IDEAT | In Ghent, a country house where design goes green

Nick and Rachel Cope, founders of the wallpaper brand Calico , have a weekend retreat just a two-and-a-half-hour drive from their Brooklyn , New York, studio-home. “ We were looking for a place closer to nature, without cutting ourselves off from our work and our community, ” Nick explains. In the midst of the pandemic, this couple with two children began searching for a second home where the family could live differently while having more space.

Photography by William Jess Laird

Wallpaper | Calico Wallpaper launches Estuary

Calico Wallpaper held an intimate dinner to celebrate the launch of Estuary, a new wallpaper collection created in collaboration with Ahluwalia at NoMad London.

The new collection of wallpaper designs features a series of evocative and fluid forms with varying colour and depth. The collection is rooted in migration, storytelling and craftsmanship, reflecting on how identity is shaped by the memories and journeys we carry with us.

Dinner held at NoMad, 28 Bow St, London WC2E 7AW

Photography by Jason Lloyd Evans

British Vogue | Ahluwalia Sparks Joy

Priya Ahluwalia’s collection may have been born from a swell of negativity (fashion week can often feel like a disconcerting bubble, when outside it appears as if the world is caving in!), but as it progressed “the mood has shifted somewhat”. As well as designs referencing active forms of resistance – think: sharp Black Panther-inspired tailoring, newly-introduced black leathers – it’s a collection that revels in lightness too.

“I was thinking about small acts of joy, balancing negativity with positivity,” Ahluwalia explains of the smile-inducing puffball skirts, organzas and fringed flourishes that floated down the catwalk at the Rosewood Hotel. The brand’s geometric set featured panels of hand-painted wallpaper resembling vast swathes of water, an 18-month endeavour and the fruits of a collaboration with Calico Wallpaper.

Photography by Jason Lloyd Evans

The Fashion | LFW SS27: Ahluwalia

Priya Ahluwalia looked to resistance movements, friendship and the idea of taking up space for spring/summer 2027, presenting her latest collection Revel at London Fashion Week.

The show took place at the Rosewood hotel in central London, with Ahluwalia presenting her ready-to-wear alongside the third drop of her collaboration with Puma. Bright trainers and fringed tracksuits appeared alongside sharply cut satin, sheer dresses and sculptural skirts..

Hypebae | Ahluwalia Latest PUMA Collaboration

Ahluwalia just teased its newest collaboration with PUMA on the runway at London Fashion Week. Debuting as part of the brand’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection, the collaboration includes a reworked T7 track jacket, knitted football tops and knitted dresses, along with Ahluwalia Speedcats in new colorways and a first-time footwear silhouette, arriving in black and silver.

As a whole, the “Revel” collection reimagines joy as an act of resistance, positions self-care as a protective barrier and kindness as a necessary form of community-building. Taking inspiration from FESTAC ‘77, a pan-African music and art festival in Lagos, SS27 blends the sounds of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti with Mumbai’s burgeoning rap scene.

Vogue | Ahluwalia Spring 2027 Ready-to-Wear

“I’m going to hustle as much as I can to make my dreams come true. Basically, I think that’s all you can do.” Priya Ahluwalia was speaking after a show whose collection notes ran to two pages and sponsor notes to four: her hustle is real. Thankfully, alongside the Puma collab (nice), shown against a runway backdrop of Ahluwalia-designed wallpaper by Calico (dreamy), in the basement of the Rosewood London (luxe), with complimentary low-sugar sodas by Poppi (fruity), there was a fashion collection substantial enough to carry all that spon-con: her talent is real, too.

Photography by Jason Lloyd Evans

Family Style | Beverly 1975

For Beverly Nguyen, a homewares shop has never been simply a place to buy stuff. Since her eponymous boutique began as a Lower East Side pop-up in 2021, the New York-based stylist and creative director has approached domestic objects as a kind of social language: small, useful things that accumulate meaning through the ways we live with them. Now, Beverly 1975’s first London presentation makes that philosophy feel less like a paean to retail and more like an invitation to sit and stay awhile.

Photography by Kane Hulse

NY Times | 8 Design Products Inspired by Nature

The natural world has long shaped the human made, from the materials designers use to the forms they create. But today, climate change and related problems like the loss of biodiversity have added poignancy to products inspired by landscapes. Designers are paying tribute to ephemeral nature, looking for more sustainable methods to create interesting things and nodding to outdoor beauty in unexpected ways.

