Tales of the Manor – Fun Animal Wallpaper – Sage Green

This vintage-inspired wallpaper features quirky animals engaged in decidedly human pursuits — fishing, pouring tea, reading — each framed as a portrait on a hanging china plate.

Tales of the Manor is a collector's wall of overlapping white china plates, painted against a tonal damask background so it reads as wallpaper hung on wallpaper. A stag sits for his portrait in a military coat with gold epaulettes; a cat wears a captain's cap and an argyle jumper; a squirrel wears a red beret; a hare pours from a teapot; a frog in a waistcoat fishes at a pond, painted as a full landscape across an oval platter. A badger, a mouse and an owl appear on their own plates, and toadstools, ladybirds, a beetle, a lizard, butterflies and small birds are scattered between them.

The soft green is the gentlest of the four, so the white plates sit forward clearly and the portraits keep all the colour.

Tales of the Manor is an offset match with a 64cm pattern repeat, printed on a non-woven substrate: you paste the wall rather than the paper, which makes it quicker to hang and strippable when you remove it. Also available in Ochre, Blue and Blush.