For a kitchen full of curves, this still life brings the check. The plate, the glass, the fork a small Italian dinner pinned to the wall in soft pink, tomato red and deep blue.

What changes when it goes up: the room stops being just a workspace and starts feeling like somewhere people eat slowly. The hand-painted lettering adds personality without shouting, and the colour palette plays nicely with most kitchen finishes.

Hang it above a small dining table, between cabinets, or beside the coffee machine. It also earns its keep in a breakfast nook or a little Italian-leaning trattoria corner.

Pair it with rattan chairs, a checked tablecloth, blue-and-white china, a brass pendant, or open shelves of cookbooks and olive oil.

Don’t bury it behind clutter or hang it next to a serious landscape it wants to be the cheerful thing in the room. Stretched on a wooden frame with a soft matte surface that suits busy kitchens.