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
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
…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.
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.
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. Calico Wallpaper
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.
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.
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
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.
“…To David Alhadeff, founder of the influential design gallery The Future Perfect, the rise in eclecticism has to do with broader changes in design itself. He recently opened the third installment of Casa Perfect, a nomadic design gallery that takes over an entire house. The current iteration is in a mid-century modern home in Los Angeles and features an eclectic mix of work: Matthew Day Jackson’s hand-sculpted tables and chairs; Chris Wolston’s anthropomorphic wicker furniture and prismatic botanical lighting; Calico Wallpaper’s gilded wallcovering; and Seungjin Yang’s playful blown-glass seating.”
The Aura Collection in the colorway Svad is featured as an accent wall in the Beverly Hills The Future Perfect Showroom.
Our collaboration with British designer Faye Toogood – Woodlands Fields, Moors is featured in the March 2020 issue of Salon Magazin. The colorway Moors is featured in the print issue.
For its fourth installment, Casa Perfect takes over a 1970s Trousdale Estates home, designed by Raul F Garduno. Casa Perfect – the nomadic showhouse concept of The Future Perfect gallery – has an unprecedented relationship with the architecture it inhabits. Previous iteration in Los Angeles saw installations in the former home of Elvis Presley and at the David Hyun designed century house in the Hollywood Hills. Similarly, for its first New York outing in 2019, Casa Perfect opened the doors of a West Village five-story townhouse designed by David Chipperfield…
Calico Wallpaper’s Aura Collection in the colorway Svad makes a grand splash behind the dining area in the new iteration of the Los Angeles based home/showroom.
… Another easy update that has added a lot of joy to the apartment is the Calico Wallpaper. “I was inspired by the brand, so I went to their office and loved everything,” says Isabella. “In one room it looks like the surface of the moon (Lunaris in the colorway Midnight) and in the guest bedroom it’s this amazing ombré sunset (Aurora in the colorway Ray).”
Photography by Paola + Murray
“You walk into something like this, and you see a Jacuzzi tub like that, and you’re having a hard time peeling your chin off the floor,” he says, gesturing toward the sunken-tiled Roman tub in the master bathroom, now surrounded by gold-leaf Calico wallpaper and wall-to-wall carpet that is not original to the house, yet serendipitously fits right in with the original popcorn ceilings, seagrass wall treatment, and vertical blinds. “The house is really sexy, and it was a beautiful tableau to bring ourselves into.” Call it Boogie Nights chic.”
A walk up the pathway to LA’s new Casa Perfect—an architecturally stunning showroom for art and design gallery The Future Perfect—hints at what will be inside. Lush foliage, with both California and Japanese influences, leads to a massive ’70s-style front door, crafted from elegant dark wood. Push one of the large vertical handles forward to step inside an expansive living room with soft carpet underfoot. Wonder unfolds…
Calico Wallpaper’s Aura Collection in the colorway Svad makes a grand splash behind the dining area in the new iteration of the Los Angeles based home/showroom.
The Future Perfect’s blue-chip designers to showcase their latest work in a dynamic, lived-in environment that conjures much more excitement than the typical white cube. For this iteration, the gallery’s third in Los Angeles, Alhadeff selected a historic residence designed in 1971 by a mid-century powerhouse Raul F. Garduno in Trousdale Estates, a picturesque neighborhood located at the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountain. Our Aura wallpaper in the colorway Svad is featured in the dining area, in good company with Kolho Table and Chairs by our friend Matthew Day Jackson and a Maxhedron Chandelier by the Bec Brittain.
Happy new year, everyone! This year is going to be a good one, we can feel it. To start things off on the right foot with our Designer Desktop column, especially after the holiday craze, we’re bringing some zen into your life with this tranquil Escape wallpaper designed by Calico Wallpaper in collaboration with artist and sculptor Fernando Mastrangelo. Available in six color ways, the collection features an illustration of the glacial movements that shape landscapes. Paired with a fitting quote by Georgia O’Keefe, these wallpapers are truly lovely to see when you open up your laptop or pick up your phone.
