This wallpaper border, which I designed for CommonRoom, references an ancient Greek Ivy Meander Border. It is hand-painted using wine-coloured ink. The colour is influenced by ivy’s association with Dionysus, the Greek God of revelry. The plant also represents fidelity – it doesn’t easily let go of something it has attached itself to – just like wallpaper. Ivy Chaplet can act as a crown for any room.

2021