On a warm afternoon, the cream looks almost illegally fresh. The two tall shapes do the rest one pale, one nearly black and suddenly a flat neutral wall has structure. It works hardest above a low sofa, a sideboard or a long console, where the width lines up with the furniture below and the vertical shapes stop the wall feeling empty. Keep the company simple: linen or boucl seating, a pale or dark timber surface, one stoneware bowl, plaster or off-white paint. Skip the busy patterned cushions and the row of small framed photos beside it competing detail flattens the contrast that makes this piece work. As a canvas the wide neutral areas pick up a soft painted texture.