Azure | Sway Wallpaper Collection

Exploring the quiet rhythm of movement, the Sway collection from Calico is one of the newest collections from the Brooklyn-based design studio. Beautifully capturing the natural arc and suspension of branches in motion, the collection is painted with fluid strokes and layered washes. The stylized willow branches seem to be gently adrift in the wind, bending and responding to air and light.

With elongated and overlapping lines, the Sway collection from Calico expresses a sense of depth that is achieved without an overwhelming density, with tonal variations allowing the composition to breathe.

Architectural Digest: Artist Francesca DiMattio’s Exuberant New Designs for Calico Wallpaper

What if the domestic sphere were a little less staid, a little more fun-house? That’s the case in the world of artist Francesca DiMattio, where ceramic confections layer ornamental forms with those of everyday household effects. In one work, she might sculpt a child-size sneaker and a jug of milk within a deconstructed, Meissen-inspired vase; for another, she’ll combine the motifs of floral china and Moroccan rugs into a chandelier. “Rule-breaking is the point that excites me to begin anything,” says DiMattio, who has now channeled that gleefully uncontained logic into a new collection for Calico Wallpaper, previewing at Design Miami.
“If you walk into Francesca’s place in the city, she’s broken every convention,” confirms Calico cofounder Rachel Cope, referring to the Manhattan town house where DiMattio grew up. There, the artist has personalized every inch in riotous fashion, from a breakfast nook clad in blue-and-white ceramics to the bedroom’s porcelain flower–encrusted fireplace. “She has patterns on every surface, and they all fit so perfectly together.”
Lattice part of Francesca DiMattios collaboration with Calico Wallpaper sets a backdrop for her work.
Lattice, part of Francesca DiMattio’s collaboration with Calico Wallpaper, sets a backdrop for her work.
For the collaboration, DiMattio has translated some 70 feet of her original paintings (“absurd in the best way”) into two mural-style designs, each available in seven colorways. One pattern, titled Mosaic, is a trompe l’oeil scene featuring palm trees, flowers, and a peacock with heart-embellished tail feathers—a loose homage to her home’s hand-painted entryway by way of Pompeii. The second, Lattice, presents a constellation of fancy-dress plates—the sort that might line her dinner table—against a crosshatched ground. “I’m always thinking of ways to change how we meet the feminine,” DiMattio says, pointing out how the agitated brushstrokes feel closer to graffiti than the “sweet and polished” source material.
Photography by Em McCann Zauder

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Lee Broom’s theatrical sensibility means he often dreams up fantastical installations for his namesake brand’s expansive range of furniture and lighting, but it also lends itself well to the wall. Overture, the British designer’s first collection with Calico Wallpaper, harnesses his set design background to capture the drama of drapery in strikingly dimensional prints that transform flat surfaces into stage-like backdrops. “Growing up in the theatre, I became very aware of the power of presentation,” Broom recalls. “I was inspired by the imagination of set designers and their ability to enhance the emotion of the entire performance.” With names like Matinee and Recital, each of the seven colorways toy with light and shadow to evoke motion, illusion, and mood, and are printed on Calico’s signature PVC-free clay-coated paper.

Wallpaper*: Why are so many rooms covered in curtains?

The association between curtains and performance is one reason why the motif is so alluring. In May, the British designer Lee Broom released a new wall covering collection with Calico named Overture that has a trompe l’oeil drapery effect. Broom, who was an actor as a child, has long been fascinated by how set designers were able to use simple materials like fabric and light to transform the stage. According to the designer, the wall covering takes those who experience it on an imaginative journey. ‘Drapery has a natural theatricality to it,’ he says. ‘It’s expressive, fluid, and full of suggestion.’

Rachel Cope, Calico’s creative director and co-founder, appreciates the sense of anticipation the wall covering evokes. It ‘embodies a cinematic stillness – like a breath held just before a curtain rises,’ she says. This emotive quality helps animate rooms. ‘We’re seeing a strong desire for interiors that do more than decorate – they need to narrate, to ground to inspire,’ Cope adds.

