Buon Appetito Print | Green Stripe Italian Kitchen Wall Art

A buon appetito print for the wall above the table. The phrase is broken across three lines in tall orange capitals, held inside a wavy orange border, on broad stripes of olive green and cream.

About the artwork

Two colours and no drawing. The letters are narrow and slightly irregular, drawn rather than set, and the wavy border is the only curve on a sheet otherwise made of straight vertical stripes. Olive green is unusual for a poster ground: it reads warm rather than fresh, closer to a painted shutter than to a leaf. Portrait.

Why you'll love it

• The Italian version of a table welcome. Short enough to read in a glance from a seat at the far end.
• Olive green goes with wood. It sits comfortably against oak, walnut and terracotta without matching any of them exactly.
• Built as a set. Every design in the food and drink series shares the same cream ground and paper, so any combination lines up.
• A gift for someone who cooks for people. A wish rather than an instruction.
• Made to order. Printed after you buy, colour-managed, never warehoused.

Sizes and materials

• Paper — archival matte, rolled and unframed. Thirteen sizes in all: 8" x 12" through 30" x 40", plus A4–A1.
• Matte canvas — stretched on a wooden bar, no glare, ready to hang. 12" x 16" to 30" x 40".
• Framed canvas — solid wood floating frame in white, black, espresso or natural. 12" x 16" to 30" x 40".
• Pigment-based archival inks, rated to resist fading for decades indoors.

Styling it at home

It belongs above a dining table or a long sideboard, hung high enough that the stripes read as a panel of colour from across the room. Olive is a quiet ground, so this is one of the few typographic prints in the series that will not fight a patterned rug or a busy shelf. It reads as a matched pair with the blue-striped Dolce Far Niente print — same border, same letterforms, opposite temperature.

Shipping and care

Unframed prints ship rolled in a protective tube. Framed canvas arrives ready to hang. Keep prints out of direct sunlight to protect the colour, and dust canvas with a dry, soft cloth.

Questions people ask

What size should I get? Between cabinets or above a counter, 12" x 18" or 16" x 24". Above a dining table or sideboard, go 24" x 36" or larger so the print holds the wall.

Does it come framed? Paper prints ship unframed and fit standard frames. Choose a framed canvas if you would rather skip the framing shop.

Can I hang more than one together? Yes. The food and drink prints share one palette and one paper, so two or three hang as a matched set.