Reticolo di Cotto

I sign my Reticolo di Cotto wallpaper as one signs a pact with time: a lattice of interlocking diamonds running on without a break, each holding at its centre a small concentric circle, like the growth ring cut into a section of wood or the ripple widening from a drop of still water. It is not decoration for its own sake: it is geometry that speaks of the cycle, the repetition that reassures, the return that is both quiet and continuity.

I chose terracotta and clay as chromatic matter before choosing them as colour: warm tones of fired earth, burnt sand and deep ink, crossed by a fine gold thread that does not shout but underlines, like a golden crack in kintsugi that does not hide time but honours it. Tone on tone prevails, the contrast is measured, calibrated to accompany the low, gathered light of an evening without ever breaking its intimacy.

Every lozenge is drawn by hand before it finds its vector precision, a balance WallZad tends lozenge after lozenge so that the join is invisible and the rhythm never falters. That is how the Reticolo di Cotto wallpaper comes about, between atelier and the tailoring of the line: a geometric field read from a distance as an architectural breath, revealing close up the fine weave of someone who works with patience.