Notte di Giada

I call this wallpaper Notte di Giada wallpaper because it tells of a garden that lives in the dark, without ever being extinguished by it. It belongs to dark botanical style, which here takes shape in immense banana leaves, their blades arching and overlapping, interlaced with clusters of orchids with open petals and curled lips. Everything is suspended beneath a canopy of shadow that darkens the upper reaches of the composition, while below the brighter shapes advance towards the viewer.

The palette is jade on black: two or three graded emerald greens emerge from an almost absolute ground, and only the pale celadon of the orchids' throats lights the highlights. There is no empty space: leaves and flowers follow one another in dense tiers, from near-black silhouettes at the back to brighter shapes in the foreground, in a design that is dense, continuous, without interruption.

I like to think that shadow, here, is not absence but protection: what remains hidden keeps its own strength, like the fine veining and serrated edges that reveal themselves only on close inspection. It is a nature that does not offer itself at once, but lets itself be discovered — a lesson in restraint, in patience, which in our work we translate into every line, every hand-calibrated shade before printing. Hanging Notte di Giada wallpaper on a single free wall, in a home, a studio or a hotel lobby, means bringing this waiting into everyday space, letting the natural light of the place reveal, hour after hour, its different nuances.