The world of art and design, however, is full of their varied forms and colors. They play upon floral wallpaper and peek from behind sprays of fabric greenery. Butterflies, beetles, crickets and ants frolic together here as they do in the natural world. Since then, a multitude of cultures have embraced natural design in living spaces with the Egyptian scarab, the Japanese cricket, the Chinese dragonfly and the bumblebee, a symbol which was first introduced by Napoleon and Josephine of France.
Walls are one place to incorporate the freshness of nature into interior design.
Carmela North , interior designer at Home Depot , describes one such paper. Stylized butterflies appear in Changing Seasons by Waverly. They are done in muted tones of blue, gold and red. The wallpaper is softer than its coordinated fabric design within that same line, says North. These butterflies are stylized both light and airy.