Yes, William Morris knew how to charm a room and how to cut. This Strawberry Thief exhibition poster pulls his famous garden bird out of the wallpaper and gives it a quiet cream background and tidy black lettering to sit inside.

Up on the wall, the room shifts gently. The soft greens settle the eye, the mustard bird gives it a focal point, and the deep red strawberries warm the whole thing up without shouting. It reads as pattern from a distance and as illustration up close.

It earns its keep in a bedroom, a hallway, or above a kitchen dresser. Painted off-white walls, oak or pine, and a bit of brass do most of the work around it.

Pair it with linen, ticking stripes, cream stoneware and one good botanical nearby.

Don’t drown it in competing pattern. One Morris voice in the room is plenty. Stretched over a wooden frame and ready to hang.