What it adds isn’t clutter. It’s horizontal tension in the right places. The warm pink ground does the heavy lifting, and the two teal birds hold the two ends of the wall steady. Put it up and a flat, quiet room suddenly has a centre of gravity pink walls warm up, off-white walls stop looking bare, soft green panelling looks deliberate. It sits well above a bed, a sideboard or a dining console, hung low enough that you read the blossom detail from a chair. Pair it with velvet, cane, brass and dark wood. Don’t crowd it with other florals or a busy patterned wallpaper this piece is the pattern, so let the wall around it stay plain. As canvas, the painted surface reads softer and more mural-like from across the room.