Cockatoo and Pomegranate by Ohara Koson Canvas Print

Cockatoo and Pomegranate by Ohara Koson Canvas PrintIn 1910, this would have felt radical. It still does. A white bird against a pitch black ground, with red pomegranates bursting open above. Most rooms play it safe. This print doesn't. The black background does the heavy lifting. It pulls the room in, makes the white feathers glow, and turns the red fruit into small fires across the wall. Walls feel deeper. Lamplight feels warmer. It suits a study, a reading corner, or a darker bedroom. Hang it above

Hang it where you want a quick lift in mood: above a child's bed

Above a sofa

This is a vintage afternoon tea

Put it up and the room loosens by a notch

Walls feel more deliberate

Skip busy patterned wallpaper or another bright travel print on the same wall — this one wants the floor to itself

the cream of your worktop reads a little sweeter

or in a bright kitchen where the colour gets to do its job

Hang it and the wall stops feeling like a wall

the eye stops drifting

Don't crowd it with other busy travel posters — let it be the holiday on the wall

and a little brass on lamps or handles