Our Topographies Collection in the colorway Glacier is featured in the October 2020 issue of Eigen Huis & Interieur (Netherlands) in the Beeld bepalers section.

For its newest launch, Brooklyn-based Calico Wallpaper collaborated with an unexpected up-and-coming artist: 5-year-old Willow Cope. A true joint effort, the collection (titled Reverie) evolved from drawings and paintings Willow made—to which her mom, Rachel Cope, cofounder and creative director at Calico, layered on her own designs to add texture and depth. Originally the pieces were slated to be part of an exhibition, but when that fell through due to the pandemic, Cope reimagined the works in progress as wallpaper in a range of hues, from icy sky blues to ethereal pinks…

The Eden Collection in the colorway Ginger is shown above featured in Elle Decor’s September 2020 print issue.

Our Eden Collection in the colorway Mulberry is featured in Luxe Magazine’s September 2020 issue under Earthly Pursuits: Life in the Studio: Inspirations and lessons on Creativity by Frances Palmer.

Visually exploding from the wall is Erosions, a new collection for Calico Wallpaper that builds off of Arsham’s large-scale murals displayed at Perrotin gallery in 2018. The vast trompe l’oeil design captures a multifaceted cluster of crystals bursting through the plaster surface of na otherwise nondescript wall.

The original design is informed by a series of selenite works Arsham created that capture his “dystopian vision of the future,” where culture is eroded and teh objects that define our modern life are rendered irrelevant. “Artistic process is at the heart of Calico Wallpaper, and we’re excited to bring the result of an ongoing collaboration with Daniel Arsham to a wide audience,” Nick Cope, cofounder of Calico Wallpaper, said in a statement.

Erosions in the colorway Selenite is featured above.

The designers have installed a dramatic, crawling landscape of vines in the Gobelin Room at Austria’s Schloss Hollenegg for Design.

It isn’t every day that a designer gets the chance to create a permanent installation in a 12th-century castle. So when architecture studio Charlap Hyman & Herrero (CH&H) was invited to take part in a residency at Austria’s Schloss Hollenegg for Design, founders Adam Charlap Hyman and Andre Herrero jumped at the opportunity.

Every year, Alice Stori Liechtenstein –whose family has owned the property since 1821 — pairs designers and manufacturers to participate in an annual exhibition. This year she brought together CH&H and Brooklyn’s Calico Wallpaper, which is how the designers found themselves standing in the palace, decorating the walls and ceilings of its Gobelin Tapestry Room. Overgrow, a non-repeating wallpaper, was inspired by the lush greenery that creeps up the castle’s walls and spills down from trellises over covered walkways. Charlap Hyman describes the medieval structure as wild and organic. “When we were getting our tour on the first day, Alice kept having to break through vines that had overtaken shutters to open the windows,” he explains. “It really left an impression.”

The Overgrow Collection in the colorway Alice is shown above, and is featured in Schloss Hollenegg’s Gobelin Room.

Daniel Arsham has partnered with Calico Wallpaper to bring his Erosion artwork to the masses. The result is a 3D-effect wallpaper that can be pasted in your home, adding Arsham’s touch to your walls.

The Erosion print is available in its original Perrotin Gallery-exhibited colorway of “Selenite.” A trompe l’oeil design depicts crystals and plaster in a 3D-effect, printed to look as if the crystals are coming out of the wall and that there is a deep cavern in your walls.

Arsham’s dystopian eroded work for your home was created with a high-tech scanning process that captured – in minute detail – the images of crystal and plaster. Other colors including “Volcanic Ash” and “Pyrite,” “Blue Calcite,” and “Rose Quartz” are also set to release soon.

Take a closer look at Daniel Arsham x Calico Wallpaper Erosion print in “Selenite” above, and order your sample from Calico Wallpaper’s website now.

Calico Wallpaper’s collaboration with lighting designer Lindsey Adelman culminated in the production of the Eden Collection. A behind-the-scenes look at the process behind the collection was shown in this Wall Street Journal piece featured in the June/July 2020 issue of the printed magazine.

