For a living room full of curves, this abstract brings the check. One heavy black stroke swings across an off-white ground and gives the whole room a clear line to look at. Rooms with soft sofas, rounded lamps and lots of texture often need something firm to push against, and this is it. Hang it above a sideboard, on a narrow hallway wall, or between two windows where the light keeps the off-white bright. Pair it with pale wood, cream fabric, black metal and simple stoneware. Keep the wall around it fairly empty and skip busy patterned art nearby the stroke needs room to move. As a canvas the black reads softer and matt, with no shine to fight the light.