Savana Specchiata

The Savana Specchiata wallpaper comes from a landscape watched for a long time before being let live on the wall: the flooded savannah of the Llanos, where groups of moriche palms, with grey-brown trunks and crowns of feathered leaves, rise from a stretch of shallow water that gives back the sky and the plants in an almost perfect reflection. It belongs to the genre of wetlands and savannah, a way of looking at landscape that does not separate land from water but lets them speak in horizontal bands: a thin strip of pale sky at the top, the clumps of palms gathered in irregular groups at the centre, with a denser thicket slightly off axis, and finally their double, moved by minimal ripples, taking the lower half of the composition.

I chose a warm, subdued palette — ochre and straw in the grasses, olive green and bronze in the fronds, metallic grey in the trunks, amber and lavender in the water receding towards the horizon — because the quiet of this place needs no contrast, only even light and time to be looked at. Every fringed frond, every ring of bark, every tiny bird reduced to a silhouette tells of the patience of nature in building symmetries without seeking them.

In the Savana Specchiata wallpaper the wall becomes a threshold onto this balance suspended between sky and water, a wide breath that accompanies any room. It is here that the trade of WallZad becomes a discreet keeper: the very high definition printing holds the finest detail without betraying the breadth of the view.