A line drawing is mostly empty paper. That is its strength on a wall, and it is also why placement and light matter more for line art than for a dense painting. A few rules, learned from hanging a lot of it.
Which wall
In a bedroom there are three natural positions. Above the bed is the statement position, and the one that a large piece is made for. The wall you see from the bed is the one you will actually look at, which suits a piece with detail worth returning to. A dressing area or the wall beside a door is where a smaller, wittier piece sits comfortably without asking to be the centre of the room.
Above the bed, the frame should be narrower than the headboard, and there should be roughly 15 to 25 cm between the top of the headboard and the bottom of the frame. Any more and the piece floats; any less and it crowds.
How high
The centre of the drawing, not the frame, should sit at about 145 to 150 cm from the floor on an open wall. That is eye level for most people standing, and it is the height galleries use. Over furniture, ignore that rule and relate the frame to the furniture instead, as above.
Glazing and glare
Every La Nuit print is framed behind anti-glare glazing, which cuts reflection but does not remove it. Two things finish the job: hang the piece opposite or perpendicular to the window rather than facing it, and avoid a bare bulb in the direct line between the viewer and the glass. If you can see the ceiling light reflected in the glazing from the bed, move the light or the frame.
Light colour
Most of our drawings are black or charcoal on cream. Cool white light (4000 K and above) turns cream into grey and makes the paper look like a copy. Warm light at 2700 K, the colour of a candle or a tungsten bulb, keeps the cream warm and lets the line sit forward. A dimmable warm lamp near the piece, or a picture light on the frame, is the single biggest improvement you can make after hanging it well.
Frame colour
Each print is available in a matte black or a matte white solid wood frame. Black draws a hard edge and reads as more graphic, which suits a bold monochrome such as Ace. White disappears into a pale wall and lets the drawing float, which suits the charcoal pieces, Connection and Hug, and the sparse ones like Three Lines. If the wall is dark, either frame works; choose by the mood you want, not the wall.
Hardware
Fixings come in the box. A 50 x 70 cm frame hangs happily on a single hook; a 70 x 120 cm frame should hang from two, spaced about a third of the frame width apart, so it stays level and the weight is shared. On a plasterboard wall use an anchor rated for the frame's weight, not a bare screw.
The full range is in the Arts collection, each piece shown in a room so you can judge its scale before you choose a size.