The Eden Collection in the colorway Mulberry is featured on the bottom of the 2nd page of the article.

Following his collaboration with UNIQLO UT and Pokemon earlier this year, Daniel Arhsam is now tapping into the world of interior design with Brooklyn-based Calico Wallpaper. Through the partnership, the artist’s signature eroded motif can now be brought home in the form of a wallpaper.

Dubbed “Erosions,” the collection was initially created as a large-scale wall mural for an exhibition at New York’s Perrotin Gallery back in 2018. The wallpaper features a trompe l’oeil motif that shows the illusion of fragments of crystal peeping through the wall, giving a three-dimensional effect overall. The pattern was originally developed through Arhsam’s series of large selenite art pieces that represents the creative’s dystopian view of the future…

The Erosions Collection in the colorway Selenite is featured in the article

Product Launches

Lindsey Adelman Designs a Mural-Style Wallpaper

The product, which is titled Eden, shows off a different side of the lighting designer’s capabilities. It’s come to fruition thanks to a collaboration with Calico Wallpaper, with whom Adelman first partnered in 2018. “Collaborating with Lindsey on this project was a delight,” Calico Wallpaper’s Rachel Cope comments to AD PRO. “We have a similar approach to the creative process in that we see beauty in imperfection. Eden celebrates that-it has an organic quality, like it’s handmade.”

The Eden Collection in the colorway Mulberry is shown above

Calico Wallpaper has debuted ‘Eden’ a new wallpaper collection designed by Lindsey Adelman. The collection draws inspiration from watercolors that Lindsey created during a self-imposed artist residency on Belle-Ile, an island off the coast of Brittany, France.

Cut off from the rest of the world, Adelman was inspired by the island’s natural beauty and her daily foraging walks to create something new, outside of her normal practices and without the confines of a schedule. The result was a series of small watercolor paintings, based on collections of plants, flowers, and seeds, which were translated into this new wallpaper collection.

In collaboration with Adelman, the Calico Wallpaper team spent weeks collaging the paintings into a composition of nearly 100 plant portraits before digitally printing the images. The printing process incorporated the use of hand-applied meta leaf, creating a unique ground of natural pressed metals that gives an organic variation to the mural-style wallpaper.

“I couldn’t be more thrilled to be collaborating with Calico Wallpaper to transform these designs into wallpaper,” Adelman commented. “It has been a labor of love. I’m especially pleased with the addition of metal leaf, which elevates everything. I hope a bit of the feeling I had making it comes through when people see it.”

The collection is available in seven colorways, including gold, silver, and a reprise of Lindsey’s original watercolor palette.

The Eden Collection in the colorway Mulberry is shown above

NYCxDesign: The Round Up from Calico Wallpaper on Vimeo.

Foliate or floral, there’s nothing that brings summer into an interior more surely than a botanical print. Plant-based patterns are appearing on some of the bestselling bedding collections of spring/summer 2020, and botanical illustrations have inspired wallcoverings, fabrics and even bathroom furniture…

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

Something wonderful and fairy tale-like happens to buildings after a few centuries: They become covered in vines. Take Schloss Hollenegg, a 12th-century castle located in the east Austrian hills, where the greenery spills down the facade from covered walkways three stories high. The verdant display is the product of hundreds of years, but you don’t have to wait to recreate it inside your own home. Brooklyn-based company Calico Wallpaper and design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero captured the lush vines in the form of wallpaper, debuting the collection, dubbed Overgrow, this May inside one of Schloss Hollenegg’s wood-paneled rooms…

The Overgrow Collection in the colorway Alice is currently installed at Schloss Hollenegg (shown above)

LAUNCHES, COLLABORATIONS & PARTNERSHIPS

Calico Wallpaper has launched a new mural-style wallpaper featuring the designs of Lindsey Adelman, best known for her bespoke lighting fixtures. The Eden collection showcases Adelman’s lesser-known design side, inspired by a series of small watercolor paintings of plants, flower, and seeds.

