Yes, modern illustration knew how to charm a room and how to cut. The cut here is the sharp blue sky: it stops the pastels from going syrupy and gives the whole picture a clean edge.

Put it up and a quiet room picks up a holiday register without tipping into theme-park coastal. The pinks soften the wall, the turquoise pool draws the eye down, and the small figures give you something to find on a second look.

It hangs best above a bed, a low chest of drawers, or in a hallway you walk past in daylight. Eye level or just above. Give it a bit of breathing room it’s a scene, not a pattern, and it needs the wall around it.

Pair it with pale timber, linen, white-painted wood and soft pink ceramics. Brushed brass works. Stoneware in clay or off-white works.

Don’t crowd it with other busy travel scenes or strong primary colours the palette is doing the work, and competing pictures will flatten it. Stretched over a wooden frame and re