Paradise Lost, Lorena d’Ilio narrates the delicacy and fragility of flowers in the new wallpaper collection for SpaghettiWall

Traces of nature in interior design. The miracle of plant complexity becomes an intimate visual scenario in the Paradise Lost collection, curated by Lorena d’Ilio for SpaghettiWall. “The creative path and research linked to these wallpapers emerge from introspection, from a sense of spiritual relationship with flowers, whose scent, colours and skin I have always loved. The flowers undergo interpretative passages, from photographic to graphic, to redesign, to become a refined decoration, but one that is immediately readable,” says the designer and founder of the Milanese Studio Mamo, who defines herself as a “digital painter”, as well as conducting research on trends, including colour, for the fashion and furnishing industry.

The five subjects – “XXL Glow”, “Chrysalis in Motion”, “Dancing Together”, “Flower Clouds” and “Ephemeral Archive” – are thus the result of an artistic process developed in different phases. The first one sees the creation of photographic images, where an accent zoom on the morphology of the flora produces exciting and detailed macros. “Like a microscope, I observe the lymph of the flowers and imagine that I am reading their DNA,” comments Lorena D’Ilio, who then proceeds by transferring the shots into the digital scenario, stylising them because “my great fear is that one day all this beauty may disappear and from this suggestion I have created correlations of species, extinct and decomposed flowers that, through digitalisation mutate and take on other forms; they multiply, they modify themselves in an endless process. Here, the delicate contour lines of the petals emerge as light marks, redrawn, which, in the last step, are made personal thanks to the introduction of colour, now full, deep and vibrant, now dotted, following only the outlines. The patterns, hand-painted, are sophisticated and cultured, as they release the metaphor of a natural world subjected to “several phases of observation, a captured, delicate and fragile moment of a vulnerability put on display”. Here, the delicate contour lines of the petals emerge as light marks, redrawn, which, in the last step, are made personal thanks to the introduction of colour, now full, deep and vibrant, now dotted, following only the outlines. The patterns, hand-painted, are sophisticated and cultured, as they release the metaphor of a natural world subjected to “several phases of observation, a captured, delicate and fragile moment of a vulnerability put on display”. They cover interior surfaces and can be used to create entire walls or panels to be used as decorative canvases, even overlapping each other.

Finally, the very high resolution printing accentuates the intensity of the textures designed by Lorena D’Ilio for SpaghettiWall, customisable in a selection of colour variants and available on seven media with different properties, for application in different types of spaces, even in direct contact with water.