With the help of emerging firm Foss Hildreth, the in-demand ceramicist unveils an expanded production facility and showroom for her burgeoning Los Angeles studio that’s outfitted with slick ‘70s Italian furnishings and sentimental objects from her favorite local makers.

BY RYAN WADDOUPS

Photography by Laure Joliet

Calico Wallpaper debuted a dreamy collection of ombré wallcoverings called Colorwash. Inspired by the gradient colors of the sky on a cloudy day, the wallpaper comes in eight soothing colorways, ranging from a sunny golden yellow named Arise to the earthy dusk-colored Transcend.

The veteran design studio Meyer Davis unveils two collaborations with Stellar Works and Calico Wallpaper this week. Launched together under Meyer Davis’ product label William Gray, the new offerings include a pair of bespoke wallcoverings – the botanically inspired ‘Wilds’ design and the more collage-driven ‘Ephemera’ pattern – that are displayed alongside pieces from the brand’s existing furniture collection with Stellar Works. Transforming Stellar Works’ New York showroom into an evocative living room setting, the warm and eclectic display is hospitality at its best.

At first glance, Rachel and Nicholas Cope’s New York home—with its stately front porch, tidy lawn, and statuesque dogwood tree—has all the hallmarks of an idyllic suburban retreat. But the six-bedroom residence isn’t located in a Hudson Valley hamlet or nestled in the bucolic wilds of the Catskills. Instead, it’s situated on a quiet street in Brooklyn, just five minutes from Prospect Park and a short subway ride from Manhattan.

The Copes, who purchased the house in 2019, had previously been living in a loft above a grocery store in Red Hook. The industrial enclave by the Brooklyn waterfront is where they first hatched their business, Calico Wallpaper, which turns out fashionably bespoke wallcoverings in an extensive array of patterns that range from the whimsical to the otherworldly.

Seeking to give back during the pandemic, the Brooklyn wallpaper studio invites four global designers to reimagine their signature Aurora collection with proceeds going to charities of each collaborator’s choice.

Brooklyn studios, Workstead and Calico Wallpaper teamed up to create this installation inside New York’s Arcade Bakery, which was also designed by Workstead. The abstract Relic wallpaper was used to decorate the bakery’s cosy alcoves and features a mixture of sheer tissue paper and metallic and matte elements.

Contrasted against the bakery’s marble floors and wooden panelling, the wallpaper adds a sunny splash of colour that is still in keeping with the historic 1929 building.

For this wallpaper (Duet), Calico co-founder Rachel Cope gave her 6-year-old daughter a few oil crayons and invited her to scribble on the wall. After Willow was finished, Rachel filled in the gaps to make the final abstract — and satisfyingly unruly — motif.

If you’re looking for a way to refresh your home this spring and want to create a calm, relaxed refuge, Brooklyn-based company Calico Wallpaper creates atmospheric wall murals that envelop a room in luminous washes of color based on nature.

The custom fit, nonrepeating wall murals evoke sunrise, sunset and subtle landscapes wrapped in fog or water that turn a room into a serene, immersive environment.

Our sister company Cope’s Palm repeating wallpaper in the colorway Monsoon is wrapping around the phonebooths of this space as shown above.

Our Overgrow collection, made in collaboration with Charlap Hyman and Herrero, in the colorway Alice wraps the entire room and ceiling and includes custom drapes that continue the pattern.

Set within Beijing’s ancient Baofang Hutong, House of Wang is a new retail concept offering the best international design in a historical setting.

Initially launched as a digital platform soon followed by a physical store, House of Wang follows the unprecedented growth of the luxury design market in China. With the aim of bringing together a diverse range of creative influences, founders Ruby Ren and Eric Wang focused on selecting the best contemporary brands and designers ranging from Apparatus and 1882 Ltd to Nada Debs and Calico Wallpaper…

Calico Wallpaper’s Woodlands Fields Moors Collection in the colorway Woodlands is featured as an accent wall and shown in the imagery above.

