Ronda del Prato

The Ronda del Prato wallpaper comes from a gesture as simple as it is old: drawing hearts and daisies the way the ribbons of a ring dance are braided, row after row, without ever breaking the rhythm. The style of this design is a country folk one, made of full shapes and clean outlines, of colours declared without shadow: the cherry red of the hearts, the buttery yellow of the daisy centres, meadow green and sky blue alternating on a pale, almost milky cream ground.

Looking closely you find that every horizontal band mirrors the one above and below: plump hearts and five-petalled daisies follow one another closely, edge to edge, with small fine festoons and dots marking the tips of the petals and the hearts of the flowers. It is a design that breathes the happiest childhood, the one made of nursery rhymes learnt by heart and unhurried days, where everything comes back, the same and reassuring, like a repeated embrace.

For a child’s room I wanted this motif to stay light, able to fill a wall without ever weighing it down: a cheerful backdrop for children to rest their eyes on before falling asleep, or on waking, always finding the same familiar gladness. At WallZad every Ronda del Prato wallpaper is printed with the Italian craftsmanship we have always kept, because a design made for play deserves the same precision as the most precious rooms in the house.