Printed and framed per order
Every piece in the Studio Sakaia collection is printed and framed only once you order it. There is no warehouse of finished canvases waiting to be picked, and no fixed run of sizes decided in advance and mass-produced. When you choose a piece, that specific print and frame combination is produced for your wall.
This is a different model from most art retail, where a handful of standard sizes are printed in batches and held in stock until sold. It costs us more in process than stocking pre-made inventory would, but it means the piece you hang was made because you chose it for a specific wall, not pulled from a shelf because it was the closest size available.
Size run flexibility, and the two-thirds rule you can actually hit
The most useful design rule for wall art is simple: above a sofa or console, the artwork should span roughly two thirds of the furniture width below it. Most people who try to follow that rule run into the same problem. The piece they love is only available in two or three fixed sizes, none of which lands anywhere close to two thirds of their actual wall.
Because our pieces are produced per order rather than pulled from pre-cut stock, the size run is wide, from a scale that suits a reading corner or a powder room up to formats built for double-height walls and long consoles. That range is what makes the two-thirds rule something you can actually hit, rather than an idea you approximate with whatever size happens to be in stock. You measure the wall first, then choose the size that fits it, not the other way around.
Choosing size and medium per wall
Every wall asks a different question. A tall, narrow stair void wants something different from a wide living room wall above a low console, and a bedroom wall behind a headboard wants a calmer, more contained piece than an entry wall that has to greet everyone who walks through the door.
Start with the wall's dimensions and the furniture beneath it, then choose a size before you choose a subject. Medium matters here too. A tonal abstract like the Blush and Grey Soft Abstract reads calmly at scale in a bedroom, holding its palette without competing with the room, while a warmer, more textured piece like an oil seascape can carry a larger, more social wall on its own. Choosing the size and medium together, rather than picking a favourite image and hoping it fits, is what makes a made-to-order piece feel inevitable in its wall rather than merely large enough.
The intentionality argument
There is a real difference between a piece that arrives because it was the right size for the space you measured, and a piece bought because it was already the right size on the shelf. The first is a decision. The second is a compromise dressed up as a purchase.
That difference is not abstract. A room built around a piece chosen specifically for its wall tends to hold together in a way a room with art added afterward rarely does. The art was part of the plan, not a finishing touch applied once everything else was settled. Made to order is what makes that kind of intentionality possible at every size, not just the sizes a warehouse happened to have printed already.
How ordering works at Sakaia
The process is straightforward by design. Browse the collection and find a piece whose palette and subject suit the room. Enquire, and tell us the wall, the dimensions, and the furniture nearby. We confirm the size that fits the two-thirds rule for that specific wall, and the frame that suits the room. The piece is then made and delivered.
There is no showroom visit required to start, and no obligation to know your exact size before you enquire. Most conversations start with a photo of the wall and a rough sense of what is missing from it. We take it from there.
Rooms designed around art
Increasingly, our studio designs interiors around a collection piece rather than adding art at the end of a project. A bedroom built around the palette of the Blush and Grey Soft Abstract, for instance, lets the artwork set the tone for the linens, the joinery colour, and the accent pieces around it, rather than asking the art to match a palette that was already fixed.
This is a genuinely different way of working, and it is only possible because the collection is made to order. When a piece can be produced at whatever size a room's design calls for, it can lead the room instead of following it.
Start with a wall or a room
Whether you are filling one bare wall or planning a room from scratch, the process is the same: start with the space, choose a piece whose palette belongs there, and let the size follow the wall rather than the other way around.
Browse the full collection at studiosakaia.com/artwork, or enquire with a photo of your wall and we will help you find the right piece and size. Design partners working across full projects can find details of how we support trade work at studiosakaia.com/trade.