Les Dessins wallpaper collection Pierre Frey

Les Dessins wallpaper by Pierre Frey: drawn scenes on a light background

The Les Dessins wallpaper by Pierre Frey consists of hand-drawn, coloured illustrations on a light background. You see horses and riders, butterflies and shells, costumes and stacks of fabric, drawn with ink, pencil and watercolour. Each pattern has its own composition: freely scattered sketches, a grid of cards or regular rows. The hand of the artist holds the collection together. Lines and brushstrokes remain visible. This makes the wall look more like an open sketchbook than a repeating pattern.

Seven patterns in the Les Dessins wallpaper collection

In Jour de fete wallpaper, horses gallop in all directions, among riders, an acrobat in red, a clown with a lance and a cyclist on a penny-farthing, loosely sketched in watercolour and ink on off-white. Bel ami wallpaper is a collage of postcards and nature studies with butterflies, birds, eggs, shells and pink roses, each with a handwritten caption. Gaya wallpaper displays flat-laid tunics with wide, embroidered skirts in staggered rows, in red, pink, turquoise and ochre. Mauritius wallpaper shows an island in the shadow of palm trees. Mojito wallpaper fills the wall with winding plants full of flowers and fruits. Venus wallpaper interprets scenes freely after works by François Boucher and Giambattista Tiepolo. L'armoire de marguerite wallpaper shows painted stacks of fabric on shelves, from toile de Jouy to damask.

Pierre Frey wallpaper with drawn scenes on your wall

The photos show how the patterns work with what stands in front of them. Jour de fete is paired with old leather and aluminium suitcases, Bel ami with a curved chair, a straw hat and a guitar. Gaya is set off by a yellow-green sofa with cushions in blue-green and burgundy. Because the background is always light, the drawings remain legible, even with furniture in front of them. With Les Dessins wallpaper you get a wall on which you discover a different detail each time.