It’s Botany the new trend for spring/summer 2017
Botany. Literally the discipline of biology that studies the life forms in the plant world. And the subject that typically, from the times of Theophrastus and Pliny the Elder, binds us irrevocably to flora, to gardens, to plants and to everything that we define as the “green world”.
Just as gastronomy, black&white and turmeric, botany too is currently experiencing its moment of glory in fashion, in lifestyle in general and also in children’s design.
The first tentative examples of foliage and flowers appear as wallpaper patterns proceeding then to bigger dimensions and specificities including extra large cactus and the typical spots of colour in the undergrowth of a forest or of a classic jungle. No shortage of enchanted gardens and floral themes, with tips from the orchard, that leave everyone breathless.
Cacti are a real craze. Among iconic shapes and new interpretations, they appear, either in a group or individually, on bedroom objects, on lamps, rugs and posters in dozens of different shades of bright green.
Not only just thorns, though. From Pinterest, the online destination for visual design lovers, arrives a new trend referring to another botanic species and variety: monstera deliciosa. Native of Mexico, it is a plant with large, jagged, shiny and stiff leaves that have become true style icons for those who love minimalism. Leaves as temporary tattoos but also as bibs and on ever-present posters and wallpaper backgrounds for home. Design turns into a herbarium open to everyday life.
