The Art of the Gallery Wall

Most gallery walls fail for the same reason: everything on them is the same size, framed the same way, hung the same year. We build ours in from mismatched pairs — a large graphic piece, a small original, something functional like a clock — so the eye has somewhere to land first.

We lay every piece out on the floor before a single nail goes in the wall, and we leave the arrangement for a full day. Almost always, something moves.

The rule we hold to: leave one wall in the room bare. A gallery wall reads as intentional only when it isn't competing with itself elsewhere in the room.