Pierre Frey | Madame Elisabeth – Ocean

Madame Elisabeth draws inspiration from the sister of Louis XVI and evokes the distinctive chiné à la branche technique that flourished in eighteenth-century European design. This method, which involved selectively dyeing thread groups before weaving, created characteristically soft-edged florals and stripes that manufacturers eagerly reproduced through block printing to capture its elusive quality. Hand screen-printed, this wallpaper interprets that historic aesthetic, blending the rigour of geometric structure with the painterly imprecision that made the technique so captivating to period designers and collectors alike.

• Colourway: Ocean
• Composition: Paper
• Width: 68 cms
• Roll length: 4.57 m
• Vertical repeat: 31 cms
• Horizontal repeat: 69 cms