The creative duo Pensieri Illustrati, comprising Chiara Speziale and Matteo Vilardo, has created a collection of wallpapers for SpaghettiWall that feature a rich and layered illustrative style that weaves together memory and culture in a visual narrative inspired by the designers’ Sicilian homeland.
The collection follows a precise and personal artistic vision, giving form to the designs Intarsi, Mia and Finestra di Fichi. It is precisely in this latter design that the dense landscapes are depicted, traversed by the rhythmic presence of the prickly pears typical of Trinacria. This Mediterranean plant serves as a matrix that spreads and repeats itself, inscribed within an artificial frame, concealed and gradually enveloped by the luxuriance of nature.
Intarsi, on the other hand, draws on an iconographic repertoire from the early 20th century and evokes a fragment of a Baroque relic — a now-lost building in Messina, designed by Filippo Juvarra. The technique of mixed marbles is reinterpreted here through the filter of illustration, which preserves its decorative richness and amplifies it in bright, opulent color fields. The pattern is subsequently interspersed with geometric forms, which punctuate the surface and preserve its ornamentation.
With the Mia wallpaper, available in both single-motif and repeating patterns, Speziale and Vilardo outline the silhouette of a stylized female figure, with simple, almost primitive features. Her body is deliberately sketched and takes on an upward-reaching pose, criss-crossed by undulating lines that amplify her movement. The result is an open composition, devoid of defined boundaries, in which soft, neutral colors interact with brighter shades to create a complementary balance.
