Le Grand Bois by Matisse Canvas Print

Le Grand Bois by Matisse Canvas PrintPut bluntly, your living room can carry more black ink than it thinks. A single graphic figure on warm cream pulls the eye, calms the chatter on the wall, and gives quieter pieces something confident to sit beside. Hang it above a console, a low sideboard or a reading chair, somewhere it can be looked at properly. It pairs well with linen upholstery, pale or mid toned wood, plaster walls and a few good ceramics. Keep the styling around it spare one

where people pause for a second on the way past

Don't crowd it with busy florals or dark heavy frames — it wants air

Don't crowd it with other busy portraits or anything trying equally hard — this one wants to be the joke in the room

or in a hallway that needs a jolt of colour

It gives a room one strong

chrome or brushed brass taps

the starbursts stop looking decorative and start working

and creamy plaster walls

the bright blue sea and the tiny figures on the steps pull the eye in and set the tone for everything else on the wall

The quote does the work: a wry nod to anyone who buys books faster than they can read them

dream and live — set in clean typewriter letters on an off-white background

sets the colour tone of the room