Badminton mat

The Badminton wallpaper pattern from the Britannia Unchained collection is named after a legendary stately home in rural England, but it evokes more than a location - it suggests an atmosphere, a way of life, an aesthetic code handed down through generations. This design is inspired by the culture of the great English country estates, where architectural elegance blended with the discipline of the landscape and the social tradition of refined entertaining: hunting, sport, geometric gardens, conversation under ancient trees.

The graphic composition of the wallpaper is clearly defined, with a rigorous, almost heraldic, ornamental architecture. The central motifs are inspired by stylised vegetal forms - oak leaves, spikes, symmetrical branches - all drawn with a geometric clarity reminiscent of the embroidery on hunting jackets or the engraved borders on the men's furniture of noble offices. The rhythmic repetition of these shapes creates a sense of structure and balance, typical of interiors where decoration was not a whim but a reflection of rank.

The colour palette brings earthy and masculine tones to the fore, but not dark: waxed wood browns, grey-greens, dark mustard tones, English reds and rare accents of warm cream. These shades evoke high-panelled bookcases, autumnal drawing rooms, tweed fabrics and oriental rugs where time seems to slow down. It is a colour scheme of permanence, discretion and understated, undemonstrative luxury.