Night Slate installed in a Crown Heights Brownstone by BFDO Architects

A Design Gallery to Feel at Home In

On Monday, the influential design gallery the Future Perfect will open Casa Perfect New York, a West Village brownstone furnished with emerging contemporary design — one of the most exciting retail events in the field since Murray Moss opened his namesake store in 1994…

After its success in L.A., the residential retail concept moves into a 5,000-square-foot Italianate brownstone in Manhattan.

Wabi ‘River’ (hanging, left) and Mira & Miloš ‘Tvid’ (rolled, right) featured in Martha Stewart’s Living Magazine March 2019 Issue.

Designer Keren Richter has worked on a lot of projects over the years, but this one is her most personal yet.

Working slowly and intentionally over the course of two years, the creative director and cofounder of design firm White Arrow put together a magical nursery for her 2-year-old daughter, Mira. And it all started with the wallpaper…

Photography by Cody Guilfoyle

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“It’s such an easy room to make such a big impact,” says Leifer. Coombs created a curved countertop to echo the drip detail on the Calico wallpaper, and Leifer commissioned custom gilding by Contraposto for the ceiling and crown molding. Sconces by Waterworks, a faucet by Graff, and a sink basin by Vitraform complete the jewel box conceit.

Our Satori Collection in the colorway Echo was installed in the bathroom makeover of William Randolph Hearst’s New York Penthouse by Bennett Leifer Interiors.

Photography by Stephen Kent Johnson

Our Oceania Collection in the color way ‘Siren‘ installed as a backsplash in this kitchen

The Calico process combines artisanal methods with decorative arts, such as traditional marbling and dip-dying techniques, with innovative digital technologies. Calico Wallpaper collaborates with important designers and architects. In addition to residential projects, Calico Wallpaper designs have been exhibited internationally at the London Design Festival (2015 and 2017), at the Milan Furniture Fair (2015 and 2017), and have won a place in the permanent collection at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

También gustó el papel de pared experimental de Philippe Malouin, libremente inspirado en los cut-outs de Matisse, dispuesto a convertir el más anodino comedor en una obra de arte total gracias a materiales de coste reducido.

…Another collaboration, this time between Calico Wallpaper and designer Philippe Malouin who presented The Color and the Shape. Inspired by Henri Matisse’s cutouts, the interactive installation included oversized shapes that take collage to a large scale.

Calico and Philippe Malouin combined creative forces to great effect with a collage-based wallpaper that was comprised of layering various materials to shape a room into a Matisse-inspired exercise in abstraction.

Thirty four exhibitions encapsulate Design Miami, composing “eleven Curio presentations representing venues from twelve countries,” according to organizers. Design trends include the use of industrial materials and processes, 3-D printing and robotics.

Founded in Brooklyn, N.Y., the artisanal Calico Wallpaper company exhibition titled “The Color and The Shape” focuses on the firm’s bespoke wallpaper envisioned by London designer Philippe Malouin in collaboration with Nick and Rachel Cope.

“The idea originated out of experiments in creating shapes by tearing paper by hand,” explains Rachel Cope, co-founder and creative director at Calico Wallpaper. “We then began to overlay the resulting organic forms to create a large-scale collage.” Materials range from from Tyvek and paper to mesh. The full collection will be available after the show.

Calico Wallpaper and Philippe Malouin present The Color and the Shape

What it is: The most non-traditional wallpaper you’ve ever seen, in fact, it’s more like a paper and mesh collage in hues of blue, calling to mind waves from the perspective of a dolphin.

File next to: The bathroom of your dreams with a huge bathtub, candles and walls like this.

The designers: Brooklyn-based duo Rachel and Nick Cope, who are the force behind Calico wallpaper, are inspired by unknown desert landscapes, the booth structure and mesmerizing patterns reminiscent of sand moved by wind and weather.

The takeaway: This installation reimagines how wallpaper can transform a wall into “abstraction, texture and a modular game of layering,” according to the designers. “Taking inspiration from Henri Matisse and his technique of ‘carving into color,’ a library with a set number of shapes in specific colors and sizes will be the basis for the collage wall assemblies.”

From December 5-9, Design Miami/ is presenting a diverse roster of presentations from 33 exhibitors. On view from the world’s top galleries are 20th and 21st century objects, furniture, lighting, an collectibles…

The fair’s platform, Design Curio/, gains attention with 11 participants, including highlights like: Calico Wallpaper’s Curio Project, The Color and the Shape, presented together with London-based designer Philippe Malouin…

Calico Wallpaper x Philippe Malouin Just a month ago, in Calico’s Red Hook, Brooklyn studio, I watched as industrial designer Philippe Malouin and wallpaper designer Rachel Cope taped large swaths of material on the wall: Tyvek, mesh, paper of varying colors. Now the final results are on show in a Curio at Design Miami, an idea perhaps for hypercustom, collaged wall assemblages to come.

Walls of change

Many a 2-year-old with a box of crayons has treated wallpaper as an interactive medium, but this wallpaper – The Color & the Shape, designed by Philippe Malouin, who is Canadian and British, and manufactured by Rachel and Nick Cope’s Calico Wallpaper in Brooklyn – really is. Also part of the Curio program, it was inspired by Henri Matisse’s vibrant and influential cutouts from the late 1940s and early ’50s. The medium is the method: colorful, textured, oversized hand-cut forms that can be rearranged and layered, so you can devise a different collage for a special dinner party or houseguest, or just because seasons change and life is ephemeral. Mr. Malouin’s other furniture designs include revolving chairs, high-fashion stools and splashy chandeliers.

