Nina Campbell | Alyssa

Alyssa is a tulip damask, the traditional scrolling framework drawn with tulips at its heart, so a formal European pattern carries a flower with its own long decorative history. The name derives from a Native American word meaning beautiful water, and there is a fluidity in the scrollwork that suits it.

It is made in the United Kingdom. Damasks are the great steadying patterns of decoration, and this one works wherever a room wants settled, symmetrical order, dining rooms, halls, bedrooms, studies, run wall to wall or as a panel behind a bed. It sits comfortably with plains and stripes, and gives older furniture a sympathetic ground.