Italian-based design workshop LATOxLATO makes its debut in wallpaper design this year, collaborating with Inkiostro Bianco, an Italian brand specializing in decorative coverings that blend art, architecture, and design. The result is a series of evocative metaphysical wallpapers where urban visions envelop spaces in an ethereal, dreamlike, and yet dynamic dimension.
The designs are an original interpretation and contribution to Inkiostro Bianco’s Flow line, characterized by a fluidity and rhythm of shapes and colors that break boundaries and rigidity.
“We are thrilled about this collaboration with a company like Inkiostro Bianco, an authentic laboratory of ideas that has given us full confidence and great creative freedom,” share Virginia Valentini and Francesco Breganze de Capnist, founders of LATOxLATO. “It is as if we have been able to paint our vision on a blank canvas. On whatever scale we work, from the building to the furniture complement and now the wallpaper, we love to combine the architectural sign with a metaphysical atmosphere.”
The common thread running through the four designs created by the studio within the Flow line is the reflection on the relationship between interior and exterior in architecture. The graphics of Archscape and Metropolis (pictured above) evoke the city from the perspective of those who prefer to admire it from a distance, within the comfort of their own home. Volumes, stairs, windows, lights, and shadows projected onto the walls of buildings. A hectic yet almost mystical and dreamy metropolis.
Conversely, Bossage (pictured above) and Coffer Mania invite closer inspection. It is like strolling through urban streets and, drawn to the light emanating from a room, fantasizing about the environment and the people who inhabit it, allowing the imagination to wander in an intangible and floating dimension.
As with every LATOxLATO project, the research on color is essential, with colors designed for cross-use of the wallpapers in both domestic and contract spaces. Refined cool and warm tones create chiaroscuro effects. Each design is available in various color variants, making it easy to fit into any type of environment and harmonize with different interior styles.
“In our work, we always aim to evoke emotions,” says Lorenzo Bragato, Commercial Director and co-owner of Inkiostro Bianco. “Flow was created to provide backgrounds that allow each individual to express their own way of being, and the collaboration with LATOxLATO has enriched the line with exciting and sophisticated beauty.”
Photography courtesy of Inkiostro Bianco.
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