When husband-wife duo Rachel and Nick Cope created Calico Wallpaper back in 2013, customers, including interior designer, Amy Lau, were so enamored with the paper’s whimsical watercolor-like prints that they urged the couple to extend their designs beyond the four walls of a room. With a textile artist for a mother, and raised learning the medium’s processes, Rachel believed fabric seemed like a natural complement to the company’s existing papers. Nick agreed, and nearly five years since Calico’s inception, the twosome has added a soft goods collection, Cope, to their local operation…

Cope is now available and online.

“I’ve always been a fan of Art Nouveau,” explains the designer Amy Lau. “It appeals to me because it embraces its natural form.” Lau is speaking to me in the midst of a frenzied week of preparations for the Salon Art + Design, where she’s been invited to create an installation among the booths of venerable vendors who will bring treasures of art and design to the Park Avenue Armory for the show. When Lau’s completed room was unveiled at Salon’s opening night on Thursday, guests marveled at her dreamlike space, where period pieces of Art Nouveau furniture blended with contemporary design, Robert Burle Marx jewelry, and more – even the fabrics and wall coverings were custom-conceived to fit into Lau’s magical world…

Interior designer Amy Lau created “The New Nouveau” exhibit ATMOSPHERE for Salon Art + Design and invited co-founder Rachel Cope of Calico Wallpaper to create a custom wallpaper for the space.  The entire space is covered in a hand-painted opalescent mural and helps tie together and set the mood for the booth.

Photography by Daniel Kukla

Brooklyn not only presents itself as an appealing locale for materials and manufacturing but also as a kind of support system for RISD grads. Rachel Cope of Calico Wallpaper, who recently had tea with Adelman to discuss their new projects, says she couldn’t imagine leaving the combined living and workspace she shares with her husband and business partner, Nick. “You share this secret language,” she explains about the RISD alumni assembly. “You’ve had many sleepless nights working on a project that exhibited your passion for art. The other RISD alums in Brooklyn, they just kind of get it. It never leaves you.”

An interview with co-founders Nick and Rachel and Cereal Magazine‘s Ruth Ainsworth about Calico Wallpaper and Cope.

Photography by Matthew Johnson

…And the new line of pillows or curtains make their handiwork even more accessible to a larger amount of people. That’s where they’re starting with Cope: with pillows and yardage, and, soon after, curtains. Then comes scarves, napkins place mats, and eventually, rug design.

Please visit our sister company Cope here.

Our Woodlands, Fields, Moors Collection which was made in collaboration with British designer Faye Toogood was featured in Remodelista in Issue 39 – British Isles Design under Product Discoveries.

“Admired recently: A collection of wallpaper from Calico and Serbian designer Ana Kraš. The designs are hand-drawn by Kraš and resemble penmanship paper in soft, alternating colors. Named Mira and Miloš, after her mother and father, respectively, the collection is deeply personal…

The Mira & Miloš Collection is featured above.

If you’re already considering statement wallpaper, it’s safe to say you aren’t afraid of taking design risks. Eccentric patterns and bold colors are the perfect way to show off your style, whether you paper an entire room or opt for an accent wall.

Take your decor one step further with the ultimate in glam decor: gold wallpaper. Here are 15 gilded designs that are big on glitz without going overboard.

(2/15) Satori Plateau Wallpaper – Dripping in gold. Literally.
(5/15) Wabi Cloud Wallpaper – An otherworldly take on cloud formations, this gold-and-white design takes a bathroom with white fixtures to the next (very glamorous) level.
(8/15) Cirrus Horizon Wallpaper – The perfect matte gold wallpaper.

Architectural Digest is doing an A-Z guide to Salone del Mobile – comprising the faces, places, and trends of one of the world’s biggest design fairs, Salone del Mobile Milano, which took place in April…

Continuing with their investigation of the boundaries between art and architecture, Mustonen and Arsham collaborated with Calico Wallpaper on a collection titled Topographies, which was launched during Milan Design Week. Calico has long been a champion of using modern technology to expand traditional practices, and the brand’s focus aligned nicely this year with Snarkitecture’s dexterity with material, and their practice of interpreting it in new ways.

Topographies explored excavation as an architetural process by using stacks of paper torn by hand to reveal hidden layers that hinted at the aging process of layered wallpaper…

The Copes… partnered with Hudson Woods, a cluster of high-design cabins in the Catskills conceptualized by Drew Lang, to host a temporary installation. Over the course of two days, the design couple swathed a minimalist cabin (there are several, of varying architectural styles, on premises) with a dip-dyed ombré linen.

