New Year's Day in Edo by Hiroshige Art Print cubist paintings Choose an oak or white

Choose an oak or white frame to keep that feeling intact

It gives a quiet kitchen a sense of humour without tipping into kitsch

the frog adds the joke

Here's the trick: let the warm orange coffee crema cut through all that pale oak and cream tile

painted walls and woven baskets

New Year's Day in Edo by Hiroshige Art Print cubist paintings Choose an oak or whiteThere's a reason Hiroshige kept returning to snow scenes; rooms still respond. The deep night sky, soft snow and a flash of red shrine fencing bring quiet weight to a wall without darkening it. It earns its keep above a low sideboard, in a narrow hallway or beside a reading chair, where the figures with parasols give the eye something to wander over. Pair it with dark stained wood, linen, paper shades and stoneware in earthy tones. Plaster, off white