The Frame
Exploring art, space, and the stories behind the frame
Vintage Botanical Prints: A No-Nonsense Guide t...
Vintage botanical prints are having a moment, and the internet is flooded with them. Most are terrible. Here's how to tell the real craftsmanship from the glossy, over-filtered reproductions, and...
The Greenhouse Aesthetic: How to Bring Victoria...
The greenhouse aesthetic has quietly taken over interiors Pinterest, design magazines and the walls of some very photogenic flats. The catch: almost every guide you'll find assumes you own an...
The Best Art for Conservatory Walls (That Won't...
Most people leave their conservatory walls bare, and it's not because they don't want art there. It's because they're quietly worried about fading, warping, and whether anything will look right...
Vintage Frog Prints: From 18th-Century Naturali...
Frogs have been drawn, painted and engraved for over 300 years, long before they became the unlikely stars of modern wall art. The best vintage frog prints sit at a...
Frog Art for the Bathroom: Why It Works and How...
Frog art has quietly become one of the most-searched subjects for bathroom walls, and it's not hard to see why. The pairing makes sense on an instinctive level, but the...
Decorating with Frog Art: How to Make It Look I...
Frog art has a reputation problem. Mention it and people picture cartoon prints in a nursery, or worse, a novelty tea towel someone brought back from a garden centre. Done...
Vintage Cup Prints: From Dutch Still Life to Mo...
Cups have been quietly starring in paintings for nearly 400 years. What began as a way for Dutch merchants to show off their imported porcelain has become one of the...
Styling Van Gogh Botanical Prints in Every Room...
Van Gogh's botanicals are some of the most reproduced artworks on the planet, which means they're also some of the most badly hung. This is a room-by-room guide to placing...
Every Famous Flower Painting by Van Gogh, Expla...
Van Gogh painted flowers more than almost any other subject. Not because they were pretty, but because they were cheap, patient, and gave him something to say when words failed....
Sunflower Art for Kitchens: The Prints, Sizes, ...
Sunflower prints are one of the most requested motifs for kitchens, and one of the most badly hung. This guide gives you exact measurements, three foolproof placements, and a straight...
From Van Gogh to Modern Botanical: Every Style ...
Sunflower art is everywhere, but almost nobody explains the difference between a vintage botanical plate, a post-impressionist reproduction, and a modern photographic close-up. This guide fixes that. By the end...
Transform Every Room with Sunflower Wall Decor ...
Sunflower art is easy to love and surprisingly easy to get wrong. Too big, too yellow, too many, and a warm motif turns into a Pinterest cliché. This guide walks...
From Chintz to Contemporary: Every Type of Flor...
"Floral" is one of the least useful words in interiors. It covers everything from a delicate pressed fern to a wall-sized peony in neon pink. If you've ever said "I...
Best Floral Prints for a Bedroom: A Room-by-Roo...
Bedrooms are the one room in the house where you look at your art from six inches away, half asleep, every single morning. That changes the rules. This guide covers...
You're Overthinking Floral Wall Art: A Room-by-...
You want florals on your walls. You also don't want your flat to look like a Cotswolds tearoom circa 1997. That tension is the entire reason this guide exists. Why...
Vintage Lemon Prints: From 18th Century Botanic...
Lemons have been showing up in Western art for nearly 400 years, and the visual language we still use today, glossy fruit floating against pale paper with a curl of...
Citrus Prints for Kitchen Walls: Where to Hang ...
Citrus art in kitchens has a bad reputation, and mostly it's deserved. Too many cartoon lemons, too many chalkboard-style oranges, too many prints that look lifted from a chain restaurant....
Why Does Water Lily Art Work in Every Room of Y...
Water lilies sit in a rare category of art: soft enough for a bedroom, structured enough for a hallway, humid-tolerant enough for a bathroom. This guide tells you exactly where...
Van Gogh Botanical Prints vs Traditional Botani...
Both traditions put plants on your wall, but they do wildly different things once they get there. Traditional botanical illustration is quiet, precise, and pattern-friendly. Van Gogh's flowers and gardens...
William Morris vs Art Nouveau: What Style Is It...
Short version: William Morris was not Art Nouveau. He was Arts and Crafts, a movement he helped invent. The two styles overlap enough to confuse almost everyone, and getting the...