Meander

Few patterns have travelled quite as successfully as the meander. It has moved between cultures, materials and centuries, appearing on everything from ancient pottery to architecture and textiles. Its familiarity has become part of its appeal.

Meander takes that long decorative history as permission to play rather than something to preserve. The recognisable geometry is still present, but it becomes caught up with other forms. One pattern seems to interrupt another, creating a more layered and less predictable composition.

Perhaps this is why old motifs remain so useful. Their history gives them familiarity, but familiarity also makes them remarkably open to change. A small adjustment in scale, colour or complexity can make something ancient feel surprisingly current.

Mosaic seems particularly comfortable with this idea. It is itself an ancient decorative material that continues to find new expressions. Here, pressed glass replaces stone and ceramic, bringing gloss and strong colour to a pattern whose ancestry reaches much further back.

Meander does not try to modernise history or tidy it up. It simply joins a very long tradition of borrowing, altering and passing decorative ideas forward.

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