Every La Nuit print comes in two sizes, 50 x 70 cm and 70 x 120 cm, framed in matte black or matte white. Both are portrait. The choice between them is less about the drawing than about the wall it is going on, so here is how each behaves.
50 x 70 cm
This is the size for a wall that already has something on it, or a room that is not large. It sits well above a chest of drawers, a desk, a bar cart or a console, beside a door, or in a hallway. It is the size that pairs: two 50 x 70 frames side by side with about 8 cm between them make a strong composition above a double bed, and Connection and Hug were drawn as that pair. It also suits the pieces built on humour, Wine Bar and Wine Cat, which are better met at close range than across a room.
Minimum wall it needs: about 90 cm of clear width so the frame has air around it.
70 x 120 cm
This is a statement size. It fills the space above a queen or king bed on its own, anchors the main wall of a living room, and holds a stairwell or a double-height hall. Sparse compositions gain the most from it: Three Lines and Excorsim use the empty paper as part of the drawing, and at 70 x 120 that emptiness becomes generous rather than small. A dense piece like Connection at this size lets you read the individual hands from across the room.
Minimum wall it needs: about 150 cm of clear width, and a ceiling of at least 240 cm so the frame is not squeezed between furniture and cornice.
The two rules that settle most decisions
- Over furniture, the frame should be between half and three-quarters the width of the piece below it. A 160 cm bed wants a frame 80 to 120 cm wide, which is the 70 x 120 or a pair of 50 x 70s. A 100 cm console wants 50 to 75 cm, which is the 50 x 70.
- On an open wall, the frame should take roughly 60 percent of the width you can see as one surface. Measure the wall between the things that break it (a window, a door, a wardrobe) and choose the size that fills a little over half of it.
The masking tape test
Before ordering, mark the frame's outer edges on the wall with low-tack masking tape at the height it would hang: 50 x 70 or 70 x 120, with the centre at about 145 cm from the floor, or 15 to 25 cm above a headboard. Live with the tape for a day. Stand in the doorway, lie on the bed, look at it in evening light. If it looks slightly too big on the wall, it is right; frames almost always look smaller once there is a drawing inside them.
What does not change with size
Both sizes are printed on the same fine-art matte paper, mounted, framed in solid wood behind anti-glare glazing, and shipped ready to hang with fixings in the box. Each is made to order in the size and frame colour you choose, which is why framed art is replaced rather than returned if it arrives damaged or wrong; the returns page has the detail.
Choose the piece first in the Arts collection, then use the room photographs on each product page to see it at scale.