Photography by Matthew Williams

Calico Wallpaper just recently unveiled Aura, its latest collection of wallpaper during this year’s Sight Unseen OFFSITE. The New York brand was inspired by energy fields that surround us but are not seen so they experimented with aura photography, which visually captures the electromagnetic field surrounding a person and produces ethereal gradients of color. They took the results and turned them into a series of wallpaper that will conjure various feelings and emotions based on color psychology…

Aura in Ajna, Svad, Mani, Mula, Saha, Anahata, and Vishu are shown above (from left to right)
Install imagery by Adam Ryder

K is for Kintsugi
Inspired by kintsugi, a 500-year-old Japanese technique in which old broken pottery is repaired with metallic lacquer, the Satori non-repeating paper is quietly marbled. “Muted tones are amenable to a space you would actually want to inhabit,” said Rhode Island School of Design’s Martin Smick, who teaches wallpaper as art.

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Capitalize on a common theme
The Satori kintsugi wallpaper and the National Gallery’s portrait print speak to each other in hushed tones about the hand of the artist, and the woman’s skin picks up the Echo’s peachy hues. “I would install the portrait paper at the ned of a long hallway with the side walls washed in the softness and shimmer of the kintsugi,” said Boston designer Melissa Hammond

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Satori Echo is shown above.

19/20 Calico Topographies Wallpaper

Despite the June Gloom, summer is really, finally here. And considering that fact, your home likely needs a solid design refresh. luckily, there are plenty of new products worthy of your attention, knowledge, and ultimate purchase…

Topographies Winter is shown above.

If you’re a fan of aura photography, we’ve found the wallpaper for you. Brooklyn-based bespoke wallpaper company Calico Wallpaper is launching a new line called Aura. As the name suggests, the collection is inspired by unseen energy fields and incorporates aura photography in a series of digital wallpaper designs…

Aura in Ajna, Svad, and Mula are shown above.

NYCxDesign, colloquially known as New York Design Week, is once again off and running. The event, which opened Wednesday, technically runs through May 24. In other words? The week may be winding down, but for those enthralled by all things design, there’s still plenty of time to see and be seen. Above, as a jumping-off guide, to further pique your interest, we’ve rounded up some of our personal favorites. Across the board, minimalist tendencies marry with detail-oriented craftmanship. each piece, whether it’s a collaboration or part of an actual exhibition, is truly the sum of its parts. But don’t just take our word for it, click your way trough the snapshots of the innovative installations and memorable collections currently on view.

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Calico Wallpaper’s Collaborations
Woodlands, Fields, Moors by Faye Toogood, pictured here, is an immersive mural experience. Nick and Rachel Cope, the husband-wife team behind Calico, are also debuting a collaboration with design world darling Ana Kraš. Kraš work is titled Mira & Miloš.

Mira & Miloš Vetar and Woodlands Fields Moors in Moors are shown above.

Collective Design opened today for its fifth fair focused on 20th-and 21st century design with 28 exhibitors. Founded by architect and interior designer Steven Learner specifically for the design and architectural community, the fair will host galleries, designers, and commercial brands from May 3 to May 7…

Other highlights included new iterations of Apparatus’s, Stickbulb’s, and Calico Wallpaper’s offerings from Milan Design Week, as well as the Noguchi Museum’s Waiting Room installation…

Mira & Miloš in Vetar & Tvid and Woodlands, Fields, Moors Moors are shown above.

The fifth edition of the Collective Design Fair opens today in New York City with a roster of 30 galleries showing contemporary design work from around the world. Surface Magazine editors stopped by yesterday’s preview and selected ten of their favorite objects from the fair, which runs through Sunday, May 7.

Woodlands, Fields, Moors in the colorway Moors is currently on display at Collective Design Fair.

Photography by Nick Hughes/Yellowtrace

Calico Wallpaper

The folks at Brooklyn-based Calico Wallpaper were way out ahead of the trend towards marble wallpaper, and their designs are still some of my favorites. Their original collection includes the marbelized paper pictured above, and their Inverted Spaces Collection, featured in a couple of the rooms in the slideshow up top, has swirly, gold-and-silver touched patterns that resemble stone but also conjure up images of the heavens. These are also murals, available in custom sizes.

Wabi Cloud; Inverted Spaces Andromeda, Orion; and Lunaris Midnight are shown above.