The Eden Collection in the colorway Nectar is shown above

Picture yourself stepping into an aging English manor house — or perhaps even a crumbling medieval castle. A cracked pane of glass or gaping window frame lets a creeping vine run wild within the parlor. It’s dreamy, romantic, and like something out of a storybook or the setting of where the love interest proclaims his undying devotion to a Jane Austen leading lady. Now, it can be your bedroom, living room, or library thanks to a collective wallpaper from Calico and design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero.

Called “Overgrow,” this “lush and verdant” pattern, as it’s described on Calico’s website, is a watercolor-like vine motif” adorned with a variety of insect life.” It starts dense at the top, and shoots into fingers of foliage that reach for the baseboards.

“Overgrow” reads more like a hand painted mural than sheets of wallpaper, meaning it will add a taste of homeyness to the space you’re working with. The design was specifically created for the Gobelin Room at the 12th-century castle Schloss Hollenegg in Austria.

“The designers distort the distinction between the decorated interior and the wilderness beyond, while referencing the presence of historical landscape wallpaper throughout the castle,” the wallpaper’s story reads on Calico’s site. “Installed amongst the furnishings of a stately bedroom and large tapestries from the 17th century, the mural teeters between a romantic suggestion of man’s poetic relationship with nature and an ominous reminder that all buildings will become ruins eventually, overtaken by the untamable.”

The Overgrow Collection in the colorway Franz is shown above

The Overgrow Collection in the colorway Alice is shown above in Corriere Della Sera Living Magazine’s June 2020 print issue.

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…This month, Calico Wallpaper launches Eden, a mural-style design strewn with Adelman’s loose, branching botanicals printed on hand-leafed metallic grounds. (There are seven color options, including gold and silver.) Like all of the company’s offerings, Eden is meant to cover a wall without repeating; the team spent weeks collaging nearly 100 of Adelman’s paintings, capturing naturalistic clumps and voids in the process…

The Eden Collection in the colorway Mulberry is shown above.

Ravaged Beauty for Your Home

A new wall covering creates an instant look of disaster.

Shuttered businesses, job losses and relationships under duress — the world may seem to be falling apart as a result of the coronavirus. Turns out there’s a wallpaper for that.

The artist Daniel Arsham, a co-founder of the design studio Snarkitecture, has collaborated with Calico Wallpaper on a trompe l’oeil wall covering that will make a room look like its crumbling away.

“Erosions” is based on a mural Mr. Arsham and Calico created for a gallery show in 2018. To achieve it, the artist made castings of eroded surfaces; then the company used a scanning process to digitize the works. Gallery goers loved the one-off piece, and now Calico is printing the design on clay-coated paper for use in residences.

While the wall covering appears to depict wreckage, it may have a hopeful message: The faux gouges contain crystals, “which we associate with growth,” said Mr. Arsham, speaking from his weekend house on Long Island where he has hunkered down with his wife and children.

“There’s an ambiguity,” he added. “Are things falling apart or are they growing to some kind of completion?”

The Erosions Collection in the colorway Selenite is shown in this article

C’è l’idea romantica dei muri coperti da rampicanti dietro la nuova creazione di Calico Wallpaper, una carta da parati che riproduce un’edera dipinta a mano scendere dal soffitto. La collezione Overgrown è una decorazione che supera il concetto di pattern per diventare quasi un’installazione domestica.

E non è un caso infatti se l’idea nata dalla collaborazione con lo studio Charlap Hyman & Herrero è stata presentata in un castello austriaco in occasione di Schloss Hollenegg for design, progetto curato dalla fondatrice Alice Stori Liechtenstein.

Video by James Eades, Steven Wilsey, and Stephanie Couture

Today VDF teams up with Schloss Hollenegg for a tour of the historic castle in Austria and live interview with curator Alice Stori Liechtenstein.

Stori Liechtenstein spoke live to Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, as well as sharing a specially recorded tour of Schloss Hollenegg.

The castle, which dates back to 1163, is home to Schloss Hollenegg for Design, a cultural programme established by Stori Liechtenstein in 2015.

