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Wall art, room by room

The room decides more than taste does — how far back you stand, and whether you see the piece by daylight or by lamplight. These edits are cut along those constraints.

ArtMarket cuts its gallery into 3 room edits, priced €40–€280: living room, bedroom and home office. Each gathers the works whose scale, palette and mood suit that space — bold and conversational for a sofa wall, calm and atmospheric above a bed, clean and structured over a desk. Every print is hand-signed and ships unframed.

Rooms
3
Works
130
Price range
€40–€280

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Living Room Art

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Living Room Art

48 works

Bedroom Art

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Bedroom Art

48 works

Home Office Art

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Home Office Art

31 works

Why room is the useful question

Most advice about buying art starts with taste. In practice the room decides more than taste does: how far back you stand from the wall, whether you see the piece standing or lying down, whether it is lit by a window at midday or a lamp at nine in the evening. A work that is right in a hallway can be unreadable above a sofa, and the reverse happens just as often.

These edits are cut along those constraints. Each one is a filtered view of the same 130 works, priced €40–€280,, so a print can appear in more than one, and every piece in every edit is hand-signed by its artist and ships unframed and rolled.

Living room, bedroom, home office

Living-room work is scaled for a sofa wall and picked for palettes that hold up in both daylight and lamplight. The two-thirds rule applies here more than anywhere: art above a sofa should span roughly two-thirds of the sofa's width, whether you hang one piece or a group. This is the wall guests read first, so it can afford to be the boldest thing in the room.

Bedroom work runs to softer contrast and quieter subjects, and is usually hung lower than elsewhere because it is mostly seen from a seated or lying position. Home-office work has a harder job than it looks: sharp enough to read as a deliberate background on a video call, calm enough to sit behind a screen all day. Geometric and architectural subjects do well there; very high-contrast pieces tire the eye over a working week.

Sizing and hanging, whichever room

Prints come in two formats, which covers the two jobs most rooms need: a single piece that anchors a wall, and a smaller sheet that works in a pair or a group. Sizes across the room edits run 40×30 – 60×40 cm. Centre the piece at roughly eye level — about 145 cm to the middle of the image — and drop that a little in a bedroom, where you will usually be below it.

Everything ships unframed and rolled in a rigid tube. That is deliberate rather than a saving: the frame is the part of the decision that depends most on the room, and a frame chosen in a warehouse rarely survives contact with a real wall. A generous mat border in an off-the-shelf frame is enough for most of these, and a local framer is worth it for the larger format.

Questions about choosing art for a room

How do I choose art for a specific room?

Start from the constraint the room imposes rather than from taste. Living-room work is scaled to the sofa wall and needs a palette that survives both daylight and lamplight. Bedroom work runs to softer contrast and is hung lower, because it is mostly seen from a seated or lying position. Home-office work has to read well on a video call without tiring the eye over a working day.

How big should a print above a sofa be?

Roughly two-thirds of the sofa's width, counted across the whole arrangement rather than the single sheet — so a 2-metre sofa wants about 130 cm of art, which can be one large piece or three smaller ones hung with a consistent gap.

How high should art be hung?

Centre the image at about 145 cm from the floor, which puts the middle of the piece at eye level for most people standing. Drop it in a bedroom, where you are usually below it, and above a sofa or a desk measure from the furniture instead: 25–30 cm of clear wall between the top of the sofa back and the bottom of the frame.

What sizes are the prints, and can I hang them as a pair?

Works in the room edits run 40×30 – 60×40 cm. The smaller format is the one that works in pairs and groups — hang them with a consistent gap of around 5–8 cm and align either the tops or the centres, not both. The larger format is usually better on its own as the anchor of a wall.

Can the same print work in more than one room?

Often, yes — the room edits are filtered views of the same 130 works, so a piece can appear in two of them. Where a work only appears in one, it is usually because of contrast: a very high-contrast image that anchors a living room will keep a bedroom feeling awake.

Do the prints arrive framed?

No. Every print ships unframed and rolled in a rigid tube, which is deliberate rather than a saving — framing is the part of the decision that depends most on the room, and a frame chosen in a warehouse rarely survives contact with a real wall.