Delano is named for the Miami Beach hotel, and the connection is architectural rather than sentimental. What it takes from that period is the fondness for the laid tile: the interlocking floor pattern, the lobby surface designed to be walked over and admired at the same time. The motif here is exactly that, a small repeating figure that locks into its neighbours on all four sides.
Drawn flat and in few tones, it depends entirely on the interval. The repeat is 24.4 cm, which is short, and the match is straight, so the grid holds true across the drops and the wall reads as a continuous surface rather than as a series of hung lengths. Several colourways include a metallic, which gives the tile edges a slight lift under lamplight while the ground behind them stays matt.
Small, disciplined geometry of this kind is useful in rooms that are already busy with architecture: a hall with a stone floor, a bathroom with panelled joinery, a cloakroom that can be papered floor to ceiling. It also does well as a foil to something larger. A wall of Delano behind an upholstered bed will hold its own without competing for attention. The metallic colourways repay a room lit by lamps rather than by daylight.