Last week saw the opening of Walden, an exhibition exploring our relationship with the wilder side of the natural world, which features works by 22 designers.

On the tour, you can watch above as well as on Dezeen’s Facebook page, Stori Liechtenstein discusses the pieces, which are dotted around the castle and its grounds, the recounts the history of her home.

Usually closed to the public, the castle opens once a year to the public for its annual design show. This year’s public opening has been cancelled due to coronavirus, but the exhibition has been mounted and will be brought to life via the live tour and an accompanying video.

Participants in the Walden exhibition are Crafting Plastics, Charlap Hyman & Herrero, Calico Wallpaper, Marlène Huissoud, cc-tapis, Klemens Schillinger, Sophie Dries, Kaia, Arvid & Marie, Thomas Ballouhey, Thomas Barger, BNAG, Commonplace, Marianne Drews, Jonas Edvard, Destroyers/Buildres, Marc Leschelier, mischer’traxler, Odd Matter, Marylou Petot, Studio B Severin, Study O Portable, Studiotut, Evalie Wagner and Sander Wassink.

Visit This: A Digital Art Show in an Austrian Castle

Each year, the curator Alice Stori Liechtenstein invites a group of young designers to live and work for one to three weeks at Schloss Hollenegg, her husband’s family’s 12th-century castle in rural Austria… and the Brooklyn-based studio Charlap Hyman & Herrero collaborated with the wallpaper company Calico to create a lush if violent print that depicts entangled vines…

The Overgrow Collection in the colorway Alice is currently on display at Schloss Hollenegg.

Looking for nursery decorating ideas? We’ve found the best baby room ideas from the Livingetc archives. Whether it’s for a baby girl or a baby boy, and whether you’re looking for something bright and colourful, or calm and Scandi-inspired, we’ve found some gorgeous baby room ideas to inspire you…

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A cosy teepee and a sheepskin rug soften the look in this nursery room. This baby’s room has the most glamorous wallpaper going, using satellite imagery from Nasa.

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Here you can view the wallpaper up close which uses satellite imagery from Nasa.

Our Inverted Spaces Collection in the colorway Orion is featured in this nursery.

This week: Schloss Hollenegg’s new exhibition launches in 3-D, Lex Pott makes moves from candles to soap-making, and a beloved New York photographer launches in-demand jigsaw puzzles.

Silver linings everhwere with this pandemic – it made it impossible for people to visit Schloss Hollenegg’s summer exhibition, but inspired curator Alice Liechtenstein to take the exhibit to the people, so that those of us who wouldn’t have been able to fit in a trip to her castle outside Vienna can now do so virtually. The show, Walden, “opens” today via Instagram Live talks and 3-D tours, showcasing works developed on-site by Charlap Hyman & Herrero (who made the hand-painted vine wallpaper shown above in collaboration with Calico)…

The Overgrow Collection in the colorway Alice is shown above & currently installed at Schloss Hollenegg.

On our radar: a collaboration between Brooklyn-based wallcovering company Calico and LA/NYC architecture and design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero, installed at Schloss Hollenegg, an Austrian castle. The collection of bespoke wallcovering, called Overgrow, is part of “Walden,” an exhibition curated by Alice Stori Liechtenstein, founder of the castle’s design program.

The Overgrow Collection in the colorway Alice is currently installed at Schloss Hollenegg, pictured above.

LAUNCHES, COLLABORATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS

File under “unconventional places to debut a wallpaper line.” A collab between Brooklyn-based makers Calico Wallpaper and Los Angeles-based architecture firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero has premiered at — wait for it — Schloss Hollenegg, a castle in Austria. “Overgrow” was inspired by the cascading greenery that teems along the covered walkways, staircases, and towers around the castle.

The Overgrow Collection is shown above in the colorways Franz and Alice (installed at Schloss Hollenegg).

1. 1. Calico Wallpaper

2. Fast-rising architecture firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the art an design world, including Nina Johnson Gallery and Friedman Benda, as well as leading fashion retailers like Everlane and Barneys New York. This month, it introduced a striking wall covering collection, Overgrow, with Calico Wallpaper. Featuring a blossoming tumble of vines, the design made its debut at Schloss Hollenegg, a historic Austrian castle that is continually reconfigured to promote the work of emerging designers.

