Gallery-wall planner

Plan the wall

Tell us how wide the wall is and how you want to hang. You get the print sizes, the frames, the gaps and the nail heights, drawn to scale with real photographs from the catalogue.

Start with the width
A single framed picture leaning on the skirting board of a tall, empty white wall above a warm wooden floor
cm

Measure between corners, door frames or the ends of the furniture below. 120 to 480 cm.

Hang
Number of prints a row takes 2 to 5
Frames

The preview hangs six portrait prints from the catalogue: Crossing, Two Windows, Lighthouse, White, Curve Study I, Ferry, 7:40 and Four O’Clock. Prices are worked out as editions; posters cost less.

Print size
50 × 70 cm, three in a row
Gap between frames
8 cm
Width of the hang
217 cm, leaving 52 cm each side
Nails at
183 cm from the floor

CHF 1,560

3 editions at 50 × 70 cm in black ash, delivery CHF 38

This hang fits comfortably.

We write back within a day with the edition numbers and an invoice. Swap any photograph for another from the catalogue at the same price.

How a gallery hangs, in measurements

  1. 145 cm

    Centres at eye height

    The middle of the picture, or of the whole group, sits 145 cm from the floor. It is the height museums use, and it works over furniture too: just keep 20–25 cm clear above a sofa back.

  2. 6–10 cm

    Gaps that read as one group

    Small frames want 6 cm between them, large ones up to 10. Any wider and the pictures stop talking to each other; any tighter and the frames merge into a strip.

  3. ⅔

    Two thirds of what is below

    A hang over a sofa, bed or sideboard looks settled at about two thirds of its width. On a bare wall, leave at least a frame's width of air at each end.

Planned walls

Hangs we have laid out for customers

Over a sofa
Narrow hallway
Stairwell

A 230 cm sofa in a flat in Rorschach. One large edition in the middle, two small ones either side, hung salon-style.

  • CentreWinter Tree, Toggenburg · 110 × 80 cm · black ash
  • FlanksCrossing, Snow Script, Two Windows, Curve Study I · 30 × 40 cm
  • Gaps8 cm · overall 205 cm · nails at 172 and 199 cm
  • TotalCHF 2,080 framed
A long, narrow white gallery corridor with track lights and a pale concrete floor, glowing at the far end

Hanging service

We can hang it
for you.

Matteo Ferrandi hangs every show in the gallery. Within 40 km of St. Gallen he brings the frames, a laser level and the right fixings for plaster, concrete or timber, and leaves the room as he found it.

  • One to three framesCHF 140
  • A full wall, up to eightCHF 260
  • Stairwells and high ceilingsfrom CHF 320
Book a hanging

Planner questions

Send the width and a phone photo of the wall with your reservation. Matteo checks every hang by eye before anything is framed.

Can I mix photographers on one wall?

Yes. The catalogue was chosen to sit together: every photograph is light, quiet and mostly white. The planner uses portrait-format prints; tell us which titles you want and we redraw it.

My wall has a radiator or a switch in the way.

Measure the clear width above it and enter that. Send a phone photo with the reservation and we check the hang against it before anything is framed.

What does “clips” mean?

Unframed prints hung from two small brass clips on a hidden rail. It is cheaper and looks good with posters; for editions we recommend a frame, because glass keeps the paper flat and clean.