From wanting to try two opposites at once

Fröviva

Flowers and their pistils, given room to move inside a strict diamond grid.

The story

Where organic meets a grid

Karolina Reit, on drawing Fröviva

Fröviva began with a question Karolina wanted to test: could something organic sit comfortably inside something strict? The pattern is built on a grid of standing diamonds, each holding a flower whose pistils reach out past its edges, giving the whole thing movement without breaking the structure. She wasn't sure, at the time, whether anyone else would find that combination as interesting as she did. Since then, she's seen it land with people, which she takes as proof it wasn't just her.

From the studio

Fröviva, before the wall

Drawing the grid. The diamond repeat was worked out in black and white first, pattern before palette.
Onto the roller. The diamond lattice and its flowers begin to repeat as the roll comes through, slowed right down.
Mixing citrus and sunshine. The warm yellow base is worked to the right shade before it goes anywhere near the roller.

Three colourways

One pattern, three rooms

Shown at the same scale, in the same light. Open one to see it on a wall and order a sample.

Soft Mandarin 01
Warm off-white ground, with pale apricot-yellow flowers and pistils, a hint of red.
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Lichen Green 02
Off-white ground, with dusty light-green leaves and pistils.
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Light Blue Ash 03
Off-white ground, with soft dusty-blue flowers and pistils.
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Fröviva, in a sample set

A4 samples of the real paper, posted flat. See Fröviva against the room before you commit to a roll, on its own or beside the patterns it lives well with.