True Love isn't Hearts and Flowers

With True Love isn’t Hearts and Flowers, Magnus Gjoen creates a pattern that is, above all, a statement: love is not a cliché. It is beauty and wound, strength and fragility, resistance and grace.

The wallpaper stages a constant visual tension — vertical barbed wires, sharp and metallic, intertwine with a thin, glossy silk ribbon that follows them without taming them. It is a parallel path between pain and tenderness, cruelty and protection.

Gjoen uses modular repetition to construct a grammar of contrast, where rigidity becomes rhythm and delicacy turns into tension.
The surface becomes a visual declaration, where the pattern itself acts as symbol, gesture, and open question.

In this version, the background is a matte olive green, deep and textured, with military and historical echoes.
Against it, the sky-blue elements stand out with crystalline luminosity: the silk ribbon appears even more delicate, the barbed wire even more defined.
The combination of olive green and light blue reinforces the pattern’s message: not everything beautiful is fragile, and not everything hard is cruel.

The design unfolds as a vertically repeated module, perfect for creating walls with rhythmic structure and strong conceptual and decorative impact.

Wallpaper True Love isn’t Hearts and Flowers by Magnus Gjoen x MaVoix, featuring barbed wire and sky-blue ribbon on an olive-green background — a symbolic and powerful pattern.

Barbed wire and silk ribbon intertwine on an olive-green base — a symbolic design by Magnus Gjoen for MaVoix, where beauty and strength coexist.