Oxhey Woods by E. McKnight Kauffer Canvas Print

Oxhey Woods by E. McKnight Kauffer Canvas PrintBecause Kauffer knew restraint, the deep green hits harder here. A 1915 London Underground poster of Oxhey Woods, rendered in flat blocks of forest green, mustard and warm brown. Put it up and a quiet room gets a proper focal point. The dark background holds the wall, the mustard path pulls the eye in, and the whole thing has the easy confidence of early modern poster design. It earns its keep in a hallway, study, reading corner or above a console

especially on a chalky off-white or warm putty wall where the candy facades can sing

more holiday than weekday

a woven basket and a brass desk lamp finish it off

and the warm orange and yellow building fronts pull the eye down the avenue

Put it up and the wall starts to feel like a window onto an English garden in full summer

breezier mood — think morning windows open

The colours are bold but not chaotic — deep red

so a quiet living room or bedroom suddenly feels a little more relaxed and a little more considered

the pink stucco looks almost illegally fresh

blushed apricot into sunset orange

Keep the wall around it calm — chalky off-white

or down a narrow hallway where a single vertical piece does more than three smaller ones