trust your eye." If you trusted your eye, you wouldn't be reading this. What you need is a set of rules,...

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How to Build a Love Themed Gallery Wall That Actually Looks Cohesive

How to Build a Love Themed Gallery Wall That Ac...

Jasmine Okoro

Most love themed gallery walls fail for the same reason: they read as a pile of romantic prints rather than a considered collection. The fix is not buying better art....

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How to Create a Spring Gallery Wall That Actually Looks Intentional

How to Create a Spring Gallery Wall That Actual...

Jasmine Okoro

Most spring gallery walls go wrong for the same reason: they're a pile of "spring-ish" prints hung in a vaguely pleasing shape. Intentional gallery walls follow a small set of...

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How to Build a Gallery Wall Around Kandinsky Prints Without It Looking Like a Mess

How to Build a Gallery Wall Around Kandinsky Pr...

Jasmine Okoro

Kandinsky is harder to hang than almost any other artist. His compositions are loud, saturated, and full of competing geometric noise, which means standard gallery wall advice falls apart the...

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Decorating with Botanical Prints: A Room-by-Room Styling Guide

Decorating with Botanical Prints: A Room-by-Roo...

Clara Bell

Botanical prints have quietly become one of the most flexible categories in wall art, but mixing them well is harder than it looks. Pile up too many ferns and florals...

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How to Build a Pop Art Gallery Wall with Haring, Warhol, and Basquiat

How to Build a Pop Art Gallery Wall with Haring...

Clara Bell

Haring, Warhol, and Basquiat weren't just contemporaries. They were friends, collaborators, and rivals who defined downtown New York in the 1980s. Putting their work together on one wall isn't a...

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How to Build a Drink-Themed Gallery Wall That Actually Works

How to Build a Drink-Themed Gallery Wall That A...

Miles Tanaka

Drink-themed prints are everywhere. The hard part isn't finding them, it's arranging eight beautiful prints on a wall without ending up with something that looks like a pub's overflow storage....

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How to Build a London Gallery Wall That Doesn't Look Like a Tourist Shop

How to Build a London Gallery Wall That Doesn't...

Clara Bell

You love London. You also have a big blank wall. The risk is that your love for the city ends up looking like the inside of a souvenir kiosk near...

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