Lisen & Selma

Lisen & Selma

A mineral green ground holds the small fleur de lis in tight semé, each figure individually drawn so no two neighbours match. The motif is drawn from letterpress, the ivory lifting softly above the deep ground. At room scale the pattern reads as texture; up close, as heraldry.

Fits in

• Study
• Library
• Dining room
• Panelled hallway
• Gentleman's office
• Cabinet de curiosités

Color palette

A mineral green ground in the register of malachite and oxidised bronze, deep enough to hold the room but quiet enough to recede. The ivory motif reads as aged parchment, warm in undertone, and the temperature contrast between figure and ground gives the paper its compositional weight.

Complementing colors

Malachite Green, Oxidised Bronze, Aged Parchment, Cool Moss, Ivory

The figure carries a soft raised impression drawn from letterpress, the ivory lifting gently above the green ground rather than sitting on it. The surface holds the tactile memory of the block, where the matrix has shaped the sheet itself.

Gustav, Jan & Astrid

With Gustav, Jan & Astrid, we revisit a distinctly Swedish design tradition—where gustavian ornament, folkloric elements, and stencil printing coexisted across both class and countryside. From manor house parlours to rural cabins, walls carried a visual language shaped by repetition, handcraft, and subtle variation.

We take our starting point in gustaviansk simplicity—the restrained Swedish neoclassicism of the late 18th century—but allow it to dissolve gently into folk memory. Each pattern carries traces of nobility—and of how that nobility was interpreted by the common hand.

What binds the collection together is our use of stencil logic—but with a Linlava intervention: variation i varje våd. Each form is repeated, but never identical.

We treat the stencil not as an end, but as a starting point.

We ask: what if each ornament were applied again and again by hand, with shifts in angle, paint load, or even interpretation?

At Linlava, we’re not imitating tradition—we’re extending it. Through layered textures, imperfect repetition, and historically grounded forms, Gustav, Jan & Astrid becomes a study in how memory, hand, and ornament can shape a new kind of room.