3. The Overgrow Collection in the colorway Cosmio is featured in Galerie Magazine

Over the weekend, Alice Stori Liechtenstein inaugurated the latest edition of her ongoing design exhibition and residency, a project set against the dramatic backdrop of her Austrian castle, Schloss Hollenegg. Titled Walden, this year’s theme invited designers to think about bringing nature back into everyday life. But not the romantic version of it, as Liechtenstein explains, the gritty, wild kind.

‘I want to address the environmental crisis,’ says Stori Liechtenstein, the castle’s resident and curator. ‘In the past 18 months there have been some groundbreaking exhibitions on design and ecology, and I felt it was necessary to keep the conversation alive and explore it further. I find a lot of the current narrative is unnecessarily politicised and guilt-inducing, so I wanted to talk more about nature than the damage we are doing to it, in the hope of reawakening our innate love for the earth.’

Calico Wallpaper collaborated with Charlap Hyman & Herrero to produce a collection from this installation titled Overgrow. The collection has various colorways, including Alice, named after the curator of the show, and is the colorway currently installed at Schloss Hollenegg.

Nature is at the center of a new digital exhibition staged by Alice Liechtenstein at Schloss Hollenegg.

When Italian design curator Alice LIechtenstein moved with her family in 2014 to Schloss Hollenegg, a rambling 12th-century castle in Austria that was her husband’s ancestral home, she was confronted with something new: nature. Not the idyllic, wildflowers-from-my-country-house kind of nature. It was something messier, less romantic, a little out of control…

design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero and Calico Wallpaper brought those vines and insects that had once so maddened Liechtenstein inside in the form of a fanciful printed wallpaper, derived from an oil painting.

“We wanted to distort the distinction between the decorated interior and the wilderness beyond,” Adam Charlap Hyman explains, “while referencing the presence of numerous historical landscape wallpapers throughout the castle.”

The collaboration between Charlap Hyman & Herrero and Calico Wallpaper yielded Overgrow. This colorway installed at Schloss Hollenegg isAlice, named after the Italian design curator.

The Inverted Spaces Collection in the colorway Orion is shown in this article.

Nick Cope, co-founder of Calico Wallpaper + Cope with Rachel Cope

On navigating the disruption-
These times are certainly unusual, fortunately, due to many of the digital systems we have in place we were able to move to remote work fairly quickly and seamlessly (good wallpaper pun!). Rachel and I are upstate at our house in Hudson because our kids are out of school and this affords them a lot more room to run around. Of course, we are having to share duties spending time with the kids so our combined work output is a little reduced at the moment.

On making business changes-
The business is humming along and we are still designing, sampling, printing, and taking orders without much change at all. Our team has been excellent in handling these sudden changes heroically! We are so grateful that they are working hard to keep the company vision moving forward.

On reimagining their business-
The sudden change has reminded me how fragile we all are in this complex ecosystem. Rachel and I have begun to discuss new goals and milestones for our business and although these are private at the moment, we hope to unveil new initiatives soon.

On what they’re experiencing personally + professionally-
I feel like my life has done a bit of a 180 in the last month! Rachel and I are in a unique situation too because we are both partners in business and life. We are trying to balance these rapid personal and professional changes without friction and I feel like we have been doing a good job. I would say that it is nice to be upstate with a view of the Catskills out my window, however, I am pretty much glued to my computer at the moment and I miss the interactions with the team or even little trips to the cafe for a break.

On staying positive-
Taking walks and spending time with the kids has been the best way to stay positive. Obviously, Tiger King on Netflix has made all the difference too.

On hope for the future-
At the moment, I am just hoping for the other side to become clear. There may be some significant lasting impacts to this crisis and hopefully some of them are positive. For instance, attention to health insurance in the United States must become a priority. The system is totally nonsensical and should have been nationalized a century ago like much of the industrialized world. Also, climate change is another crisis that will be an increasingly disruptive force in our lifetime so maybe this crisis will remind us that it is time to act.