California Home Design: Audition by Calico Wallpaper

 

This week at NYCxDesign Calico unveiled an artistic new wallcovering collection entitled ‘Overture’ with lighting and furniture designer Lee Broom that honors his theatrical roots including Audition, a handpainted mural of stage-like drapery.

 

Monocle: Design Agenda – Souvenir wallpaper

What to do with souvenirs from your travels? Do you actually use your teapot from Japan when you want a hot brew or display that vase from Murano on a shelf? For Stephen Burks and Malika Leiper, the duo leading US design practice Stephen Burks Man Made, the answer was to turn them into a decorative wall covering. Working with Calico Wallpaper, the duo transposed their knick-knacks from their cross-continental travels into a 2D wallpaper design that they called Particulaire.

“We started by looking around our home and asking ourselves, ‘What do we decorate the rooms with?’” says Burks. “The answer was objects from our travels. They tell a story both about us and the cultures that we have interacted with.”

Working with the wallpaper firm, which is based in Upstate New York, the creative duo used photographed renderings of their personal mementoes to create a graphic pattern that puts objects from across the globe into conversation while bringing plenty of personality to a room. “The gorilla image is from a young man who we met in Rwanda carving wooden figures. But we also took inspiration from Japan, Senegal, the Dominican Republic and even Brooklyn,” says Burks of the wallpaper. “Our travels are a way for us to get closer to acts of making that involve different techniques and materials,” adds Leiper.

Architectural Digest: Visiting the Calico Wallpaper Founders in Their Charming Upstate New York Abode

When visiting homes for sale in New York’s Hudson Valley, Rachel and Nick Cope, the married founders of the hit brand Calico Wallpaper, developed a code word to indicate, discreetly, that a house was the one—blueberry. It was the pandemic era and the then Brooklyn-based couple had set out to find their own slice of paradise, heeding the siren call of country living. An off-market listing in the town of Ghent promised to be just the refuge they were seeking for their young family. “It checked every box,” recalls Rachel, citing the property’s generous acreage, environmentally conscious construction, pond, and proximity to a like-minded school for their son and daughter. Blueberry.

The couple’s own designs have their place, of course, from the watercolor-like tableau that envelops the dining room to the gestural motifs of Nick’s office, which overlooks the backyard and nearby school. (“Even if the day is stressful he can see the kids playing,” says Rachel.) Still the couple exercised restraint in deploying Calico patterns, often turning to plaster finishes for walls. “They didn’t want it to feel like a showroom,” notes Stief.

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Lee Broom has always had a thing for drapery. As a child actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the British designer became enchanted with the set dressings. As a side hustle during his fashion-school years at Central Saint Martins he created moody, curtained environments for local bars and London raves. And as an intern for Vivienne Westwood, he observed how the late style icon studied the paintings of Anthony van Dyck to inform her cascading couture. “Things like that stick with me even now,” notes Broom, who eventually made the professional leap to product design when he established his firm in 2007. It all serves as the creative backbone to Overture, a collaboration with Calico Wallpaper that harnesses Trompe L’Oeil, a technique dating back to Roman and Greek empires, to create illusory, two-dimensional swags. “Up close you can see the brushstrokes,” Calico cofounder Rachel Cope explains of the pattern, first painted after physical models and then printed on paper. “Many layers of oil paint with glazing gives it this beautiful textured surface.” That impressionistic execution grounds the surreal motif, available in seven colorways. Each teems with passion, camp, and obsessive detail—all things we might expect from a theater kid. When asked if he still considers himself one, Broom laughs and replies, “Weirdly, no.” But those feelings all come back when he takes in an opera or play. When the curtain rises, he says, “I still get that rush of blood to the head.”

Designboom: Ronan Bouroullec and Vincent Van Duysen on making their Wonderglass installations in Milan

Ronan Bouroullec and Vincent Van Duysen craft a series of fused-glass installations for Wonderglass during Milan Design Week 2025. Titled Poetica, the exhibition at Istituto dei Ciechi runs between April 8th and 12th, displaying the recent works of the designers. The scenography is complemented by the wallpaper designs from Calico Wallpaper and a special contribution by Officine Saffi Lab.

