New York City Brownstones in Blue Art Print

New York City Brownstones in Blue Art PrintFrom the doorway, the vertical reads clean. Up close, not polite. The scratchy ink lines and bright blue washes start showing themselves, and the room gets a bit louder in a good way. Put it up and the room stops feeling settled. The blues lift cooler walls, the mustard and terracotta warm everything sitting around it, and the loose lines give a quiet room a heartbeat. It works best on a wall you walk past every day hallway, living room, study. It

A bare wall above a dressing table gets a focal point that's romantic without being sugary

or above a small writing desk

or the foot of a bed

Looks especially good in a slim oak frame

golden hills and a deep blue ridge under a soft sky

Don't crowd it with other busy pattern

Matisse's 1906 portrait of a woman with a flowering branch brings colour the room can't ignore — red

One disco pear is the joke

and the room reads younger and more confident for it

the bed looks less staged

Not enough navy

a black frame sharpens it into a cleaner travel-poster look