Living with the work

A print is finished when it is on a wall. What follows is how we would hang it, in the measurements we actually use in the size guide — so the two pages never tell you different things.

Start with one

Choose the work that holds your attention longest and give it room. A generous margin of empty wall around a single print reads as confidence, not as a gap waiting to be filled.

Height

On a free wall, the center of the image sits 57 inches above the floor. That is the museum standard, and it is set to the eye of someone standing.

Over furniture the rule changes, and this is where most walls go wrong: hang the bottom edge 8 to 10 inches above the back of the sofa or the sideboard. Measured from the floor, that is usually lower than 57 inches — and it is right, because the print belongs to the furniture, not to the room.

Groups

Keep the gap between frames the same everywhere: 2 inches is the spacing our set drawings are built on. Align the group to a shared edge or to a shared center line, and let it be a quiet grid. Three in a row; six or eight in two rows; nine as a square; ten as a long band, five across and two down, for a wall above a sofa or along a hallway.

A group reads as one piece when the sheets share a size and an orientation. That is why our sets do.

Light

Pigment inks on this paper are made to last, but nothing survives direct sun. Keep the print off a wall that takes midday light, and out of the beam of a spotlight aimed straight at it. Ordinary interior light is what it was made for.

Framing

Our sizes are American standards, so a ready-made frame fits. If you frame it yourself, leave the white border visible — it is part of the sheet, and it is where the printed signature sits.

Considering a particular wall? Write to us at studio@divineeditions.com and say what is on it now. We are glad to think about it with you.

The size guide has the drawings, to scale, with a sofa for reference.

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