At the Design Curio section of the fair, Calico Wallpaper and Philippe Malouin have collaborated to create an interactive surface collage titled ‘The Color and the Shape’ taking inspiration from Henri Matisse cut-outs.

Calico created the custom wallpaper which makes its appearance as accent walls throughout the Mulberry shop.

Photography by Michael Franke

Wallpaper* Magazine’s interactive Design Miami/ map features key happenings around the city during the festival. Calico Wallpaper x Philippe Malouins’ Curio booth imagery has been chosen as the lead image for Design Curio.

Calico Wallpaper and PHilippe Malouin will present “The Color and the Shape.” The Color and the Shape transforms an expanse of wall space into an interactive surface for collage. Constructed from colorful hand-cut forms in eclectic, textured, and oversized materials, the project takes its inspiration from Henri Matisse’s cutouts and the technique he described as “carving into color.”

Surface Magazine teamed up with photographer Mark Mann to document the thinkers, artists, activists, and entrepreneurs at this year’s Summit festival in Los Angeles. Surface Magazine used our Sumi Collection in the color way ‘Stone‘ as a backdrop for these photos.

Photography by Mark Mann for Surface Magazine

Rachel Cope’s Lavender Printed Skirt

The Piece: I bought it for a photo shoot for a collaborative exhibition that we put on for Salone del Mobile. I love Rachel Comey and I typically go to her store if I have a special occasion. I really respect her as an artist, as a mother, as a business owner.

Our Satori Collection in Plateau was featured on the front cover of Elle Decoration Netherlands for their October/November 2018 issue.

…an entire wall of the exhibition space is also filled with more of Arsham’s eroded aesthetic, as it reveals a broken structure inside. The visual effect was achieved through an art technique created by trompe-l’oeil wallpaper designs that Arsham created with Brooklyn design studio Calico Wallpaper.

Additionally, an entire wall is filled with more of Arsham’s eroded aesthetic, as it reveals a broken wooden structure inside. The visual effect was achieved through an art technique called trompe-l’oeil, with wallpaper designs Arsham made in conjunction with Brooklyn design studio Calico Wallpaper.

The walls of this space also appear to be crumbling away to reveal a broken wooden structure inside. But this effect is created by trompe-l’oeil wallpaper designs that Arsham created with Brooklyn design studio Calico Wallpaper for the exhibition.

It looks as if we might just have reached peak botanical, and as like nature, the surface design industry abhors a vacuum, the question is, what’s next? While metallics have been heavily mooted, and there’s undoubtedly an interest in graphic grids and geometrics for 2018, the trend that feels freshest right now is driven by the world of abstract art…

Photography by Guillaume Ziccarelli

Brooklyn, New York-based Calico Wallpaper offers several celestial-themed designs. Lunaris has fog-, smoke-, and midnight-hued backgrounds with silver overlay that evoke the moon’s surface as seen through a telescope. Aurora, with a soothing palette in an ombré pattern, depicts the sky’s constant transformation from dawn to dusk.

Calico Wallpaper showed its panoramic Oceania wallpaper, built up from a watercolour wash scattered with salt. “The salt dissolves, leaving crystalline traces that capture seawater’s soft texture,” explains co-founder Rachel Cope.

Calico Wallpaper has also co-produced a wallpaper called Topographies with Brooklyn design studio Snarkitecture, made by tearing layers of paper to create a 3D effect resembling a topographic map.

Another Calico wallpaper design, Palette, features gigantic brushstrokes. These designs are then digitized so they can be custom-printed to fit any wall and are durable.

Our Oceania wallpaper featured in WISH magazine’s round up of Salone del Mobile 2018

5. Cool and Contemporary

Designer: Christopher Kitterman of STADT Architecture
Location: NYC
Size: 114 square feet (11 square meters); 12 by 9.5 feet

Wall treatment. Custom color-and-drip layout version of Calico’s Satori wallpaper. “We worked closely with Calico to fine-tune the green palette tones and then drew the elevation on where the drips would occur,” Kitterman says. “By using a photo of Vancouver’s Stanley Park showing a golden sun steaming through a lush evergreen landscape, we developed our wallcovering, which is a translation of this image, a gold-leafed filed that melds into a series of rich, saturated green tones.”

Our Satori Collection in a custom color way is featured in this article.

For another personal touch to the armoire bar, wallpaper is key. “Wallpaper helps create the drama of a ‘party on the inside,'” says Alia. “In design, opposites attract. So here, the opposites are this vintage piece on the outside, but when you open it up, it’s this very modern, glamorous style.”

Our Night Collection in the color way ‘Aubergine‘ was used as the wallpaper touch inside this armoire turned bar.

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Watch Alia Ahmed-Yahia transform a closet with our Wabi ‘River’ wallpaper. An exclusive look at our wallpaper being installed!

Check out Alia Ahmed-Yahia talking about how she styled our Lunaris collection in the color way ‘Night‘

Sumi in the color way ‘Stone’ was installed wrapping around the room of Designer Elena Frampton’s new Hamptons Design Gallery.