Capriole di Peonia

My Capriole di Peonia wallpaper opens the door of a child's room onto a small, quiet and joyful world, where every wall tells of a garden inhabited by tumbling cubs.

The design belongs to the woodland woodcut style, heir to the old wood-block prints: flat shapes, clean outlines and simple overlapping silhouettes give life to a stylised flowering wood. Small round cubs, caught in play and somersaults, chase one another among large peony corollas and broad leaves, in a motif that repeats without a break, where every flower and every paw touches the edge of the wall to carry on, unseen, on the next one.

In the warm tones of terracotta, powder pink and cream, and in the deep indigo outlines, I wanted to hold the innocent energy of play and the slow grace of flowering: two different tempos of life, running and opening, which here live together unhurried. It is an image that speaks to children in the simple language of shapes, and to adults in the old memory of woodcut, that manual patience which comes before every printed image.

At WallZad I followed the same care, texture by texture, so that the Capriole di Peonia wallpaper keeps, enlarged across a whole wall, the same lightness and precision as the small original motif: a soft, luminous refuge in which to grow up watching flowers and cubs dance together.