Stella d’Avorio

It is born like this, between one breath and the next, the Stella d’Avorio wallpaper: a design belonging to the Flora family, the great botanical repertoire that has always fed our decorative research. Here Magnolia grandiflora opens in wide flowers, six or nine thick pointed tepals arranged in a star on several levels, held above oval leaves, stiff and glossy, that let their central veins show. Each flower appears alone, with its pair of leaves, in a sparse and generous weave where the ground is left free to breathe: not dense decoration, but measured presence.

I wanted the colour to tell the same quiet: ivory and cream for the tepals, with a pink shading at the base that recalls the exact moment of flowering, deep bottle green for the leaves, lighter on the reverse. A few fine veins, small stamens at the centre: the line is clean and full, without shading, faithful to a graphic synthesis that gives up none of the flower's natural grace.

There is, in this isolated and repeated magnolia, the very idea of waiting: a flower that does not hurry, that occupies space with dignity and leaves around itself the silence the wall needs in order to go on living. It is a botany that does not crowd, that chooses measure as a form of respect for the room that receives it, from the home to the most carefully considered hospitality space.

WallZad translates this quiet into matter: every tepal, every vein of this Stella d’Avorio wallpaper comes from fine Italian printing, made to stay faithful to the original drawing, day after day, on every wall that chooses to take it in.