Collage III wallpaper collection Mark Alexander

Collage III wallpaper by Mark Alexander: natural fibre in patchwork, weave and stripe

Collage III wallpaper brings woven natural fibre to your wall in geometric compositions and earth tones. The collection by Mark Alexander works with abaca, sisal, raffia, water hyacinth and crumpled Japanese paper. Sometimes the patches lie crisscrossed over each other, sometimes they form a tight grid or long strips. What remains is the structure: you see the weft, the frayed edge, the loose thread. The colour palette runs from grey-green and taupe via sand to purple-brown. So within one family you can choose a wall that looks calm or one with more rhythm.

Patterns in the Collage III wallpaper collection

Abaca Patchwork wallpaper features staggered rectangular patches of abaca in varying sizes, with frayed edges, in grey-green, taupe and light grey. Lattice Mosaic wallpaper is a regular basket-weave pattern of sisal: small sections alternate between horizontal and vertical, in brown, aubergine and mauve. Medina wallpaper sets raffia in vertical stripes of unequal width, sand-coloured with dark brown bands. In Duo Abaca wallpaper, different colours of abaca yarn play off against each other. Koshi wallpaper shows a large check of raffia on hand-spun cotton. Meridian wallpaper is a patchwork of crumpled Japanese paper with great depth. Hyacinth wallpaper forms a grid of water hyacinth with a subtle sheen, Suru wallpaper a fine pattern of hand-cut raffia. Kobe wallpaper and Bakbak wallpaper complete the range.

Combining Collage III by Mark Alexander in your interior

In the images, the wallpaper sits among materials that bring out the fibre: armchairs with woven armrests, marble side tables, a wooden bench with a rope seat and a floor of terracotta tiles. If you choose the grey-green patchwork, light plaster walls and beige cushions work well. The purple-brown weave calls for grazing light: in slanting sunlight each section stands out. Medina's stripes, by contrast, draw your eye upward.