 

Milan Design Week 2025: Particulaire

Calico Wallpaper is thrilled to unveil Particulaire, a bespoke mural created in collaboration with Stephen Burks Man Made, at the historic Istituto dei Ciechi in Milan. Inspired by objects gathered during Stephen’s travels, Particulaire bridges cultures and experiences, inviting viewers on a journey of global interconnectedness.

The pieces spotlighted within Particulaire tell stories that span continents, celebrating a shared narrative through art, craft, and community. Describing his pluralistic design method, Burks explains: “My aim is to develop projects that bridge the gap between authentic world production, industrial manufacturing, and contemporary design. I’ve had the honor of working with artisans all over the world. Throughout these travels, I collect everything—especially the design objects of my collaborators—and living with these pieces and traditions has ultimately inspired the curation and development of Particulaire.”

Wallpaper: Nick and Rachel Cope set up studio and home in Upstate New York

This October, widely revered boutique wall-coverings brand Calico launched the Alchemy and Enchantment collections: ethereal designs informed by the natural-dyed silks utilised in the puppet theatre of Janene Ping, the Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School teacher that recently taught founders Nick and Rachel Cope’s children. The duo—one of a handful of independent studios that defined the post 2008-recession New York design scene—moved to the Upper Hudson Valley region during the Covid-19 pandemic. Like many urban-transplants escaping the city, they came in search of a better quality of life. But unlike most that have since returned, the Copes stayed and it significantly impacted how they work.

‘I feel liberated to explore new ideas with more freedom, away from the frenetic energy of New York City,’ Rachel Cope explains. ‘Being upstate has allowed us to establish a studio space that accommodates larger-scale projects, incorporating nature-based materials and processes that weren’t feasible before. This slower, more grounded pace has influenced the evolution of our practice, bringing a sense of mindfulness and intentionality into each piece and fostering a connection to more organic themes.’

Galerie: The Artful Life

It’s difficult to imagine creative terrain that Calico Wallpaper hasn’t traversed in the Brooklyn studio’s decade-plus history, which has seen husband-and-wife founders Nick and Rachel Cope practically elevate the medium into fine art thanks to their embrace of glowing gradients and marbleized prints. Lately the duo has been mining the infinite expanse of the galaxies for inspiration, which they translated into the dazzling Supernova collection realized alongside Manhattan interiors firm Studio DB.

Infused with cosmic intrigue and atmospheric texture, the eight-piece collection depicts star patterns that infuse interiors with a healthy dose of cosmic wonder while providing a personal portal into the great beyond. “This collection sparkles and unveils the fantastical universe we’ve imagined, deeply connected to the history of astrology but also the artistry of those who have reinterpreted it before us,” says Britt Zunino, who co-founded Studio DB with her husband, Damian. They went on to install it on the ceiling of their personal library—an ideal place to be transported into another universe.

Hospitality Design: Lindsey Adelman and Calico Wallpaper Join Forces Once Again

Soon after Rachel Cope befriended New York lighting designer and artist Lindsey Adelman, the cofounder and creative director of Calico Wallpaper was struck by Adelman’s passion for fine art and nature. “She was painting watercolors of flowers, and I found them to be unique and beautiful,” recalls Cope.

The enchanting motifs aligned with the Calico aesthetic, and Cope sent Adelman a message with her idea to turn them into wallcoverings. The timing was fortuitous. Visiting Belle-Île, an island off the coast of Brittany, France, Adelman was surrounded by inspiring foliage that spawned Eden, her mural-style collection for Calico that launched in 2020.

Amid the rugged landscape, Adelman and a friend explored mediums outside their main practices. “It was only one week but seemed like such a radical and rebellious move to commit to work with different intentions,” she says. “We felt so connected to the land and went foraging for plant material each morning. I ended up painting what I found.”

Ultimately, Calico collaged those paintings into botanical portraits and then digitally printed the images, showcasing grounding, hand-applied metallic accents that lend the wallcoverings an organic sheen. Whether it’s a light sculpture like the handblown Branching Bubble chandelier that put her on the map or an experimental painting, “I tend to follow a craving or yearning and then begin to make shapes to understand what is drawing me in,” Adelman explains.

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Just weeks ago I ventured upstate to visit Rachel Cope of Calico Wallpaper at her new studio in New York’s Hudson Valley, where the artist dreams up bespoke collections for the coveted wallpaper company. On display was Ensemble, a series inspired by creativity and the boundless imagination (a.k.a. our inner child).

