Mandala di Felci

In the Mandala di Felci wallpaper I wanted to hold the instant in which nature organises itself according to a perfect order: the moment when fern fronds, still coiled on themselves, arrange into a rosette that opens from the centre towards the edges, like a breath held and then let go.

Every crosier is drawn with a fine, sure ink outline, filled with flat grounds of moss, fern and sage on a pale chalk field: no shadow, no superfluous volume, only the botanical precision of someone who watched an English woodland floor for a long time before turning it into line. At the centre, the tightest spirals gather into an almost black green, a silent gravity from which the whole motif seems to be born; towards the outside the younger shoots grow thinner, light, almost on the tip of the pen.

It is a design made to be read twice: from a distance, as a single great plant rose window able to give breath and order to a wide space; close up, as a very dense interlace of veins and hatching that rewards a patient eye. In a hospitality space, where time slows and the eye looks for quiet, this natural geometry gives back the feeling of an English garden caught at its most composed.

To sign a Mandala di Felci wallpaper for WallZad means entrusting to Italian hands the faithful translation of this plant architecture: every line checked, every green calibrated, so that the wall becomes a silent threshold between outside and inside.