Ingranaggio di Deruta

And so the Ingranaggio di Deruta wallpaper comes into being, from the ancient gesture of maiolica, which still knows how to draw time in circles. Each medallion is a small wheel: concentric rings crossed by straight spokes, the rim toothed like a gear crown, drawn with a clean line and flat colour, with no shadows to distract the eye. The motifs do not crowd the wall: one to a field, wide and solitary, they let the warm ivory of the ground breathe, while cobalt, ochre and iron red alternate with the measure of someone who knows the craft of the kiln.

It is a design that speaks of orbits and of stillness, of wheels that do not run but guard the centre. Seen from a distance it is a set of fixed points in space; coming closer means finding the small triangular teeth, the fine ring lines, the almost mechanical rigour of a geometry that Italian ceramics has made familiar for centuries. In any room, from the home to the office to a hotel lobby, the Ingranaggio di Deruta wallpaper leaves the field open to natural light and to a wall that wants to remain the protagonist, with no furniture competing for the eye.

In my work I always look for this balance: the memory of a craft — maiolica, its glazes, its patient repetition — translated into a rigorous vector drawing, ready for the contemporary wall. WallZad prints these circles with the same care with which the glaze was once painted onto the biscuit: because an ancient motif, if treated with precision, always stays current