Displaying Pictures: A Complete Guide to Framing, Arranging and Lighting Paintings, Prints and Photographs

This unique book brings together hundreds of imaginative ideas for using pictures - and their frames and mounts - to add style and individuality to a home. Nearly 200 colour illustrations show how to choose the right frame for the right style of picture and put it in exactly the right place. Paintings, Prints and Photographs can transform the mood of rooms, halls or stairways if they are considered not in isolation but in relation to their surroundings. Considerations of height, scale and grouping make all the difference between an effective display and one that looks unsettling wrong. In Displaying Pictures, specially commissioned photographs give clear guidelines not only for hanging and lighting pictures but also for arranging them in a coherent way. A feature section looks at how seven leading designers, in Britain, France and America, have used pictures in their own homes as an element of individual style. Expert advice is given, too, on every aspect of framing, so that you can confidently commission a professional framer or make simple frames yourself. In addition to a visual catalogue of framing styles, there is guidance on the different requirements of oild, watercolours, etchings, drawings, prints, photographs and posters. With its double viewpoint of picture framing and interior design, Displaying Pictures is full of inspiration as well as practical advice.