Paradis Perdu

In Paradis Perdu, Magnus Gjoen translates a layered visual narrative into wallpaper, born from the rediscovery of a rare book — the illustrated French translation of Paradise Lost, published in 1863 and enriched with 21 finely engraved plates.
From one of these engravings emerges the digital fresco that defines the pattern: an allegorical scene, both revealed and concealed by a floral camouflage, where every detail alternates between visibility and dissolution.

The design is a forest of fullness and void, where nineteenth-century engraving and surreal vegetation merge in a unique visual rhythm.
The etched line, dots, and hatching coexist with digital floral insertions and fragments borrowed from classical painting — petals, hands, drapery, shadows.

Paradis Perdu is a work to be explored slowly, a conceptual pattern that inhabits the wall as a narrative space, balancing iconographic reflection with aesthetic tension.

The Paradis Perdu Senape Edition stands out for its warm golden-ochre background, saturated yet subtle, reminiscent of ancient pigments, precious textiles, and Venetian plastered walls.
Upon this precious base rest the multicolored subjects, almost camouflaged — floral overlays in Pompeian red, forest green, burnt ochre, and Persian blue.

Wallpaper by Magnus Gjoen for MaVoix.
Paradis Perdu Senape Edition: a fresco on a golden-ochre background, combining classical engravings and multicolored floral camouflage.

Floral fresco and baroque engraving intertwine on a golden mustard background.
Magnus Gjoen signs for MaVoix a wallpaper that speaks of beauty, memory, and vision.