2017 Architizer A+ Awards Winner

Calico Wallpaper is excited to announce that our Satori Collection has been chosen by the jury of the Architizer A+ Awards as the winner of the Finishes- Wall Coverings & Ceilings category.

Architizer: Milan Design Week 2017 Through the Lens

We may have already named our favorite 10 installations seen during Milan Design Week 2017, but in reality, that list could easily have been 20 (or 30) as there were feasts for the eyes just about everywhere we looked. Today, we showcase the rest of the best spotted in the various design districts, historic sites, and the Milano fairgrounds, home of Salone del Mobile.

Calico Wallpaper
The wallpaper concern’s new collaborations were installed exhibit-style in a gallery space of the Brera district. The biggest standout? In our opinion, it was Snarkitecture‘s Topographies, which looks like a three-dimensional torn-paper composition from afar but up close, is actually a two-dimensional pixelated wall covering.

Topographies Winter; Microcosmos Umbra & Plume are shown above.

AD.com: Faye Toogood Was the Master of Milan

Two of her introductions – the wallpaper she designed with Calico and the handmade quilts she stitched for Once Milano (they’re hanging in BDDW) – reflect one of Toogood’s most personal interests: painting. “There is a freedom in this way of working, by hand painting, and I enjoy that very direct sense of craft, without any technology,” she says. For both projects she worked directly on canvas, building up images through appliqué on the quilts, and then encasing a room in her brushstroke renditions of the English countryside, for Calico. “I felt it quite wonderful to literally bring the countryside inside.”

Woodlands, Fields, Moors in Fields is shown above.

WMagazine.com: Milan Design Week 2017: The Top 10 Very Best in Show

Calico Wallpaper’s exhibition “Imagined Landscape” offers a series of wall murals by cutting-edge designers, like BCXSY’s delicate Microcosmos, Ana Kraš’s Mira & Miloš Collection, Snarkitecture’s Topographies Collection, and the whimsical Woodlands, Fields, Moors Collection by Faye Toogood, the British designer whose work seems to be all over Milan this year.

Woodlands, Fields, Moors Fields is shown above.

Wallpaper*Magazine.com: Salone del Mobile 2017

Calico Walpaper’s new launches this year includes Snarkitecture’s architectural torn paper wall covering… and a bucolic scene by Faye Toogood.

…In the confines of Rosanna Orlandi’s creative sanctuary, Sé has styled an apartment furnished top to toe with its products. The space includes fabrics by Dedar, and a new design by BCXSY for Calico Wallpaper.

Mira, Roze; Woodlands, Fields, Moors Fields; and Microcosmos Plume are shown above.

AD.com: Calico Wallpaper Collaborates with Faye Toogood, Snarkitecture, Ana Kraš, and BCXSY

Some subjects in art never cease to be reinterpreted. One such everlasting muse? The landscape. For Brooklyn-based Calico Wallpaper’s Imagined Landscape presentation in Milan’s Brera Design District this week – their first ever stand-alone exhibition for Milan Design Week – the husband-and-wife duo asked four of their favorite creatives to turn their personalized riffs on landscapes into digitally printed wallpapers…

Microcosmos Umbra, Plume; Topographies Winter; Microcosmos Crest; and Fields, Woodlands, Moors Fields are shown above.

NYTimes: Interior Design Risks Worth Taking

Megan Hopp, an interior designer with Homepolish, used abstract custom wallpaper with a cosmic theme in lavender and silver to enliven a small, plain bedroom in an East Village apartment she decorated for a client last year… The print, a metallic wash from Calico Wallpaper’s Inverted Spaces collection, takes up two walls in the bedroom and cost about $4,000. “It was a big price tag, but we all agreed that it really is a work of art on its own,” Ms. Hopp said. “We kept every other piece really neutral – no pattern, no color, nothing, an absolutely clean canvas – so as to let this glorious paper do its thing.”

Inverted Spaces Andromeda is shown above

Architectural Digest: The Future Perfect’s New Los Angeles Showroom Is a Midcentury-Modern Dream

Eschewing traditional retail venues, company founder David Alhadeff established his new L.A. outpost in a private residence in the hills above West Hollywood… Open by appointment only, Casa Perfect beckons visitors with the promise of a more intimate interaction with the company’s wide-ranging collections… Casa Perfect’s inaugural installation features a variety of product introductions dispersed throughout the four-bedroom home and its patios and gardens.

Aurora Ray and Cirrus Vapor are shown above

Architectural Digest: The Stunning Transformation of a Brooklyn Apartment

Interior designer and social media darling Megan Pflug uses subtle hues and natural light to reinvent a previously cramped space… Floor-to-ceiling curtains draw attention to the 12-foot ceilings in the living room, while the Calico wallpaper adds visual interest. “I liked the idea of using gold and metallics to add warmth and play with texture,” Peterson says.

Wabi Cloud is shown above

Architectural Digest: Tour New York’s Holiday House

Calico Wallpaper was asked to contribute to New York’s 2016 Holiday House, in which two townhouses in SoHo were transformed for a great cause.  As shown in the image above, designer Jamie Walters used a wallpaper from the Cirrus Collection in the colorway Veil in her Friendsgiving-themed kitchen.

Cirrus Veil is shown above

How One Design Studio Is Keeping Traditional Craft Techniques Alive

Designers Nicholas and Rachel Cope of Calico Wallpaper draw inspiration from all kinds of unlikely places. To inform their latest work – a silk triptych commissioned by the design gallery Friedman Benda – the couple… riffed on a traditional dyeing technique for a pattern that nods to the earth’s crust…

Custom batik on silk artwork, exemplary of our bespoke services

Sight Unseen: Calico Wallpaper’s Envy-Inducing Airy Red Hook Loft

In hindsight, it feels almost like fate that Nick and Rachel Cope would end up in the sprawling, historic Red Hook loft they now call home. After all, where else in New York City could they have found the room to showcase not one but six of the wallpaper collections they’ve created since 2012 as partners in the Brooklyn-based Calico? But in fact, the couple moved in years before they began working together, meaning that the walls were once white despite now seeming as if they’ve been adorned with marbled metallics, soothing ombrés, and dripping gold leaf for practically ever…

Wabi River (slides 1, 3), Lunaris Midnight (slides 7-9), Willow Blush (slide 11), Satori Fir (slide 13), and Aurora Ray (slide 16) are shown above

A Cup of Jo: 11 Great Wallpapers

11 Great Wallpapers: Do you have any wallpaper in your home? We’ve always rented our apartments, so we never have, but I really love the idea. Here are a bunch of pretty ones…

Aurora Azure is shown above