On a warm afternoon, the deep green looks almost illegally fresh. Rousseau’s jungle leans out of the frame orange fruit, curious monkeys, a tangle of leaves under a pale sky. The room shifts the moment it goes up. Walls feel softer, the green pulls warmth out of timber and rattan, and the orange fruit gives the eye somewhere to land. Best hung at eye-level above a sofa, sideboard or reading chair, where you can lean in to find the next monkey. Pair with linen, cane, oak and a little brass. Keep ceramics in cream or warm brown. Avoid hanging it beside other busy jungle scenes or anything tropical-print this one wants to be the loudest plant in the room. Stretched over a wooden frame and ready to hang straight from the box.