WALLPAPERS :

For a long time, wallpaper was something that had to be removed urgently to take possession of a place, an essential return to the material of the wall before any space could be taken over. The same burning desire to return to the original and particularly sounder materials applies to the floors, where any trace of covering had to be removed.

In other words, I perceived wallpaper as an enemy to be destroyed.

At the same time, I took a certain pleasure in the slow job of stripping the paper, which revealed successive layers whose increasingly "old-fashioned" styles fascinated me. I even ended up keeping some of the fragments, humble witnesses of a not very long-gone past which perfectly recreated the atmosphere of their time.

So, paradoxically, I also had a certain liking for wallpaper. However, when I was considering adding some to the range, I drew my inspiration from the early wallpapers, before industrialisation and rolls, when technology would only stretch to producing sheets, which were often squares. (...)