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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

Palette in the color way ‘Albers’ featured in Elle Decoration UK’s May 2018 print issue.

Good design can lift the spirits, which is why this stylish condominimum at 259 Elizabeth Street is more than just easy on the eyes. The two-bedroom-plus-office duplex, asking $1.545 million, is filled with lovely custom details and designs, from bespoke Calico wallpaper in a bohemian version of spun gold to the Solarium that comprises a bedroom’s outer wall…

Wabi ‘Cloud’ is shown installed in this condo.

This home was designed by integrating IKEA furniture and systems with some of our favourite accessories, lights, and art by local artists. This IKEA Hack home is the ultimate DIY high-low project with clever modifications to some basic IKEA pieces, your home can be both beautiful to look at and make the most of accessible furniture…

Nothing can have a bigger impact on the mood of a room like wall coverings.  I love Calico Wallpaper because they offer so much custom-made choice.  They are all about “taking art out of the frame and putting it onto the wall.”  Their merger of traditional techniques and digital design combine to offer a very organic, bespoke product.  I have visited this product on display, and in house, and my impression is Calico has the flexibility to cater to any style and taste.  It all depends on what you crave…

Los Angeles – based interior designer Jessica Ayromloo met her clients, a young married couple, in 2016, when they purchased a condo in a design-build residence in Tribeca. They spent a year and a half finessing the interiors, as these buildings must be completed before their owners can move in. So rather than rip out the default kitchen and bath utilities and go to town on structural changes, – the first thing that many designers do when their clients get the green light to move in – Ayromloo concentrated on the décor and simply added casework where she wanted to implement storage and design features…

Photography by Annie Schlechter

Marked by non-repeating patterns and intricate details, these wallcoverings and wallpaper double as eye candy for your living room.

Spring has arrived and we’re dreaming of warm nights, summer weather, and the pastel sky at sunset that never ceases to amaze. Bring a little slice of sky home with Aurora Heaven wallpaper from Calico Wallpaper.

Không gian phủ đầy cây xanh tại nhà hàng ẩm thực Việt Nam – Di An Di ở Brooklyn

The space is filled with greenery at the dining restaurant Vietnam – Di An Di in Brooklyn

Aura ‘Svad’ featured as the backdrop to Interior Design’s May 31 2018 Spring Market Tabloid

Aurora ‘Bayou’ printed on Belgian linen by our sister company Cope

If there were two words to describe Calico Wallpaper, they would be big and beautiful. Founded by Nick and Rachel Cope in 2013, Calico Wallpaper is truly one of the most unique wallpaper companies we’ve stumbled upon. The founders take the arts of Suminagashi and Ebru, traditional paper marbling practices, and combine them with new techniques, materials and technologies to create stunning masterpieces…

Interview with Lindsey Adelman and Rachel Cope (co-founder of Calico Wallpaper) by David Harris for Belle Australia Magazine’s June/July 2018 Issue.

New York designer Huy Bui turned to studios and brands based in Brooklyn to create the verdant interiors for this Vietnamese restaurant in the borough’s Greenpoint neighborhood…

Aurora Bayou is installed in the restaurant, shown above.

The super dreamy backdrop to Lindsey Adelman’s new lighting collection is actually available to order now. Calico’s Oceania Collection comes in colors reminiscent of the ocean (obvi), and a really stunning texture that, from what we can tell, would serve as a dramatic effect in any room.

This year marked our tenth anniversary of attending the Salone del Mobile in Milan, and this year’s fair felt a bit … different. The showrooms were more crowded, the brands were more lavish, and the trends felt less obvious. But the biggest difference for us was in our own attitude towards the fair, and our confidence in living out the week on our own terms. Ten years of pounding the pavement have taught us many important lessons, including a) figure out the Milanese tram system; b) never day drink c) make time for inspiring field trips and long lunches with friends and d) only see the things you’re absolutely dying to see. Here’s the first of our posts chronicling all the wonderful things we found…

Two New York interior designer favorites – the lighting doyenne Lindsey Adelman and the wallpaper-design duo Calico – collaborated on a launch of works themed around corrosion. Adelman debuted a patinated brass Drop pendant series and Calico introduced a photorealistic wallpaper made by scanning an original painting that had been corroded with salt.

Lighting doyenne Lindsey Adelman joined forces with Calico Wallpaper to present “Beyond the Deep,” an immersive undersea installation at Via Pietro Maroncelli 7. It marks the launch of Adelman’s Drop System, a De Stijl-inspired lighting series that features hand-blown mini globes affixed to verdigris-finished brass tubes. Backdropping Adelman’s fixtures are Calico Wallpaper’s brand-new Oceania collection in two shades and fluid-like Sumi Collection in a custom colorway.

Listed as one of seven “Best Installations, Collaborations, and Projects” by Architectural Digest for Milan Design Week 2018

Lindsey Adelman and Calico Wallpaper teamed up for a joint presentation, titled “Beyond the Deep,” after discovering that they were both experimenting with corrosive chemical reactions…

New York designer Lindsey Adelman and brand Calico Wallpaper have collaborated on a joint presentation for Milan design week, including lighting and murals patterned using salt to create effects of “alchemy and decay”…

So excited to announce our contribution to the Cooper Hewitt ‘s new sensory-focused exhibition ‘The Senses: Design Beyond Vision” which opens today! Our Topographies wallpaper which we made in collaboration with design group Snarkitecture will be be on display April 13-October 28

In her first solo residential project, Brooklyn-based designer Amber Rogers of Amber Rogers Design tranformed a Boreum Hill three-bedroom high-rise apartment into a comfortable, dreamy home with meticulously curated pieces by local artisans…

Inverted Spaces in ‘Orion‘ is featured as a bedroom accent wall in this apartment featured on The Cut.

Photography by Argonaut Productions

A Kingdom to the Horizon

When the king sits on his throne, then he owns the world. Nick and Rachel Cope, founders of the Calico company in New York, with their sensual wall coverings, open their eyes to distant horizons with Faye Toogood’s wallpaper “Fields”. The London designer also designed the matching royal seat made of fiberglass. His name is “Roly Poly”. This is called Moppelchen, but does not detract from the imperial wonder.

Featured in Architektur & Wohnen’s April 2018 issue