A while ago, we wrote about using grids as a way to increase the impact of small art. We showed a few ideas from Apartment Therapy homes, which we're augmenting today with some more inspirational photos from catalogs and designers...
- 1) In a city apartment by Phoebe Howard, a simple grid of line drawings looks very modern in square, natural wood frames.
- 2) The Game Room at the Sagamore Hotel uses a wraparound grid of black and white photos to add a graphic sensibility to the walls.
- 3) The Picturewall Company sells sets of frames that fit together like puzzle pieces, hanging on the wall in a tidy group. This combination sells for $280.
- 4) An old photo features record album frames from the CB2 catalogue. We love the way the stylist cut up one large photo into smaller framed sets.
- 5) This bedroom artwork arrangmenet from the Hülsta catalog shows a similar look, with a panoramic image that spans four canvases hung in a row.
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Comments (8)
1 and 2 look okay to me. 3 seems incredibly contrived. 4 and 5 have misaligned grids. What's the point if you don't make it perfect?
@fabframes
By misaligned, do you mean that there are gaps where the photo would otherwise align? I don't think anything looks imperfect about that -- it's just the nature of using multiple frames for a single image.
I love the orderliness of 3, but 2 is much too austere for me.
I really like a single image being broken up into multiple frames (as in #4), but I prefer to see the frames haphazard rather than in a grid in that case - grabbing different parts of the image and letting your eye complete the picture.
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I'm not crazy about most of these (4 is OK), but I really like that leather chair in the first picture.
I think I love everything in the first picture...
I showed my mom #3 when it first was posted on AT, and she said she saw something similar at Michael's:
http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayproductPage?productNum=fr0450
-Ruth
I think "misaligned" refers to the fact that the multiple images are a bit off-kilter from a perfect grid. That's a pet peeve of mine. If you're hanging a tight grouping like this, take the time to make it right.
Yes, I don't understand arranging art in an almost-perfect grid. So, some of the photos bug me.