Not because it’s gold, but because it refuses to fade back. A room with warm off-white or deep green walls stops feeling flat the moment this goes up the gold ground throws light around, and the pink peonies and hanging wisteria keep it soft rather than showy. Hang it in a dining room above a sideboard, in a bedroom above the headboard, or at the far end of a hallway where you need something to walk towards. It sits happily with velvet, dark wood, cane and brass, and with blue-and-white china on a shelf below. Don’t crowd it with other patterned pieces give it clear wall either side. On fine-art paper the gold reads soft and matte, closer to a painted panel.