The New Essential Wallpaper Collection 2023

Essential, like its name.
Textured, three-dimensional, highly elegant.
To be touched by the eyes and listened to by the hands.

Essential Wallpaper Collection is a universe of abstractions and vinyl geometries that
enhance the sensorial power of engravings, inlays and embossing. 3D textures, bas-relief
progressions and textures inspired by nature or skillful Japanese traditions evolve into
sculpted vertical surfaces that open up unexplored horizons for interior decoration.
The new #essentialwallpaper2023 Collection consists of four new patterns - each
available in three color variants - and bears the signature of Studiopepe for their fourth
collection and Zanellato/Bortotto, a new entry in the portfolio of Wall&decò designers.
The salt pans of Cervia, ancient origami, bright-eyed owls: art and nature outline new
inspirations. Voids and solids, furrows and incisions, primordial geometries restore the
expressive power of a landscape of the heart, of a mysterious animal, of an ancient
tradition.
More specifically, Studiopepe's patterns are freely inspired by traditional Japanese paper
folding techniques. In FUKURO, 'owl' in Japanese, the silhouettes are reminiscent of these
stylized night animals emerging from the darkness of the forest with their silver reflections
and bright eyes. In HOSHI, 'straw' in Japanese, the effect is inspired by straw in traditional
Japanese dwellings. A weave of canes creates a geometric decorative pattern.
The graphics designed by Zanellato/Bortotto convey their stylistic signature – design
research focused on the salt pans in Romagna region as a homage to the land of
Wall&decò. Thus, the unique shape of the basins has been taken up in SALINA where the
surface texture echoes the salt grains thus creating a continuous graphic pattern of depths
and reliefs. LIMO brings an abstract representation of water and earth fragments to the
stage, alternating solids and voids and generating a strong three-dimensionality that
unfolds in a fragmented manner to compose a light and elegant pattern.