The Boardroom Reimagined — When a Wall Becomes a Landscape
The boardroom is one of the most overlooked rooms in commercial design. Functional by brief, it is too often resolved by formula — a table, chairs, and walls that ask nothing of the people sitting between them. Tana Jovic Interior Design takes a different view. In this commercial office project, the meeting room wall becomes the defining design decision of the entire space — and the wallcovering is how it gets there.
Behind the meeting table, a large-format landscape mural wallcovering spans the full width of the feature wall across two precisely framed panels. The design is rendered in the style of a fine ink engraving — ancient trees, rocky outcrops, rolling hills and distant mountains drawn in warm sepia line on a pale ivory ground. At full architectural scale, the effect is remarkable: the wall ceases to be a boundary and becomes a view. A landscape. A world the room opens onto. This is a wallcovering decision that fundamentally changes the character of what happens in the space.
The mural is not applied continuously — it is installed as two full-height discrete panels, each bounded by a slim warm oak frame that integrates with the room’s glazed partition system. This framing decision is critical. It gives the mural the authority of considered artwork while simultaneously anchoring it to the architecture of the room. The oak frame, the oak table, the woven sisal underfoot — everything in the room defers to the wall, and the wall holds the room together.
In a commercial environment, the walls communicate the values of the organisation that occupies them. A boardroom with a landscape mural of this quality and restraint communicates something specific: that this is a practice that values considered beauty, that understands the relationship between environment and thinking, and that brings the same quality of attention to its own space that it brings to the spaces of its clients. The wallcovering is not decoration here. It is a statement of professional identity.
The wallcovering does not operate alone. Tana's material language throughout the office — ribbed oak panelling in the circulation zone, a sculptural dark veined marble plinth beneath floating black cabinetry, herringbone oak flooring in the private office, woven sisal in the boardroom — creates an environment of consistent material intelligence. Every surface has been chosen with the same rigour. The wallcovering is the emotional and visual peak of that rigour, but it reads as part of a complete design language rather than an isolated gesture.
What distinguishes Tana Jovic's approach in this project is the application of a residential sensibility to a commercial brief. The warmth of the materials, the intimacy of the mural scale, the considered styling of the private office — these are qualities more commonly found in the finest homes than in office environments. The result is a workplace that feels genuinely inhabitable: a space people want to spend time in, think clearly in, and bring clients into with pride. The wallcovering is the instrument of that shift.
This project demonstrates that the case for considered wallcovering is as strong in commercial environments as it is in residential ones — perhaps stronger. Supplied by WCI Wallpapers, the landscape mural in this boardroom proves that the right surface, chosen with conviction and installed with precision, can transform not just how a room looks but how the people inside it think, feel, and work. The wall is never background. Here, it is the view.