JOURNAL
Notes on rooms, proportion and the quiet a wall can hold.
Shorter than the guides and less about numbers. Each note starts from a feeling in a room and works back to the geometry that produces it.
LATEST · EVENING
How to set up a wall you can switch off in front of.
Not a wall to be impressed by. A wall to sit under at nine in the evening with the lamp on, that asks nothing. Five decisions, in order.
Every other wall in a home is looked at deliberately: the one behind the dining table, the one a guest sees from the door. The wall behind the evening chair is different. Nobody looks at it on…
CALM
Why the golden ratio calms the eye.
Not because it is sacred. Because a proportion the eye can resolve without effort is a proportion it can stop working on — and stopping is what calm is.
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SLOW LIVING
Wall art for slow living: a room that keeps the noise out.
A wall is the largest surface you look at without meaning to. Choosing what is on it is choosing what your evenings feel like.
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OBJECT
The nautilus as an object of meditation.
One curve, followed inward. Why a spiral is the oldest attention exercise there is, and how to hang one so it works.
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LIGHT
Gold and darkness: why quiet rooms need contrast.
Calm is not pale. A dark ground with one line of gold gives the eye somewhere to go and somewhere to rest — which is more than a beige wall can offer.
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THE GUIDES
How to hang wall art using the golden ratioIN THE ROOMWhat size wall art for every room: the golden-ratio tableIN THE ROOMAll nineteen guidesTHE GEOMETRY · IN THE ROOM · FOR VENUESThe works behind the notes.
Forty works, each drawn on the golden ratio. Printable downloads from €34, museum-grade prints to 90 cm.
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