Kew Gardens Butterfly Exhibition Poster Canvas Print botanical pattern busy gallery walls and heavy

busy gallery walls and heavy dark furniture nearby — this one needs a little breathing room

A living room this pared back can take one serious mustard yellow

It plays nicely with walnut

The warm orange foreground pulls eyes from across the room

not just a pattern

Kew Gardens Butterfly Exhibition Poster Canvas Print botanical pattern busy gallery walls and heavySomewhere between vintage natural history plates and London Underground travel poster design, this butterfly study refuses to behave. Two large moths sit in soft pink, dusty blue and cream against a blush ground, with a Kew Gardens Exhibition title block underneath. Put it up and the room softens. The pink ground reads as a warm wash from across the room, and up close the wings turn into floral pattern and tiny eye spots. It pulls a bedroom or