Two wallpaper collections designed by Carlo Dal Bianco for Londonart.

The first is inspired by the world's artistic heritage. Two surface-treated decors with a striped pattern reminiscent of cannetté ribbons or Italian woodwork and furniture from the 1940s. “Brussels” reinterprets a bouquet of flowers from a Flemish painting; “Canova” takes a detail from the famous sculpture Hector by the Neoclassical sculptor.

The second is a tribute to the relationship between Venice and the Orient: two very different worlds that have intertwined culturally and economically for centuries. Five different designs dialogue with each other through the background grid, the trait d'union of the entire collection. This geometric pattern contrasts with the designs in the foreground, which gradually take up the Venetian tradition of embossed brass plates in “Venice”, or Burano lace in the “Bloom” decoration; or the “Army” decoration showing a group of warriors from Xi'an; “Flowerfall” representing a cascade of flowers reminiscent of the lightness of Chinese silks and finally the “China” decoration that unites the two cultures in the juxtaposition of a Chinese fabric cut out according to the shapes of Venetian and Chinese vases.

Photo:
Courtesy LondonArt

Collaborators:
Francesco Cecchini designer