Prints for office walls. Corridors and on stairs.

Corridors are tricky and so are stairs. If you put prints in a corridor will people look at them? Is there room for your visitors to stand back and appreciate the piece?

Are prints on stairs going to get damaged or is it indulgent?

Here I’m going talk about those tricky places in an office or a home where you want to put a print but wonder if it’s sensible.

Certainly less is more and there’s a real danger of overdoing things. Simplicity and theme is important. For example a set of black and white prints from the same city will work better than a mix of colour and black and white from all over the world. All night prints or all bridges are other ideas.

Stairs are another area where the practicality of a row of expensive prints can have its challenges. Will people damage them as they walk past? They may do, but if they are attached to the wall to prevent that - problem solved. I think prints on stairs are great. The client who owns the property above wasn’t so sure but they love the row of New York black and white prints. You’re more likely to knock the bowls off the stairs. You can see these prints in the New York black and while gallery.

There are also a few rules I follow with corridors. Only occasionally you can put in a long line of prints but corridors mostly have offices running off them. Pairs of prints in the spaces between the offices work well. Odd numbers work well on stairs. Not too big either. If the prints are too big you have to stand back to see them. You want your visitors to enjoy them as they walk past.