Orbite di Cera

The Orbite di Cera wallpaper tells of space as a child imagines it with a box of wax crayons just opened: a boxy satellite, two rectangular solar panels and a short antenna, sitting still at the centre of a net of scribbled orbits, freehand circles that interlace and widen towards the edges, never perfect, never the same.

It is the Crayon Cosmos style that guides every line: the thick stroke of the wax crayon, the waxy grain that skips on the tooth of the paper, the pressure marks where the tip dug into the sheet. The navy blue of the orbits weaves with the mustard yellow and brick red of the satellite body, while small five-pointed stars and chalky white commas dot the cream ground, each closed within its own sure outline, never blending with the colour beside it. Close to, the antenna turns out to be hatched in small crossed strokes, the solar panels scored by a fine grid: details that reward the near gaze of a child sitting on the floor.

I like to think of this design as an invitation to drift lightly, to let thought turn in circles like the satellite's disordered orbits, in no hurry to find a straight way. It is a cosmos within reach, naive and sincere, made to stay still on a wall while the eyes of someone growing up keep moving. At WallZad every Orbite di Cera wallpaper comes from this fidelity to the original mark: the print respects the crayon stroke and its deliberate imperfection, because a child's room deserves the same authenticity as a drawing made with one's own hands.