Fiordalisi Smaltati

I call this design Fiordalisi Smaltati wallpaper, and it is to the tradition of maiolica that I look in composing it: the Italian art of enamel painted on terracotta, translated here into a small, rigorous plant motif, without shadow or gradation, made of full areas of colour and clean outlines like brushstrokes on ceramic.

Each cornflower head is seen face on, a small ochre-gold disc at the centre ringed by eight fringed rays, carried on thin, moving stems, barely accompanied by pairs of slender leaves. The flowers multiply densely, turned in every direction, with no visible grid, in an interlace of cobalt blue and cornflower blue that breathes on a warm white ground, while the sage green of the stems holds the composition together discreetly.

In the design I read the patience of the craftsman who paints by hand hundreds of small flowers, identical and never the same, and the idea, typically Italian, that domestic beauty comes from the patient repetition of a simple gesture. It is a motif that does not impose but accompanies: its fine pattern suits any room, from the house to the workplace to the fine hotel, always giving back the same luminous quiet.

At WallZad we translate this decorative inheritance into a Fiordalisi Smaltati wallpaper made to last, with high-quality printing and materials chosen so that the maiolica gesture stays alive on the wall, losing nothing of its lightness.