Pulled directly from Rachel’s own artwork, which was scanned and enlarged in dramatic scale, it features massive brushstrokes in unexpected tones, full of visible texture for a mural-style effect that we continue to see in the latest wallpaper trends. Sure to make a statement, the print isn’t for those who simply dabble in pattern — the stylish strokes are oversized and expressive as if a gentle giant painted your walls with an enormous paintbrush. How’s that for using your imagination?

DESIGN MILK: Calico Wallpaper Makes Gold With Alchemy and Enchantment

Since 2013, Calico Wallpaper has presented the finest, most immersive wall murals on the market. Their new collection is in collaboration with Kindergarten teacher and Early Childhood Educator Janene Ping. Ping, who maintains a prolific natural dyeing practice, aims to highlight the balance and beauty of nature. Teaching at the Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School for thirty years has given her the insight and sensitivity needed to foster a love for the great outdoors in our little ones. This collaboration features two distinct collections, Alchemy and Enchantment.

The Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School is committed to providing children with the tools they need to become aware citizens. During their time, they grow a personal relationship with the natural world, and learn to become an active participant in their local economy. Handcraft and artistry is paramount, essential for humans to truly connect with the earth. Ping, a natural dyer extraordinaire, creates fantastic silk tapestries for The Magical Puppet Tree Theater – which she founded in 1992. Through this joyful medium, she uplifts a collection of fanciful stories often untold.

AD: AN EXTRAORDINARY MUMBAI DUPLEX

Built for a multi-generational family, this Mumbai duplex exudes an overarching sense of warmth, luxury, and tranquillity.

Among the myriad unique aspects that make this two-storey Mumbai duplex extraordinary, it is the enchanting views that truly set it apart. The light dances through the space with a cinematic quality, changing throughout the day and casting a spell that interior designer and project lead Jannat Vasi beautifully harmonised within design. Every hue and shade is a deliberate echo of the natural beauty outside, embracing a palette that is both sophisticated and restrained.

“The vision of bringing the ocean indoors is realised through thoughtful design choices that mirror the natural surroundings, creating a tranquil and timeless living environment. Inspired by the ocean, we’ve infused the space with blues, soft waves, and textures reminiscent of coral reefs. Metals mimic the sun’s reflection, adding a dynamic touch to the serene ambiance. The incredible wall mural by Calico Wallpaper which captures light in a mesmerising way, pays homage to the spectacular sunsets this home enjoys,” explains the founder of Jannat Vasi Interior Design.

Photography by Ishita Sitwala

SURFACE: Jean Pelle Journeys Back Into South Korea’s Vivid Landscapes

Jean Pelle recalls wandering through fruit farms and wet rice fields with hilly forests during her upbringing in a small South Korean town. “My father would bring his camera on our long walks,” she says, “and make my brothers and I pose in the tall grasses or thickets of the pine trees.” These vivid memories stayed with her, even decades after immigrating to the U.S. and launching the Brooklyn lighting and furniture design studio Pelle with her husband, Oliver. Now, thanks to a collaboration with her close friends and neighbors, the wall coverings mainstay Calico Wallpaper, she’s translating her father’s old photographs into an entirely new medium.

The collection, appropriately called Memoir, recalls the lush landscapes embedded in Pelle’s memory. Each of the six patterns represent scenes from her childhood, from the rich textures of tall pink-and-white cosmos flower beds to swaying grassy hills and dense pine forests. They were developed from drawings she made using oil pastels—a medium she gravitated to as a child. “I’m thrilled that together with Calico Wallpaper, we can bring these vivid memories and snapshots of the South Korean landscape to life,” she says. “It’s a large-scale representation of the albums my father put together of rich textures and memories of my first home.”

Archiproducts: A Nostalgic Journey: Recapturing Childhood Through Wallpaper

Enter a world where the past whispers on the walls. Calico Wallpaper presents its latest collection, Memoir, a collaboration with Jean Pelle, co-founder of the renowned PELLE design studio. This bespoke journey goes beyond mere aesthetics; it’s a poignant tapestry woven from childhood memories. Memoir invites us to experience the South Korean landscape through Jean Pelle’s lens, a landscape forever etched in her heart.

