A wall can hold a city that doesn't exist, a night in the desert, an ancient Roman road, a quiet gesture. These are the four visions that close Murals Pattern Lab 2026, the open call we launched for people who design surfaces. The winners are Fabiola Sangineto, Guya Maggi, Barbara Rossi and Chiara Abbaticchio, and their eight collections are now part of the Murals catalog, printed to measure.
What Murals Pattern Lab is
Between May and July 2026, Murals opened Pattern Lab, an international call for graphic designers, illustrators, surface designers and students. The theme was open, and each entry could include up to three original projects.
We weren't looking for a motif to repeat. We were looking for a way of seeing the wall. We developed the selected designs together with their authors until they became real surfaces: designs printed to the actual size of the wall and on the material of your choice, like every other collection in the catalog.
Fabiola Sangineto: architecture as rhythm
Fabiola Sangineto's two collections start from the same material, architecture, and take it in opposite directions.
Architectural Fragments takes classical language apart. Arches, stairways, columns and volumes overlap into an imaginary city, drawn with an essential, contemporary geometry. Solids and voids create depth, while small details break the regularity of the design. Structure and decoration hold each other in balance, and the wall becomes a stage you keep rediscovering.
Theater of Memory turns that same precision toward storytelling. Axonometric drawing builds an impossible city of towers, stairs and small suspended buildings, crossed by a hot-air balloon that hints at travel and discovery. It's a contemporary take on Mediterranean architecture, a small city to explore with your eyes. Both belong to the Abstract family.
Guya Maggi: imagined landscapes, nature without rules
With Guya Maggi, the wall opens onto places no map can hold.
Pantelleria Dusk is a fantasy desert of dunes, palms, cacti and deep skies. The drawing keeps the charm of the handmade gesture, with its textures and small imperfections, while night adds depth and a quiet sense of mystery. A journey between Mediterranean echoes and faraway lands, in the Landscapes family.
Botanical Baroque lets nature leave every rule behind and become pure decoration. Leaves and botanical forms grow and overlap freely, in a line that moves between solid shapes, textures and almost embroidered details. The composition has the rhythm of a textile and the presence of a large mural: lush, yet refined, in the Nature family.
Barbara Rossi: memory, mosaic and traces of the sea
Barbara Rossi signs three collections that work with time: what remains, and how it changes.
Roman Enchantment follows an ancient road through a quiet Roman landscape of pines, cypresses and fragments of architecture. The illustrated line softens the weight of history and turns it into an intimate space to live in. A wall that invites you to travel without leaving the room, in the Landscapes family.
Musiva grows from the meeting of mosaic, stone and the handmade gesture. Large circular forms, each fragment different and deliberately imperfect, carry the memory of Mediterranean surfaces into an essential language: simple from across the room, surprisingly rich up close.
Nautilus brings shells and ammonites to the wall, rebuilt from a fine weave of irregular fragments. Its spirals suggest growth and the slow rhythm of nature, and the repetition never turns rigid, so the composition stays airy. Musiva and Nautilus belong to the Abstract family.
Chiara Abbaticchio: a wall that speaks softly
Wishful is the quietest collection of the group, and maybe the most memorable. A woman holds a small flower while everything around her seems to dissolve. A few lines are enough to suggest presence and feeling, and the wide empty space isn't background: it's part of the drawing.
It isn't a portrait. It's a fragment of a story that keeps going beyond the wall. An illustrated wallpaper that leaves room for whoever lives with it, in the Abstract family.
Eight collections, one measurement: your wall
The eight Murals Pattern Lab 2026 collections join the catalog like every other Murals design: you choose the colorway and the material, then frame the part of the design that fits the real size of your wall. Each collection keeps its author's name. That's how Murals presents the surfaces born from a collaboration: designed by.
Four different ways of looking (a deconstructed architecture, a night landscape, an ancient road, a held gesture) all point to the same idea: designer wallpaper doesn't just decorate a room, it connects it to a story.
Meet the winners and their collections or explore all the new Pattern Lab designs.