Calico Wallpaper had two launches at the fair — a Beverly Hills Hotel-inspired banana leaf pattern backdropping Swarovski’s booth and this collaboration in the collector’s lounge with Fernando Mastrangelo, which riffs on the designer’s layered sand aesthetic and reflects how glacial movement can shape landscapes.
The Escape Collection in the colorways Arctic, Matterhorn, and Perito are featured in Sight Unseen’s Best Of Design Miami 2019
…Overall booths that were inspiring were from some of our favorite brands—including Fendi, Swarovski, Louis Vuitton, Perrier-Jouët, and Gemfields… Swarovski’s dazzling booth drew us in with sparkle and pizazz, first with a wave-like installation of Tord Boontje’s “Light Drops,” and a mural—based on hand-painted artworks—that doubles as bespoke wallpaper by Nick and Rachel Cope, co-founders of Calico Wallpaper.
Our Topographies Collection, made in collaboration with Snarkitecture – of which Daniel Arsham is a partner – in the colorway Winter accents the wall of his study.
Photography by Jason Schmidt
Calico Wallpaper, the Brooklyn-based bespoke wallcoverings company, will make its debut in Paris and London this month, launching collections at Maison&Objet today and the London Design Festival next week.
During the festival (London Design Festival), Calico Wallpaper will introduce its Prism collection at SCP, a leading furniture manufacturer and retailer in the city. The Prism collection features patterns that reimagine the subtle, rainbow-colored reflections created when light diffuses through crystals.
At Maison&Objet, which runs through September 10, Calico Wallpaper is presenting a vastly different wallcovering: Singing Sand. The Collection is part of a mirage-like installation at Triode called Visions / Perceptions, which explores the connection between material realities and optical illusions and will be on view until October 5.
Photography by Charlie Schuck
Suddenly, bold patterns are everywhere. But do they have a place in the modern home? We asked a Brooklyn design writer who knows a thing or two about the dos and dont’s of decor.
Step into any home’s powder room today and chances are good that you’ll encounter bedecked walls that you’ll either find tasteful or tawdry: Wallpaper is back, friends. And it’s not just for trad manses and country-fresh farmhouses. In modern and contemporary spaces–where minimalism once ruled–designers are warming to the idea of wallcoverings, particularly in powder rooms and guests baths.
No less a source than Pinterest has reported a 401 percent increase in searches for “bold print wallpaper” so far this year. It’s the opposite of the reverence for honestly expressed building materials, fetish for Scandinavian simplicity, and preference for paint that has dominated for more than a decade. So, is it sacrilege to ornament architecture with wallpaper? It’s worthy of exploring.
In some cases, wallpaper is practical. Consider historic homes where there are restrictions on radical structural changes–even if they previously underwent disastrous interventions. In my neck of the woods, Brooklyn, there are a number of historic districts with homes plagued by awkward, outdated floor plans and appendages, oddly shaped and tight spaces, or windowless and subgrade dungeons. Architects and designers are modernizing these to a degree, attempting to respect and preserve the original turn-of-the-century design intent. This is where, just like bold paint color, wallpaper can make a huge impact.
…Like paint color or a shift in material palette, wallcoverings can accentuate a nook, create a focal point, or inject character, softness, or a pop of color into a super-minimalist–sometimes too spartan–space. This Manhattan pied-à-terre would resemble any other New York City cookie-cutter abode were it not for a striking headboard wall, courtesy of Calico Wallpaper.
Our Relic Collection in the colorway Tabla was featured in Issue 47 of Gray Magazine
Our Muse Collection in the colorway Coco was featured in Elle Decor NL Magazine’s August/September 2019 print issue
Calico Wallpaper + Toogood
De Nueva York a Londres. A ambos lados del Atlántio se ha creado Muse, la coleccioón de papeles de pared que triunfó en el Salone del Mobile. Muse explora la infinita diversidad y variedad de mujeres, formando un cuadro pictórico de caras con una gran variedad de características, poses y expresiones. Basada en una obra de arte original pintada a mano por Toogood con pinceladas de barrido, la segunda colección de la diseñadora para Calico Wallpaper está inspirada en el concepto de musa femenina, con combinaciones de colores que honran a mujeres icónicas como Marie Curie y Coco Chanel.