DWELL: The Best of Milan’s Surreal Exhibition of New Designers

Alcova, the massive show dedicated to emerging design talent, is always something of a scavenger hunt. Founder/curators Valentina Ciuffi and Joseph Grima always stage the six-year-old exhibition, which made its stateside debut in Miami last year, in unusual and impressive locations, filling them with objects by dozens of emerging designers. It’s a lot of new work to take in, but your reward is finding a few gems by designers you didn’t know.

In recent years, Alcova has anchored the work by emerging designers with installations by established studios, including this monolithic piece by New Yorkers Colin King and Calico Wallpaper.

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Calico Wallpaper: Nuance and Perception by Colin King

 

As one of today’s most in-demand interior stylists, Colin King has carved a fruitful career from harnessing the power of empty space between quotidian objects. He’s also proving his chops as a product designer, this time with two introductions for Brooklyn’s go-to wall covering studio Calico Wallpaper. Perception’s muted palette channels the weathered patina of past eras while a subtle horizon line allows Nuance to waltz between texture and hue in order to ruminate on neglect. “I’ve always been captivated by the beauty of patina, the transformation that unfolds as objects age and decay,” King says. “It’s as if objects reveal their inner truth.”

NYT: 13 Different Options for Wallpaper, Tile and Upholstery

What’s new in wallpaper, tile and upholstery? Nothing and everything.

Tribute continues to be paid to the past — from Victorian nests of excess to disciplined Scandinavian lines and palettes. Our eyes continue to be dazzled by optical tricks, such as trompe l’oeil patterns that collapse dimensions. Couture still refuses to remain in the closet: If pearls complete the little black dress, think of what they could do for your living room walls. And more than ever, concerns about sustainability and health drive the development of the materials that surround us.

Elle Decor: For These NY Filmmakers, a New Headquarters Gleams as Brightly as Their Oscar Statuettes

While watching the new Netflix film Nyad, which chronicles long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad’s 2013 attempt to swim 110 miles from Cuba to Florida, designer Britt Zunino spotted her client. Not Annette Bening, the film’s Oscar-nominated star, but rather its directors, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. The giveaway? The neon pink title credits. “I could see [Vasarhelyi’s] hand,” Britt says.

Zunino is, at this point, something of an expert on Vasarhelyi and Chin’s tastes. She and her husband, Damian, principals of the architecture and interiors firm Studio DB, designed the couple’s New York City residence and have known them socially for years.

As Vasarhelyi and Chin’s production studio, Little Monster Films, continued to grow and garnish accolades (among them, the Academy Award–winning documentary Free Solo), the need for a new headquarters became pressing. “We had been in the same space for 22 years, and finally it just didn’t make sense anymore,” says Vasarhelyi.

The pair purchased a more central office space in Lower Manhattan (an easier commute for younger staffers living in Brooklyn) and briefed Studio DB on their myriad needs: a large screening space, soundproof editing suites, and communal areas that could encourage collaboration. On top of all that, the project had to combine Vasarhelyi and Chin’s disparate tastes in decorating: she’s a maximalist; he’s an avowed minimalist. “I wanted a playful space where the talent we work with would feel cherished and appreciated, because we’re lucky to do the work that we do,” says Vasarhelyi.

The 7,000-square foot space marries both filmmakers’ aesthetic proclivities and ties them up in a sophisticated bow. As soon as you step inside the wood-clad entry hall (the panels elegantly mask equipment and storage), you are greeted by a custom-built banquette, whose gold wallpaper backdrop conjures the sheen of an Oscar statuette. Glass-paneled pocket doors allow light from the exterior rooms into the central spaces, while furnishings have a more residential feel. Corridors are lined with posters and ephemera from the studio’s projects, while other upcycled materials—like repurposed stone tabletops and seating upholstered in unused fabric remnants from the couple’s apartment—also make an appearance.

The office’s pièce de résistance is the screening room, a luxury to have in-house, made all the more so by Studio DB’s incorporation of vintage Carlo Scarpa theater chairs (sourced at auction from Rome), some of which are upholstered in a House of Hackney floral with lumbar pillows in a Dedar fabric. “Projects like this are really fun for us, because we get to learn something new,” says Zunino.

“I feel really lucky to have found creative partners in a different genre,” Vasarhelyi adds.

Featured collection: Wanderlust in colorway in Haven and Eden in Mulberry.

