Fornasetti’s Celestial Vision Illuminates Walls with Soli
The storied Italian design house brings its most recognisable motif to wallpaper, collaborating with Cole & Son to transform rooms into sun drenched dreamscapes. Radiant faces gather across Soli, a meditation on light, imagination and the decorative poetry that has defined the Fornasetti aesthetic for generations.
AI-assisted voice playback. Starts only when you choose Play.
The sun has always possessed a peculiar gravity within the Fornasetti universe. It is an emblem of radiance, a cosmological anchor, a symbol that appears across objects and interiors with the persistence of an obsession. In the 1960s, when the family home in Varenna overlooked the glimmering waters of Lake Como, this celestial form took centre stage in the decorative imagination, casting its benevolent gaze across rooms and lives alike.
Now this enduring motif finds new expression through Soli, a wallpaper that transforms the language of walls into something altogether more poetic. Conceived in collaboration with Cole & Son, the pattern gathers radiant faces into a landscape that feels dreamlike, intimate, almost meditative. These are not mere repetitions of a single image but rather a gathering of suns, each one possessed of its own character, its own subtle variation of expression.
The power of Soli lies in its ability to illuminate without electricity, to infuse a room with a quality of light that transcends the merely decorative. To experience this wallpaper is to understand that Fornasetti has never simply created objects; rather, the house has always been engaged in the business of transforming space itself into something rarified, something touched by imagination and grace.
The collaboration with Cole & Son brings together two traditions of exceptional craftsmanship: the Italian design sensibility that has defined Fornasetti since its founding, and the heritage of one of the world’s finest wallpaper makers. The result is a surface that speaks to both the historical continuum of decorative arts and the timeless appeal of the sun as symbol, as light source, as metaphor for renewal and contemplation.
Soli represents the essence of what makes Fornasetti so enduringly captivating: the conviction that interiors should nourish the imagination as much as they shelter the body. A room adorned with this wallpaper becomes a space infused with intention, with a particular kind of beauty that whispers rather than shouts, that invites contemplation rather than mere observation.
Imagery courtesy of Fornasetti (@fornasetti).
