Leather Layers in Tan and Cream Canvas Print

Leather Layers in Tan and Cream Canvas PrintIn the 1970s, this would have felt radical. It still does. Layered leather in cream, tan and warm brown quiet, grown up, and surprisingly bold once it's on the wall. Up goes the print and the room calms down. The warm browns soften hard edges, the cream sheet opens things up, and suddenly the rest of the room looks more deliberate. Hang it at eye level above a sideboard, console or low bookshelf. Works above a desk too. The portrait shape suits narrow

It brings warmth and a quiet sense of story to a room that needs a bit of charm

terracotta pots and a rust or mustard textile somewhere in the room

and earns its space in a hallway or by the stairs where people pass and look up

A folk illustration of swimmers under tall palms sets a calm

The painterly black records sharpen up the room

the matte surface knocks back glare and lets the colour blocks do the talking

or in a powder room where it sets the tone the second someone walks in

Lean into the warmth: pale oak

Avoid placing it next to other busy florals — it wants the room to itself

and any cream textiles in the room suddenly have a job to do

woven baskets and the odd knitted blanket in dusty pink or sage

this deep red peony study refuses to behave