Pergolato delle Fusa

The Pergolato delle Fusa wallpaper comes about as a small suspended stage set: kittens playing, chasing curled ribbons and garlands of roses, beneath a sequence of trellis arches that repeats, regular and light, along the whole wall. It is rococo, in its most tender and childlike form, that of ribbon gardens and flowering pergolas, that sets the rhythm: clean lines, flat colours, a crisp mark that tells without ever weighing things down.

I look at the pads of the paws, the small whiskers drawn with a single stroke, the stitched hem of the ribbons weaving between one arch and the next, and I find there the same minute care that the decorative tradition gave to secret gardens: small ordered worlds, made to be discovered close to. The palette is that of old-fashioned sweets — powder pink, mint green, butter yellow and dusty blue — laid on a cream ground that lets each figure breathe.

Every arch continues beyond its own edge, so that the kittens and the garlands carry on without a break from one wall to the next: a garden with neither beginning nor end, made to accompany growing up without ever becoming tiring. This, for us, is the craft: turning a joyful drawing into a technically flawless surface, where every join disappears and only the scene remains. To hang the Pergolato delle Fusa wallpaper in a child's room is to give children a light, bright space, able to tell a story every time the eye rests on it.