Plate 13 by Ogino Issui Canvas Print Size:90x120cm / 36x48in Skip anything too glossy or

Skip anything too glossy or colour-saturated nearby — it likes calm

real blue-and-white ceramics

Up it goes and the room feels a little warmer

rice-paper shades and stoneware in cream and clay

a low bench or a reading chair where the vertical shape can do its work

Plate 13 by Ogino Issui Canvas Print Size:90x120cm / 36x48in Skip anything too glossy orAgainst walnut, the olive and sand botanical reads less sweet, more deliberate. Issui's leaves and cobwebs sit against a near black ground threaded with red, cream and gold, and they bring quiet weight rather than colour. Put it up and a room slows down. It does its best work in studies, snugs and bedrooms where the walls are already warm or chalky, and where the lamps do most of the lifting after dark. Hang it on its own at eye level above a low