What’s the kitchen missing? Deep red with some nerve. This is one of those pieces that stops a room being polite. The checkerboard does the heavy lifting it reads as pattern from across the room, then resolves into a bird up close. Hang it on a plain painted wall, above a small dresser or in the gap beside a doorway where nothing else quite fits. It sits happily with painted cabinets, cream walls, cane chairs and everyday stoneware. Skip the temptation to hang it near another strong pattern checks against stripes or florals turns into noise fast. Give it a clear stretch of wall and let the grid do its job. On fine-art paper the brush marks and dry-edged squares stay crisp.