Artwork Grids, 5 (More) Ways

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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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?

posted by fabframes on September 3rd 2009 at 2:51pm
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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.

posted by akay on September 3rd 2009 at 3:42pm
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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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posted by MODERnestS on September 3rd 2009 at 3:44pm
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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.

posted by slowdown on September 3rd 2009 at 4:36pm
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I think I love everything in the first picture...

posted by Daniel Poitiers on September 3rd 2009 at 5:50pm
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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

posted by cptnruthless on September 3rd 2009 at 6:36pm
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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.

posted by visualingual on September 4th 2009 at 7:59am
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Yes, I don't understand arranging art in an almost-perfect grid. So, some of the photos bug me.

posted by fabframes on September 4th 2009 at 4:20pm
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