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Cool blue-grey wallpaper with layered linear marks and a softly weathered abstract texture

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Mark Alexander

Akata Storm

Collage Wallpaper

Akata Storm is a cool blue-grey wallpaper with a richly layered, abstract surface. Fine intersecting lines, pale strokes and deeper storm-toned marks create a softly weathered impression across the design.

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About this wallpaper

The colour sits between misted grey and muted blue, giving the pattern a calm, slightly atmospheric depth rather than a bright or strongly saturated effect. Across the surface, overlapping horizontal and vertical lines are broken by loose, sketch-like marks that resemble fragments of collage. Subtle variations between chalky pale grey and deeper slate accents keep the eye moving without creating a dominant motif. As part of Mark Alexander’s Collage collection, this wallpaper has a quietly graphic character that reads as textured and considered at close range.

How to use it

Pair Akata Storm with chalky whites, pale timber and brushed metal for a cool, restrained scheme, or use it behind darker blue-grey upholstery to draw out its stormy depth. Its layered marks work particularly well as a backdrop where furniture and lighting can sit clearly in front of the pattern.

Use this cool, atmospheric blue-grey wallpaper to bring layered movement and quiet depth to contemporary or classic rooms.

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Pairs well with

A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Akata Storm without fighting it. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.

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Paint that goes with it

Two ways to take the room. Both colours are from houses we hold, so a pot can come off the same order as the cloth. Screens shift colour, so treat these as a direction and bring the cloth to the shelf before you buy the paint.

To sit quietly behind it

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To stand against it

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