Designers: Rachel and Willow Cope of Calico Wallpaper

Product: Reverie Collection

Made in: Brooklyn, New York

Standout: The studio co-founder (with husband Nick) collaborates with their five-year-old daughter, the result an expressionistic layering of abstract color fields.

2. Charlap Hyman & Herrero’s Overgrow Type II PVC-free non-repeating custom wall covering in Alice by Calico Wallpaper

The Overgrow Collection in the colorway Alice is featured in this article.

The Eden Collection in the colorway Mulberry is featured in Fuera de Serie’s December 2020 print issue.

If you’re like most people, you stare at your computer or tech devices more hours than not throughout the day, so why not make it something cool to see? Each month we enlist artists, designers, and companies to create cool desktop wallpapers with beautiful patterns and quotes that you can download for free to use on desktops and mobile devices… January 2020 by Calico Wallpaper in collaboration with artist and sculptor Fernando Mastrangelo featuring a quote by Georgia O’Keefe

Calico Wallpaper’s collaboration with Fernando Mastrangelo – the Escape Collection – in the colorway Muir was featured with a Georgia O’Keefe quote as a desktop background for Design Milk this year.

Chifa’s been open less than one week but its collabs are already extending beyond the Nünchi dessert. Humberto can’t reveal too much about future collabs, but the custom striped wallpaper – made with Calico Wallpaper – will be available for sale sometime this month, and in seven new colorways in January.

The Heartwood Collection in a custom colorway, shown above installed in Chifa.

The embrace of color, which won’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with Humberto’s work in the fashion space, comes from a Cantonese phrase his mother would use when he was growing up. “It translates as ‘Wear this color, it will steal people’s eyes,'” he said. “I’ve always kept that in mind, and I think it’s why a lot of my work is about color.”

And the 500-square-foot, 48-seat dining room of Chifa is overflowing with eye-stealing color…A mint-colored terrazzo floor is inlaid with eight Valentine-worthy pink hearts and the walls are papered in a green and black pattern that’s part zebra stripe and part wood grain.

“It’s called Heartwood,” Humberto said of the wallpaper pattern. “It’s a collaboration with Caclico Wallpaper, and people can actually buy it.”

The Heartwood Collection, made in collaboration with Humberto Leon, is shown above installed wrapped around Chifa in a custom colorway.

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Dress Things Up with Metallics

Use a contemporary wallpaper with a metallic sheen for a dreamy, ethereal feel. In this nursery designed by White Arrow, the abstract Calico Wallpaper will still add some beauty and style no matter how the space is used in the future.

Inverted Spaces Collections in the colorway Orion is shown above.

Hospitality Design’s Marketplace Fall 2020 print magazine featured Calico Wallpaper’s Paradiso Collection from our collaboration with Swarovski for their Design Miami/ 2019 Booth.

Our Eden Collection in the colorway Hyacinth, designed by Lindsey Adelman, is featured in this list of U.S.-made window systems, shades, and wallpaper to “improve your view” by Dwell.

400 W. Huron St., No. 1101, Chicago: $3,150,000 Listed: Sept. 15, 2020

This two-bedroom condominium in a River North high-rise has 2 1/2 bathrooms and features an open living area spanning the length of the home’s 368-square-foot terrace. Along with sweeping city views, the home touts pathway lighting, black slate flooring and a surround sound system throughout the home.

Pictured above is our Microcosmos Collection in the colorway Drift as the accented wall in the Primary bedroom. 

Calico Wallpaper’s Flora Collection in the colorway Wildflower in the master bedroom (3rd & 7th images),  Aurora Collection in the colorway Ray in one bedroom (5th image) and the colorway Petal in another bedroom (6th image).

Photography by Hanna Grankvist and Nicholas Cope

10. Erosions by Calico Wallpaper

Multimedia artist and Snarkitecture cofounder Daniel Arsham’s first foray into the genre arrives in the form of a trompe l’oeil design that seems to burst through the wall.

Standouts: The nonrepeating custom mural in a selenite colorway is LEED certified, using Type II PVC and POA

The Erosions Collection in the colorway Selenite is featured in the image above