Top 5

Best London-themed wall art

Mike Pollitt | Thursday 25 November, 2010 11:40

What could be worse than a bare, featureless wall? It’s a crime against decor. Here, Londonites, are five ways you can fill that gaping void above the couch.

Vintage transport posters
London Transport Museum sells reprints of vintage posters ranging from wartime propaganda through to the modern stuff warning you to check about the closure of the Jubilee Line. They’re so good Snipe has mentioned them before. Look at them. Now.

Minimalist film posters
These are great. Granted, there’s only one London themed one in the whole batch but Top 5s have been built on less than that before. The Titantic one is particularly fine.

Classic map prints
Maps on walls may be a student cliche, but don’t let that put you off. Conventionality sets you free, you’ll learn that when you’re older and you stop trying to be different all the time. Old London maps are especially great as they can be used to plan grisly murder trails.

Sherlock Holmes book poster
Snipe’s love for these posters, which use the text of the book to create an image from it, is everlasting and unconditional. Magnificent.

Contemporary London artists
If you hanker after the new, then why not go straight to the artists and designers creating work in this city right this second. The above is just one example out of many that has caught Snipe’s roving eye.

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