Bestseller

What Makes a Print a Bestseller

Bestsellers tell you something real — not what's fashionable this season, but what holds up across different rooms, tastes, and customers. The prints in this collection have been chosen repeatedly by people who could have picked anything from the catalog.

The consistently top-performing categories fall into a few clear groups. Hasui Kawase's snow and rain scenes are the most requested works we carry — Road to Nikko and Morning Sea at Shiribeshi appear in our top sellers every quarter. The combination of atmospheric stillness, colour precision, and historical significance makes them unusual at any price point. Contemporary abstract work by Jazzberry Blue and Dan Hobday moves continuously — bold colour and deliberate form designed with interior use in mind. Ernst Haeckel's scientific illustrations have built a following that surprises people — they sit in that rare overlap between decorative and genuinely interesting.

Choosing the Right Format

Most bestsellers are available on both fine art paper and canvas, and the format choice makes a real difference to how the print reads in a room. Paper preserves crisp lines, flat colour fields, and fine detail — the right choice for Japanese woodblock prints, illustrations, and typography. Canvas adds warmth and texture that suits the painterly qualities of Impressionist work, abstract compositions, and atmospheric landscapes.

Paper prints are available in A3, 50×70cm, 70×100cm, and A0, with oak, black, or walnut brown frames. Canvas prints come in 30×40cm, 50×70cm, and 70×100cm, with an optional floating frame for a gallery finish.

A practical note on size: go bigger than you think. A3 looks smaller on a wall than it does on screen. For most living room walls, 50×70cm or 70×100cm is where a print starts to read as art rather than decoration. If you're framing, oak is the most versatile choice — it works with both warm and cool palettes without competing.

Styling Popular Prints

The advantage of bestsellers is that they've been tested in hundreds of interiors already. Hasui Kawase landscapes work in almost any setting — the muted palette is universally compatible with warm woods, cream walls, and natural textiles. Abstract prints by Jazzberry Blue and Dan Hobday pair well in groups of two or three with matching frames. Haeckel's marine illustrations make strong grouped arrangements — a grid of four or six in matching oak frames creates an immediate gallery effect.

For related collections, explore our Japanese prints for more woodblock work, botanical prints for scientific illustration, or browse our living artists collection for the full range of contemporary artists we collaborate with directly.

Every print is produced in our Berlin studio using archival pigment inks rated for 100+ years.