Upward by Wassily Kandinsky Canvas Print

Upward by Wassily Kandinsky Canvas PrintWhat's the study missing? Deep green with some nerve. Kandinsky's stacked figure of circles, half circles and angular blocks reads as a quiet face once you've sat with it, and the mottled green behind it gives the wall actual weight. Hang it where it can hold its own above a writing desk, in a hallway between doorways, or as the lone piece over a low sideboard. Pair it with oak or walnut, a tan leather chair, a stoneware lamp, linen curtains. Skip the

the room calms down

and the colours stay easy on the eye for years

Best kept away from busy patterned wallpaper that fights the type

rust or terracotta upholstery

Anywhere people pause for a second and look up

the deep olive green doesn't soften the room

and quieter furniture starts to read as restful rather than plain

not weight

This one lays out golden empanadas

A serious study turns into a den

The room gains a confident accent colour and a bit of humour

particularly walls painted off-white