Misha hand painted wallcoverings
Misha's painted designs are made by hand on silk, as walls were dressed before anyone printed them. Each is a single work, made to order for one wall.
Hume Internationale has been the exclusive supplier of Misha in Australia and New Zealand since 2021. Misha's designs are developed in Milan by the architect Chiara Enrico with her sister Anna, and painted on silk by artisans in Shanghai. The name joins the two cities: Mi from Milan, Sha from Shanghai.
Weeks of painting in every panel
A panel takes an artisan weeks. Gradients are laid in with natural pigments until the colour softens to something closer to watercolour than paint. On some designs, silk thread is then worked into the figures, and they lift off the surface as they do on antique tapestry.
Silk and painting, each coloured to the room
The silk and the painting on it are coloured separately, so a design takes the room's palette. The silk is Dupion, textured by the uneven yarn it is woven from, the fine gauze of Japanese silk, or Double Silk, a fine silk over a metallic base that shifts with the light. Metal leaf, applied by hand, is the alternative.
Laid out panel by panel, as in the 1700s
Each design arrives as a layup, numbered panels showing how it breaks across the space, the way Canton supplied its painted papers to London.
Panels are reselected and resized, and plain panels in the same silk and colour carry the design around the room.
It is specified as artwork, and carries no fire rating.
