Collection: Kitchen Wall Art

Why vintage fruit prints suit a kitchen

A kitchen is a room of colour and flavour. The yellow of a lemon, the red of a pomegranate or the green of a pineapple crown bring warmth to white walls, tiles and wooden shelves, and old botanical plates have an elegance that modern food photography lacks. All the prints in this collection come from old books, florilegia and museum collections.

Lemons, citrus and exotic fruit

Maria Sibylla Merian painted the fruits of Surinam with their insects at the beginning of the 18th century: her lemon tree with butterflies, her citron with a harlequin beetle and her pineapple are among the most beautiful kitchen prints there are. Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s purple fig and the oranges, grapes, melons and strawberries painted by Johann Walter in the 17th century complete this colourful orchard.

Fruit and insects from Renaissance manuscripts

For a more unusual look, the pears, cherries and walnuts painted by Joris Hoefnagel in the margins of a 16th-century calligraphy manuscript play with tiny insects and snails. More in our Joris Hoefnagel collection.

Still lifes and table scenes

Paul Gauguin’s Still Life with Teapot and Fruit, Van Gogh’s Basket of Apples and Carl Heinrich Bloch’s lively In a Roman Osteria bring painting to the table. For a touch of humour, Takahashi Hiroaki’s black cat and tomato plant or William Morris’s famous Strawberry Thief pattern work beautifully in a kitchen.

How to hang a print in a kitchen

Keep your print away from the hob and the sink, and frame it behind glass to protect it from steam and splashes. A pair of fruit plates side by side, such as Merian’s lemon and pineapple, works well above a table or a counter; a single 50x70 cm print fills a wall. Every print is available in 13 sizes, from A4 to A0. Printed on thick matte archival paper. Free shipping, no minimum order. Shipped rolled in a sturdy tube.