Samal wallpaper collection Arte

Samal wallpaper by Arte: walls covered with real shells

Samal wallpaper consists of real shells, laid on the wall in geometric mosaic patterns. Each piece has its own mottled lustre. Because mother-of-pearl changes colour with the light, the same wall looks different in daylight than under a lamp. Thin joints define the shapes: arcs, diamonds or interlocking figures. Some patterns keep to one shade, others contrast three colours for a spatial effect. So within this Arte wallpaper you can choose a shell wall that brings calm or seeks contrast.

Patterns in the Samal wallpaper collection

Camber wallpaper lays hand-sized semi-circles in overlapping rows, like scales, edged with thin dark lines. It keeps to one champagne-coloured shade, so the lustre of the mother-of-pearl does the talking. Helix wallpaper works with interlocking Y-shapes in bright yellow gold, light gold and anthracite. Your eye picks out cubes in it that seem to emerge from the wall. Cubic wallpaper builds that spatial play with diamonds: three shapes together form a tumbling block, in pearl white, lime green and dark blue-grey. Prisma wallpaper completes the series with its own geometric shell pattern, in which the mother-of-pearl shifts colour with the light just as in the other patterns.

Combining Samal by Arte with leather, ceramics and soft fabrics

With Camber, place a terracotta vase and a cognac-coloured leather bench. Those warm shades bring out the gold in the arcs. Helix is counterbalanced by a white teddy-fabric sofa with a black frame. For Cubic, two white bucket chairs and a bowl of lemons and limes that echo the green of the wall are enough. If you choose Samal wallpaper, keep the furniture simple in form. The wall does the work.