Ophelia's Veil carpet blue

The Ophelia's Veil (Blue) wallpaper pattern from the Britannia Unchained collection is a visual reverie, a composition inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic that dominated the British artistic imagination of the late Victorian era. Like a whisper from a forgotten world, this design evokes symbols of melancholy and aristocratic refinement, bearing the imprint of the romantic sensibility of the 19th-century English drawing room.

The structure of the wallpaper consists of a fluid graphic network of sinuous branches, finely contoured flowers and elongated leaves, which flow in a linear rhythm, like water threads flowing across the surface of a mirror. There is no rigid symmetry, but a directed, controlled organicity that alludes to nature as it was perceived by the artistic elite of the time: idealised, decorative and charged with subtle meanings. The design appears painted rather than printed, with soft lines and transparent hues, like a watercolour composition.

The colour palette is cool and dreamy: blue dominates the surface in inky or faded tones, complemented by pearly greys, pale mint greens and hints of oxidised silver. This selection of colours creates an aquatic and lyrical atmosphere, evoking the filtered light of a cloudy day in the Thames riverside gardens or the north-facing rooms of an aristocratic residence.