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Guides for specifying art
What Is Wabi Sabi Art? A Specifier's Guide to Imperfection
The brief says calm, warm, nothing loud. Then you open a supplier catalogue and every option is either a printed beige swirl or a piece of gallery abstraction that will fight the joinery. The gap between the mood board…
20 Entryway Wall Decor Ideas for Designers and Specifiers
Whatever hangs on that first wall decides what they expect from every room behind it, and a sales agent will stand in front of it for six months of viewings. It is also the wall most likely to come back wrong, because…
Wall Art Size Guide: How Big Should Your Wall Art Really Be?
The canvas you specified for that wall was sized against the old number, and it now reads short by a foot. In one private living room you move a floor lamp and carry on. Across a twelve suite handover, the same miss…
Wall Art for Bedroom Above Bed: How to Size and Specify It
The bed is dressed, the lamps are wired, the joinery is signed off. Then you look up and the wall above the headboard reads short, because the canvas you specified came in at 32 inches and the bed is a king. Nobody on…
How to Choose Wall Art for a Living Room: A Trade Guide
Above the sofa sits 3.2 metres of empty plaster. Your art line is approved, but your usual supplier stops at 120 cm on the long edge, and a 120 cm canvas floating over a 240 cm sofa will read as a mistake in every…
Palette Knife Painting: Specifying Textured Art for Client Walls
Everything works except the long wall behind the sofa. The print you shortlisted for it looked right on the mood board and now reads thin against the plaster, the boucle and the stone. Palette knife painting solves that…