10. Available in six colorways, Calico Wallpaper’s Escape reflects how glaciers carve new forms into the Earth’s surface by carrying traces from the past.

The Escape Collection in the colorway Andes is featured in Hospitality Design’s February 2020 issue.

… Expect to see more product launches during the new stay-at-home reality… For product debuts originally timed to NYCxDesign, Calico Wallpaper is pursuing digital announcements and storytelling instead.

Photography by Adam Ryder & Matthew Johnson

Peek inside some of our favorite designers’ home offices, and get their tips for creating a successful WFH setup (or mindset) of your own.

Because we could all use a little home-office inspiration right now, we asked some of our favorite creatives to share their own shelter-in-place work spaces. Plus, we rounded up their tips and takeaways for making the best of working from home — even if that means getting the job done from your kitchen table.

Photography by Nick Cope

Giant waves were lashing against the side of the apartment building. Just outside the living room window, an electrical transformer exploded, sending sparks flying. Inside, Nick and Rachel Cope were starting a wallpaper company.

It was 2012, and Hurricane Sandy was laying waste to New York’s low-lying neighborhoods, including Red Hook, Brooklyn, where the young couple were hunkered down. In the aftermath of the storm, most of Nick’s projects—he had a design-build company at the time—were put on hold, and the hospital where Rachel was working as a therapist was shut down for post-Sandy repairs. So the Copes took advantage of the break to experiment with making marbled paper, a project that evolved over time into a bustling company, Calico Wallpaper.

Almost a decade later, they’re facing another disaster-induced hiatus, with their Brooklyn design studio closed by stay-at-home orders issued to halt the spread of COVID-19. This time around, the Copes have a staff of 11, not to mention two young children at home—the stakes are different. “Sandy was awful, but it was fairly localized and we did see the light at the end of the tunnel,” Nick tells Business of Home. “We’re taking some of that experience into this, but this situation is obviously different.”

The company is facing a heap of challenges—a creative team learning how to work over Zoom, a design director stranded in South Africa with a wonky laptop—but in many ways, the Copes are lucky. The mills that manufacture their wallpaper are currently operating, placing them into the fortunate category of vendors who can still ship product. Across the country, many makers are facing a more complete shutdown, putting a famously industrious community into uncharted territory: downtime…

Photography by Daniel Shea

Through all of the uncertainty and stress that COVID-19 pandemic is causing around the world, the interior design community continues to rise to the occasion in amazing ways. Online retails are donating part of their proceeds to charity; PR firms and interior designers are raising money via Instagram initiatives; and now the design studio General Assembly has partnered with 40 members of the New York City design community to host the online auction At Home, which will be live through April 12, with all net proceeds going to the humanitarian aid organization Direct Relief. The auction’s stellar lineup includes pieces by Anna Karlin, Apparatus, Egg Collective, Kinder Modern, and the Future Perfect, just to name a few. See more of our favorite pieces going up for sale below, and don’t forget to bid — this is one auction you won’t want to miss.

9. Well Wallpaper

This ombré wallcovering by Calico would add contrast to just about any wall. Now’s the time to update your home!

Our Aurora Collection in the colorway Well was up for bid and shown above.

Now that we are all looking into each other’s homes on FaceTime and Zoom, it’s time to rethink wallpaper — and not the virtual kind.

The wallpaper business was booming before coronavirus forced us all to contemplate the state of the walls in our home-and in the home of everyone else on our virtual meeting. Those in the industry are taking notice: “We’ve seen a big spike in wallpaper sample orders,” says Noel Fahden, vice president of merchandising at online retailer Chairish. “Many customers are ordering five-plus samples at a time, so they’re clearly considering a range of options.”…

Florals  – Status brand Calico Wallpaper, meanwhile, has produced a couple of more subtle flower-inspired patterns, including Flora which evokes “the eternal calm and serenity of an open field.”

Our Flora Collection in the colorway Wildflower is featured in this article.