SixtySix: From Milan to Miami, a 1950s Motel Gets Reimagined as a Global Design Gallery

In the height of the great-American-road-trip era, Miami’s Biscayne Boulevard became the epicenter of motor courts and motels. One of those was the Gold Dust Motel, designed by Maurice S. Weintraub and described as “an interpretation of Subtropical Modernism” by the Miami Herald when it opened in 1957.

The boulevard is now packed with operators aiming to leverage America’s neon-clad, pink Cadillac history into modern-day customers looking for an alternative to the glossy globalization of South Beach.  Surprisingly, one of those operators now includes two Italian design curators, Valentina Ciuffi (Studio Vedèt) and Joseph Grima (Space Caviar) who for the first time have brought their wildly popular Alcova exhibition from Milan to Miami.

“Our core mission remains unchanged: to transform unique spaces into immersive platforms for groundbreaking design,” the founders said in a release. Alcova Miami 2023’s lineup includes design institutions, established brands, and emerging studios each contributing to the ever-expanding language of contemporary design.

The first international edition of Alcova presents over 300 participants from six continents. Here are a few of the displays not to be missed.

Jialun Xiong joins Alcova’s interiors-focused offerings with two new light fixtures inspired by the night sky, Void Wall Sconce and Stellar Ceiling Lamps, alongside the LA designer’s other furnishings. The display is inspired by the inexplicable, vast silence of the galaxy and our perceived place among the floating stars and planets—or in this case, among black and white gradient light fixtures that seem to hover.

“When you don’t have colors or other distractions, you see everything else that goes into making a product. There’s more room for texture and material to shine … The exhibition space is also an expansion of the pieces themselves. I want people to lower their voices and be curious about what’s happening, let them question why it’s so dark,” Jialun says.

Jialun leaves room for viewers’ emotions to determine how they experience her works against a dark backdrop. Calico Wallpaper’s Aurora Collection in the Eclipse colorway covers the walls.

Jialun Xiong’s Before the Eclipse is her debut solo exhibition. Photo by Paul Barbera

 

Featured Collection: Aurora in Colorway Eclipse

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Photography by Paul Barbera

AD: 10 Enticing Entrance Hall Ideas by AD PRO Directory Designers

While keeping the stunning original architectural details intact, Los Angeles designer Georgia Tapert Howe infused a prewar apartment on New York’s Upper East Side with a decidedly contemporary vibe, beginning with the foyer reminiscent of a boutique hotel lobby. “This particular entry was quite big and the rest of the apartment flows from it, so we wanted it to be a taste of what’s to come throughout,” recalls Tapert Howe. “We also wanted it to feel as light as possible, which was a challenge with no windows.” The solution? Anchoring the space with a three-legged Moving Mountains table and adding a pair of chic benches and swaths of abstract floral wallpaper from Calico.

 

 

Featured Collection: Eden in custom colorway

Photography by: Nick Johnson

AD: Inside One Family’s Chic Brutalist-Style Tribeca Triplex

For New York–based interior designer Jae Joo of Jae Joo Designs, two first-time homeowners who had never worked with a decorator before proved to be a perfect professional pairing. The resulting project she did for them was “the most fun and dynamic New York City town house I’ve worked on,” as she puts it.

Joo owes that fact partly to the singular space, though the new-build with 500-plus square feet of private outdoor space had sat empty for two years before her clients found it and recognized its potential. The couple correctly believed the rare find with Brutalist leanings could, in the right hands, become an elegantly minimalist yet cozily tactile family home.

“We would get lunch [with the girls] and talk about their bedrooms,” says Joo of the clients’ daughters having input in their personal spaces. Both chose touches of iridescence, here in the form of gilded Calico Wallpaper. Her reading nook includes an RH bed that sits atop a vintage Turkish rug.

Featured collection: inverted Spaces in colorway in Corona.

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Photography by William Jess Laird

 

Sight Unseen: Cody Hoyt Presents Tesserae in Bloom at The Future Perfect

Tesserae in Bloom, the mesmerizing show by artist Cody Hoyt at The Future Perfect in New York, is named for the tiles used to form mosaics and the exhibition really does seem to bloom and unfurl and draw you in deeper. These works – ceramic vessels, a console, stools, a table, a chair, and a wall piece – play with perspective, perception, and dimensionality through form, compression, pattern, and layering. As does the backdrop for these 3D objects: a plane of botanical wallpaper that Hoyt, who has a background in printmaking, designed in collaboration with Calico. On view through the end of this year. (More on that project coming soon.)

