Terrazze di Cristallo

I am born as water that settles and rises again, step after step: I am the Terrazze di Cristallo wallpaper, and I bring into the hotel lobby the memory of a landscape that knows no haste. My turquoise pools follow one another like liquid rooms, held by rims of pale travertine on which time has cut fine striations, glossy with spray and moss.

Around me, the autumn wood is reflected in copper, amber and rust, while a deep green holds it all together, like a breath after colour. I do not repeat a motif: I am a single continuous scene, in focus from the first rush of water in the foreground to the far veil of the falls, because true elegance, the kind that welcomes a guest without ever tiring them, lies precisely in coherence that does not break.

In the lobby where I live, the light of the entrance meets my surface and lights it with cool reflections: whoever comes in slows down, as before a real landscape, not a decoration. It is here that I choose to show myself at large scale, legible from a distance in its architecture of terraces, yet able to offer, to whoever comes close, the fine texture of the porous rock and of the leaves floating motionless on the water.

In this balance of breadth and detail I recognise WallZad's hand: every photograph has been treated with the care of an Italian atelier, so that the Terrazze di Cristallo wallpaper is not only an image but matter made to last, to welcome, to tell without ever raising its voice.