Neve e Cinabro

The Neve e Cinabro wallpaper comes from an essential gesture: the upright profile of a crane, the neck curving in a single line, the small scarlet crown that lights the white of the head. I belong to the family of Fauna, and here I choose it still, in an instant of quiet that needs no movement to be alive.

The design shows the crane in profile, the feathers of the neck marked by a dense black-and-white pattern of fine strokes, and the long feathers of the wings reaching backwards, loose, until they meet — at the edge of the tile — the feathers of the next crane, as in a flight that never breaks off. The space around stays wide and silent, the emptiness needed for the line to breathe.

The colour is measured: black ink, bone white, a single touch of crimson. It is restraint that makes this figure proud, not abundance. In the Neve e Cinabro wallpaper the scattered repeat lets the wall keep its own light, while the design settles on it like an isolated thought, never insistent.

I sign every tile as a hand drawing, then entrust it to the WallZad atelier to be turned into matter for a wall — a print that respects every stroke of the pen, every margin where the lines rejoin without a break. It is an elegance that has no need to adorn itself: it is enough for it to exist, still and true, on any wall that chooses to host it.