Calico Wallpaper is excited to announce that our Satori Collection has been chosen by the jury of the Architizer A+ Awards as the winner of the Finishes- Wall Coverings & Ceilings category.

We may have already named our favorite 10 installations seen during Milan Design Week 2017, but in reality, that list could easily have been 20 (or 30) as there were feasts for the eyes just about everywhere we looked. Today, we showcase the rest of the best spotted in the various design districts, historic sites, and the Milano fairgrounds, home of Salone del Mobile.

Calico Wallpaper
The wallpaper concern’s new collaborations were installed exhibit-style in a gallery space of the Brera district. The biggest standout? In our opinion, it was Snarkitecture‘s Topographies, which looks like a three-dimensional torn-paper composition from afar but up close, is actually a two-dimensional pixelated wall covering.

Topographies Winter; Microcosmos Umbra & Plume are shown above.

Two of her introductions – the wallpaper she designed with Calico and the handmade quilts she stitched for Once Milano (they’re hanging in BDDW) – reflect one of Toogood’s most personal interests: painting. “There is a freedom in this way of working, by hand painting, and I enjoy that very direct sense of craft, without any technology,” she says. For both projects she worked directly on canvas, building up images through appliqué on the quilts, and then encasing a room in her brushstroke renditions of the English countryside, for Calico. “I felt it quite wonderful to literally bring the countryside inside.”

Woodlands, Fields, Moors in Fields is shown above.

Calico Wallpaper’s exhibition “Imagined Landscape” offers a series of wall murals by cutting-edge designers, like BCXSY’s delicate Microcosmos, Ana Kraš’s Mira & Miloš Collection, Snarkitecture’s Topographies Collection, and the whimsical Woodlands, Fields, Moors Collection by Faye Toogood, the British designer whose work seems to be all over Milan this year.

Woodlands, Fields, Moors Fields is shown above.

Calico Walpaper’s new launches this year includes Snarkitecture’s architectural torn paper wall covering… and a bucolic scene by Faye Toogood.

…In the confines of Rosanna Orlandi’s creative sanctuary, Sé has styled an apartment furnished top to toe with its products. The space includes fabrics by Dedar, and a new design by BCXSY for Calico Wallpaper.

Mira, Roze; Woodlands, Fields, Moors Fields; and Microcosmos Plume are shown above.

Some subjects in art never cease to be reinterpreted. One such everlasting muse? The landscape. For Brooklyn-based Calico Wallpaper’s Imagined Landscape presentation in Milan’s Brera Design District this week – their first ever stand-alone exhibition for Milan Design Week – the husband-and-wife duo asked four of their favorite creatives to turn their personalized riffs on landscapes into digitally printed wallpapers…

Microcosmos Umbra, Plume; Topographies Winter; Microcosmos Crest; and Fields, Woodlands, Moors Fields are shown above.

Aurora Ray is featured in the article “Destination: Los Angeles” in Surface Magazine’s Online March 2017 issue

Megan Hopp, an interior designer with Homepolish, used abstract custom wallpaper with a cosmic theme in lavender and silver to enliven a small, plain bedroom in an East Village apartment she decorated for a client last year… The print, a metallic wash from Calico Wallpaper’s Inverted Spaces collection, takes up two walls in the bedroom and cost about $4,000. “It was a big price tag, but we all agreed that it really is a work of art on its own,” Ms. Hopp said. “We kept every other piece really neutral – no pattern, no color, nothing, an absolutely clean canvas – so as to let this glorious paper do its thing.”

Inverted Spaces Andromeda is shown above

In one of Tribeca’s most iconic buildings, Los Angeles firm Consort eschews the traditional masculine retreat in favor of a sophisticated, expectedly bold living space.

Aurora Peat is shown above

Brooklyn-based Calico wallpaper devised a bright blue mural for another bedroom. “We wanted one room that had some very rich color, and so we worked with Calico on this paper, which is based on Japanese shibori technique,” says Behun.

Custom color Satori in a custom substrate is shown above.

Aurora Ray and Cirrus Vapor are shown above

Eschewing traditional retail venues, company founder David Alhadeff established his new L.A. outpost in a private residence in the hills above West Hollywood… Open by appointment only, Casa Perfect beckons visitors with the promise of a more intimate interaction with the company’s wide-ranging collections… Casa Perfect’s inaugural installation features a variety of product introductions dispersed throughout the four-bedroom home and its patios and gardens.

Aurora Ray and Cirrus Vapor are shown above