![]() ![]() His design was based on a 3,500-year-old fresco, discovered by a friend of Frank’s, from the palace in Knossos on Crete. The composition of the design itself was inspired by a Josef Frank design from 1938 called Anakreon. Lichens, thin-lipped frogs, hummingbirds and toucans, along with my bears, were the subjects of my detailed drawings, and have formed the basis of this design. During long periods spent alone for my research, I became obsessed with the intricate patterns and colour around me. The Andean spectacled bear, a mysterious and endangered species and inspiration for Paddington Bear, was the focus of my years of study in the Andean cloud forest of Bolivia’s Madidi National Park. Cacti wallpaper wizard free#The production process is solvent free with minimal waste and energy inputs. It is printed in the UK on a natural non-woven cellulose-based substrate made from recycled materials, recycled polyester (PET) fibre and recycled wood pulp. This is an eco-friendly fine gicleé digitally-printed “real” wallpaper. Furthermore, for every roll of wallpaper sold, 100m2 of critical wild habitat is preserved through World Land Trust. With exquisite botanical detail, it builds upon the current passion in interiors for honouring the natural world. The contemporary design has quite an elegant structured style and a limited palate based around the blues and greens of the Puya flowers. This plant grows to 15m (50ft) tall with 30,000 individual flowers when it blooms, which is once every one hundred years! They also have natural antifreeze and some of the longest flower spikes in the world such as Puya raymondi, known as Queen of the Andes, the spherical plant bases and spikes depicted in this design. The bases of these bromeliads are important bear foods and many have beautiful turquoise flowers. ![]() They also serve as specific pollinators for many flowers such as those in the Puya genus. These super-heroic little birds can fly at speeds which, relative to body length, are greater than any other vertebrate, with wing-speeds of over 80 beats per second. This design features Andean Hillstars, Great Sapphirewings, and Giant Hummingbirds. The Madidi Hummingbirds design is a tribute to the incredible diversity of Andean hummingbirds, of which there are 140 different species. ![]()
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