Tres Tintas Barcelona has just launched its Les Vangardes designer wallpaper collection, created by illustrator and designer Sophia Pega and wallpaper company Aribau.
The collection is inspired by scented flowers, Chinoiserie and spectacular jungle foliage, and makes three references — tropical (with the design Bananella), Far Eastern (Chinella) and European (Florella). Highly personal in style, the three wallpapers represent a stylistic journey that departs from tradition and makes use of new techniques to create compositions that are fresh and interesting rather than conventional. Exoticism, exuberance, serenity, harmony, freshness and spring breezes are all evoked by these designs. The three papers are a perfect fusion of refinement, the handcrafted and contemporary sophistication.
What’s more, last February the company also unveiled its Méditerranéen collection — created by the interior design studio Lázaro Rosa-Violán and Lazaro and his graphic design team — which transports us to the very essence of the Mediterranean, to the handcrafted, natural textiles, clay, wood, woven fabrics, all of which evoke fishing boats seen under starry skies at midnight. The collection takes us to a coastal, Mediterranean world thanks to its colours — blue, turquoise, earth tones… In order to synthesise this message and convert it into prints, a Japanese printing technique called Gyotaku was used. This involves covering a material with ink, then applying this to rice paper to create a beautifully uneven print.
So what if we did things a little differently? That’s how the idea of offering customers of its traditional wallpaper shop in Barcelona truly contemporary, fresh, original, attractive products with a unique creative approach came about. A year later, in 2004, Tres Tintas was founded. It was a wallpaper and fabrics company whose goal was to do something entirely new — offering a radically alternative style of wallpaper. Its dreams have come true, and its exclusive wallpaper and fabric collections created by different designers are currently available in over 36 countries.