Tokyo Blue wallpaper collection Moooi

Tokyo Blue wallpaper by Moooi: Japanese motifs on a dark background

The Tokyo Blue wallpaper by Moooi takes its imagery from Japan and places it on a dark background. Flowers, monkeys, waves and shoji screens recur, but each pattern interprets them in its own way. One design is a dense, colourful scene, the next a strict rhythm of arches in two shades, a third lets only embossed relief speak in blue-grey. Denim returns in several patterns, which fits the blue name. So you're not choosing between styles, you're choosing how much colour and movement you want on the wall.

Patterns in the Tokyo Blue wallpaper collection

The busiest is Rendezvous Tokyo Blue wallpaper. Roses, peonies and chrysanthemums grow on a black background among large serrated leaves, with small dressed monkeys in between and faint grey bands with circles running through them. Red, salmon, ochre and green give the image a painterly depth. More graphic is Lucky O's wallpaper: rows of overlapping half circles in beige with wood grain on an almost black background, built up from veneer mosaic, making the wall look like waves. Shoji Blossom wallpaper divides the wall into panels like a shoji screen and fills them with embossed flowers, tone-on-tone in blue-grey. On Indigo Macaque wallpaper, macaque families bathe in hot springs at the foot of Japanese mountains, embroidered in colour on a denim-look base. Tie-Tami wallpaper in jute and raffia refers to tatami mats and lets abstract clouds drift slowly across the wall.

Combining Tokyo Blue by Moooi in your interior

In the images, the patterns hang as panels against a dark wall, with furniture standing calmly opposite. A dark blue loveseat tempers the busyness of Rendezvous, a light speckled sofa brings out the arches of Lucky O's and rust-brown fabric warms the blue-grey relief of Shoji Blossom. If you want plenty to look at, choose a figurative pattern. If you want calm, a pattern in one or two shades works better.