Designers Nicholas and Rachel Cope of Calico Wallpaper draw inspiration from all kinds of unlikely places. To inform their latest work – a silk triptych commissioned by the design gallery Friedman Benda – the couple… riffed on a traditional dyeing technique for a pattern that nods to the earth’s crust…
Custom batik on silk artwork, exemplary of our bespoke services
The powder room is wrapped in Calico’s Lunaris Fog.
Lunaris Fog is featured in the special 120th anniversary issue of House Beautiful
Brooklyn-based designers Rachel and Nick Cope have created a line of bespoke, handmade wallpapers that are consumer friendly…
Night Aubergine and Wabi Cloud featured in the article “Art al Fresco” in the October 2016 issue of the New York Observer
Fulham Road’s latest luxury interiors addition is the elegant Sé showroom… Special additions that adorn the retail space include Luke Irwin rugs and New York-based wallpaper brand Calico’s latest ‘Satori’ metallic print, which acts as an artistic backdrop for the collections.
Satori Plateau is shown above
In hindsight, it feels almost like fate that Nick and Rachel Cope would end up in the sprawling, historic Red Hook loft they now call home. After all, where else in New York City could they have found the room to showcase not one but six of the wallpaper collections they’ve created since 2012 as partners in the Brooklyn-based Calico? But in fact, the couple moved in years before they began working together, meaning that the walls were once white despite now seeming as if they’ve been adorned with marbled metallics, soothing ombrés, and dripping gold leaf for practically ever…
Wabi River (slides 1, 3), Lunaris Midnight (slides 7-9), Willow Blush (slide 11), Satori Fir (slide 13), and Aurora Ray (slide 16) are shown above
A podcast series taking you behind the scenes and inside the homes of New York City’s most influential Creators as they reveal their personal soundtrack to the city. Our guests this week are the founders of Calico Wallpaper, Rachel and Nick Cope.
Show hosted by Jonah Bayer
Lunaris Midnight shown above
11 Great Wallpapers: Do you have any wallpaper in your home? We’ve always rented our apartments, so we never have, but I really love the idea. Here are a bunch of pretty ones…
Aurora Azure is shown above
Fabrica has used some of Calico’s sumptuous coverings to rethink the humble lunch box: Tomomi Maezawa’s Sculptural Lunch is wrapped in ‘Willow Celeste’ wallpaper and held together by a thin wire structure, while Mariana Fernandes’ Wrapping Food uses marbled wallpaper to emphasise the shape of a traditional lunch of ham and cheese…
Once, custom wallpaper had to be painted entirely by hand. But a new cadre of designers is offering digitally printed, mural-like scenes that can be endlessly manipulated…
A couple before they were partners in design, Nick Cope and Rachel Mosler founded Calico Wallpaper together two years ago in the wake of Hurricane Sandy…
Mudejar tiles, the appetites of Francis Cardinal Spellman and a colossal sculpture by Ron Arad made from a whorl of steel rods that cost more than $1 million are just a few of the colliding, often ravishing visions now on view in the elegant spaces that once held the Urban Center in the Villard Housesat Madison Avenue and 51st Street — the home, for the next month, of the Kips Bay Decorator Show House…
Hurricane Sandy proved a blessing in disguise for Nick Cope and Rachel Mosler. The Red Hook-based couple were unable to access their offices for months, where she works as an art therapist and he as an interior designer and builder…