 

Photos by Joe Kramm

Article by by Deborah Shapiro

Galerie Magazine: Calico Wallpaper Introduces Collaboration with Artist Cody Hoyt

The Artful Life: 5 Things Galerie Editors Love This Week

From artist Michele Oka Doner’s delightful new book to a lively collaboration between Calico Wallpaper and Cody Hoyt

 

Brooklyn artist Cody Hoyt, a longtime painter and printmaker who recently switched his primary medium to ceramics, is having a moment. Not only are his geometric-patterned clay works the subject of a new solo show, “Tesserae in Bloom,” at the Future Perfect in Manhattan, but he’s also debuting a lively collaboration with Calico Wallpaper, dubbed Botanica. Inspired by the Japanese art of Nerikomi, which involves stacking and cutting pieces of clay, Hoyt has conjured a mural-esque motif that recalls pressed flowers, with abstracted petals rendered in dreamy hues floating throughout the design, which is available in eight colorways. “Flowers feel like a combination of figuration and abstraction,” he says. “They become interchangeable. It’s natural to read some abstract patterns as florets. It’s natural to see flowers as a pattern.”

 

 

Wallpaper Magazine: Residenza Cappellini combines bold colour and Italian design in Manhattan

Swooping into an apartment in a Financial District high-rise in Manhattan is a new interior showcase designed by Frenchcalifornia and Giulio Cappellini, creating a residence full of colour and design which is, quite simply, an artistic haven.

The penthouse suite, Residenza Cappellini, sees European living meet East Coast urban style, balanced in perfect harmony, much like the close partnership and collaboration between its creators: Guillaume Coutheillas, founder of interior design and branding studio Frenchcalifornia; and Cappellini, founder and art director of the eponymous Italian furniture company, whose guest editorship of Wallpaper’s October 2023 issue included his vision of tomorrow’s interiors.

Inside the residence, a backdrop of curved windows and a neutral foundational colour palette is offset with splashes of colour from an array of furnishings from across the decades, with Cappellini’s pieces taking centre stage. The interiors find balance with the building’s New York roots, including fine art provided by Salomon Art Gallery, located in Tribeca, and bespoke wall coverings from the Colorwash and Lyric Doric collections by Calico Wallpaper in Brooklyn.

 

Article by TIANNA WILLIAMS

Photography by Federica Carlet

Interiors by Frenchcalifornia

AD Italia: A warm apartment among the skyscrapers of New York

Like a postcard of New York , here we are in Midtown Manhattan, inside a newly built building with a spectacular view of Central Park . A real taste of this spectacular metropolis, made up of elegant architectural details, such as this skyscraper, completed in 2022, which rises to a total of 98 floors and on the top floor there is a restaurant that literally touches the sky

A soft interior, with neutral colours, made possible thanks to the work of the Bonesteel Trout Hall studio , «all the furniture was designed by our studio or by furniture manufacturers with whom we often collaborate. We try to be selective in our choices to respect the needs of the client and the architecture in which we fit. In this space we knew that focusing on these details and the scenic urban landscape would be essential. Our aesthetic is very tailored, layered with texture and beautiful handcrafted materials. We rely on artists and manufacturers to help improve our design choices and the daily experience of our customers”, say designers Michele Trout and Heidi Bonesteel.

 

Wall covering: Calico Atmosphere Collection.

Photography by: Jeff Holt

NYC&G: Spring Style

SPRING STYLE…Contains the finest editorial stories. Captivating articles about homes in New York and the Hamptons that contain the finest furnishings, art work, antiques. Nestled in gardens of unparalleled beauty. Read about real estate and homes in your area. Learn how designers work, inform, and inspire readers with original articles, spectacular homes and gardens, architecture, art, as well as insider takes on local real estate comings and goings and other entertaining and lifestyle pursuits. Designed to emphasize superior journalism and lush photography. The magazines meet the highest standards of global excellence while distinctly capturing a local “sense of place”.

 

Featured Collection: Singing Sands in colorway Canyon