Hyde Park carpet

The Hyde Park wallpaper pattern from the Britannia Unchained collection is a reverence for urbanised, controlled, carefully composed nature - that quintessentially British landscape form that combines the freedom of greenery with the order of architecture and the deeply civilised gesture of the stroll. Inspired by London's famous park of the same name, the design of this wallpaper captures not only the visual beauty of a green space, but also the social, ritualistic and aristocratic spirit that has defined it for centuries.

The graphic composition is structured in vertical registers, suggesting the tree lines, the tree-lined alleyways and the controlled perspectives of a landscape conceived as a work of architecture rather than a natural occurrence. The leaves are stylised in clear, slightly repetitive shapes with a precision reminiscent of 19th-century botanical engravings. The branches arch slowly, and the distribution of plant motifs creates an effect of calm depth, like a park seen in twilight.

The colour palette proposes sophisticated shades inspired by nature but filtered through aesthetics: sage green, warm grey, earthy brown and discreet accents of creamy yellow. This colour palette is not decorative in the classic sense, but evocative - each colour seems drawn from an object from an English afternoon: an old wooden bench, a summer hat, the bark of a plane tree or the light filtered through the dense foliage of ancient trees.

The Hyde Park wallpaper pattern is more than a vegetal interpretation: it is a metaphor for public space and private life, for the boundary between freedom and convention, nature and rule. In the British tradition, royal parks were not just green spaces - they were theatres of civility, backdrops for refined conversation and places of reflection for a class that learned its dignity from restrained gestures.