Fontana

An ancient object — a pitcher with a Medicean profile, severe and elongated — is transformed here into an ironic, sophisticated, and ambiguous visual subject. Fontana is a wallpaper named after a contained, motionless form of water: a shape that recurs, returns, and repeats within a modular and serial logic, until it becomes rhythm.

The pattern originates from a black engraved drawing, inspired by 18th-century graphic techniques, yet freely reinterpreted through the MaVoix visual code. The pitcher is never the same — every detail shifts and mutates. In some, the handle becomes a zebra’s tail; in others, the body seems to turn in on itself. It is a collection of anomalies, contained within a single typology, a visual obsession.

Repetition, rather than reassuring, disorients and amuses. The surface becomes a graphic theatre, retelling the same story in endlessly different ways. Fontana is the perfect wallpaper for those who love cultured yet playful surfaces, seeking conceptual elegance with a touch of irony.

In this version, the black-ink pitcher rests on a background of vertical stripes in warm ochre yellow, desaturated blue, and dusty peach red. The soft yet vibrant chromatic base amplifies the graphic contrast of the black line, creating a rhythmic, architectural, and ironically ordered effect.
The stripes act as theatrical wings, coloring the scene without dominating it, allowing the form—with all its ambiguities and variations—to capture the gaze.