Sunlit Italian Village Art Print cocktail illustrations It wants a clear wall

It wants a clear wall — above a bed

or in a cheerful corner of the living room

where the vertical lines of the balconies have room to run

Brass candlesticks and a stoneware jug of olive branches will feel right at home

mustard and blue apartment blocks does the heavy lifting

Sunlit Italian Village Art Print cocktail illustrations It wants a clear wallIn the 1950s, this would have felt radical. It still does. A hand painted Italian hillside, all warm yellows, pink walls, terracotta roofs and a sky blue that genuinely lifts a room. Hang it and the wall stops being a wall it becomes the holiday you keep meaning to book. It works hardest where you spend cheerful, daily time: kitchen, dining room, sunny hallway, breakfast nook. Above a sideboard with a bowl of lemons in front of it, the whole corner