Wallpaper Wild 976-2

Wild 976-2 repeats the jungle drawing in grey blue. The cool tone goes with white and pale wood and gives the room a composed rather than playful feel.

Wild is a finely drawn jungle landscape: palms, ferns and large leaves rendered in thin line work, with a giraffe, an elephant, a leopard, a cockatoo and an ostrich emerging between them. The line is delicate and the motif large, which makes the wall graphic and airy at the same time.

Mika is the children's collection from ICH Wallcoverings, where watercolour animals and landscapes are matched with quiet stripes, textures and plain companions so that the walls of one room can be put together as a set. The paper is non woven and of the Easy Up type: the paste goes onto the wall rather than onto the paper, and a dry length can still be slid into place. The roll measures 53 cm × 10.05 m with a 53 cm repeat and a straight match, so the pattern joins at the same height on every length.

The surface is washable, so fingerprints and marks come off with a damp cloth. Lightfastness is very good, which means a sunny wall will not fade quickly. When the room is redone, the old covering comes away dry in one piece and the wall underneath needs no fresh filling.