Ventagli di Taro

This is the Ventagli di Taro wallpaper, a design belonging to the great botanical family of Flora, the plant register that has always fed WallZad’s imagination. The subject here is Colocasia esculenta: large heart-shaped leaves crossed by veins radiating from the petiole to the wavy margin, held on terracotta-coloured stems rising straight from an ivory ground. The leaves appear in three different sizes, scattered with measure across a wide breath of open space, so that every wall keeps air and silence.

I like to think of this motif as a hanging garden, where bottle green and sage green alternate without haste, and the terracotta lights the drawing with an earthy warmth. There is no shadow, no perspective: only the crisp flat mark of the leaf, drawn as one observes a plant close to, with the sincerity of a botanical illustration. It is the quiet of a large leaf opening, the natural gesture that goes on growing even outside our gaze.

In homes, in studios, in hotel lobbies, the Ventagli di Taro wallpaper always finds the large free wall that brings out its breadth, without ever crowding the space. It is a drawing that does not furnish but inhabits: every leaf becomes a resting point for the eye, a discreet call to the nature that restores without shouting. At WallZad every vein is traced and printed with the same tailored care we give to every design, because the silent beauty of Flora always deserves a support worthy of the gesture that imagined it.