Kha

2021

Giovanni Pesce

Brutalist architecture, popular between the '50s and '70s, was the bearer of a bold and imposing movement that spread around the world with different social and political nuances expressed in a single recognizable architectural language, characterised by massive buildings, rough shapes and raw materials, exposed concrete above all, as the emblem of a certain constructive clarity in expressing the nature and expressive force of its structure.

For this wallpaper I was inspired by the simple shapes yet majestic proportions of manifold Brutalist buildings that have become veritable architectural icons over time. I then decided to combine them with Vienna straw, characterised by equidistant holes and a weave that generates a harmony which mitigates the harshness of concrete. Giovanni Pesce