Iconic Vietnam Wall Art

Iconic Vietnam wall art shows the places people picture first: a yellow Saigon market tower above a wet street, the rust-orange girders of Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi, a tiled covered bridge in Hoi An and streets hung with red lanterns. Buyers choose between a hand-painted oil painting and an archival canvas print of the same image.

Saigon towers, lawns and wet squares

One painting gives a yellow market gateway and its clock tower to a wide blue street, with red signboards along the facades and a scooter rider passing below. Another turns to a pale palace flying a red flag, a round green lawn in front and orange tree crowns pressing in from both sides. More of these views hang in the Saigon collection, and the palace scenes sit comfortably beside the pieces in French Colonial.

Hanoi iron and narrow streets

Long Bien Bridge is painted close up in one canvas: a rust-brown steel span with lattice towers, set behind green branches and broad banana leaves. Another canvas lays a railway track along a Hanoi street where shopfronts, red flags and green trees stand on either side, a blue and red train sits far down the line and sun reaches the stones between the rails.

Hoi An water and lantern light

In Hoi An, pink end walls and a tiled roof mark the Japanese Covered Bridge, which stands on stone piers while its reflection spreads across grey-green water under a pale overcast sky. In a night view, a crowd walks a street strung with red, orange and green lanterns while golden shopfronts glow back from wet cobbles.

Choosing a piece for the wall

The pale sky and rust browns of the steel bridge canvas sit well on a pale wall. The yellow tower and blue street of the Saigon market view bring stronger colour to a sofa wall, and the lantern street, with its deep blue sky and golden shopfronts, suits a wall where you want a darker, glowing picture.