What Do Britons Hang on Their Walls? Subject Analysis of 20,000 Art Orders

Furniture in Fashion has examined how British households actually choose wall art, and the first point is what this report does not contain. We do not publish our order data, and no independent UK source measures wall art subject matter at national scale, so no subject ranking is presented here. What our editorial analysis does establish is that format leads subject. The proportions of the available wall, the light in the room and the furniture beneath narrow the realistic options before taste enters the decision, which is why wide horizontal walls attract landscape and abstract bands while tall narrow returns attract botanical and architectural studies. The most common fault in UK homes is art hung too small and too high: the working convention centres a piece at roughly 145cm to 150cm from the floor, and art above a sofa reads best at around two thirds of the sofa width, 15cm to 20cm above the back....