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
In a peculiar yet perfect pairing, the vibrant textiles, fabrics, upholstery, and wallpaper in situ are either original works of art or inspired facsimiles. Either way, the results are gallery-worthy.
Calico Wallpaper’s new sister company, Cope, has created a painterly textile with a soft splashed-water motif. The fluid brushstroke-like pattern — printed on natural Belgian linen — is a nod the Brooklyn-based studio’s hands-on process.
Featured in the article ‘Art de Triomphe’ in An Interior Magazine’s Spring 2018 issue
Nearly five years ago in a small Brooklyn studio, husband-and-wife duo Rachel and Nick Cope came up with a concept for custom wallpaper. Their designs incorporate Japanese and Turkish marbling techniques that looked more like large-scale mural abstractions than wall-coverings. Together, they found a new way to elevate interior spaces beyond the borders of a frame. Today, the couple has channeled that same artistic vision in the launch of their textile company–simply called, Cope.
Featured in ‘Cope: Handmade for the Home’ from Vue Magazine’s Spring 2018 issue
Calico Wallpaper’s Aurora ‘Petal’ and Microcosmos ‘Crest’ is featured in urbis magazine’s December 2017-January 2018 “The Best of 2017” guide.
We’re so excited to see our co-founder Rachel’s alma mater – RISD – featuring her work via Calico Wallpaper in their RISD x Miami Round up.
Photography by Kevin Lu
Images courtesy of Friedman Benda
Calico Wallpaper teamed up with Faye Toogood to create Woodlands, part of a series that showcases the designer’s training in fine art. Each began as a panoramic painting, which was carefully translated onto a linen substrate.
Nothing adds character to a home like textiles… Cope, the new line of pillows and yardage from the power couple behind Calico Wallpaper, is taking home linens to the next, next level. Styles include those made with Japanese and Turkish painting techniques that go far beyond your classic shibori, and lend an inimitable texture to throws and swaths of fabric alike. The textiles are perfect for homemade curtains or tablecloths, but then again, we might just go the hanging tapestry route and use some fabric as a one-of-a-kind piece of art. It’s certainly gallery-worthy! Scroll through to see what we mean…
Friedman Benda is hosting a show of new work by eight international designers at its Design Miami booth. Titled ‘Crosscurrents’, the exhibition includes abstract vases and mirrors by Marcel Wanders, ‘Detonado Buffet’ and ‘Pirarucu’ sofas by Fernando and Humberto Campana, and a coffee table in marble and brass by Chilean studio Gt2P. (slide 12 of 19)
Lindsey Adelman’s new lighting is on view as part of the Curio programme at Design Miami this year. The eclectic installation of mobiles, titled ‘The Edge of What We Know,’ echoes the New York designer’s personal interest in nature and science. (slide 13 of 19)
Photography by James Harris
Splotches of watercolour and wildflower blooms are among the motifs seen in this collection of textiles created by Calico Wallpaper’s new sister company, Cope.
The recently launched brand – which will exclusively produce fabric and soft home furnishings – takes its name from Calico founders Nick and Rachel Cope.
Based in Brooklyn, New York, the husband-and-wife duo is recognised for their printed wall coverings that often play with colour, texture, and metallics…
Welcome Cope: a new studio venture for the Red Hook-based designers. Don’t call it a diffusion line; instead, Cope expands on Calico’s patterns, transposing them onto soft goods, starting with plush pillows and wispy drapery fabric. ‘We wanted to use our family name to create a legacy by selling more diverse products and maybe products that are more accessible, not just in terms of cost but also in that they would be able to be ordered directly through us over the internet,’ says Nick…
If you love wallpaper like we do (i.e. a lot), you’ve undoubtedly heard of custom wallpaper company Calico Wallpaper. Founded in 2013 by husband and wife team Rachel and Nick Cope, Calico is known for elevating basic wall coverings into veritable art–the brand uses dip-dying techniques, digital technologies, and has even made a foray into aura wallpaper. Now Rachel and Nick are turning their creative efforts in a slightly different direction with the launch of their textile and soft goods company, Cope…
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.
Nick & Rachel Cope share a predilection for illustrating the artistic process through custom-printed wall coverings. Their partnership veers into the spectral realm with Aura, a collection that conjures the luminous energy said to surround a person or object. “I stumbled upon an aura photograph that Nick had taken as a child,” says Rachel. “The subtle interplay of colors was so striking that I immediately wanted to explore the medium as inspiration.” Digitally printed on Type II vinyl, the radiant compositions come in seven variations, each corresponding to different feelings, as determined by color psychology. And they’re all sold by the square foot.
Calico Wallpaper’s Aura Collection is featured in Interior Design’s October 2017 fall market tabloid
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.
…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.
Rachel and Nick Cope, founders of Calico Wallpaper, are mildly horrified when asked to pick a favourite project. Every one of the couple’s luxury wallcoverings is a unique installation, based on original artwork, tailored and tinted to fit an individual interior. How can they choose?…
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.
Textiles shown in the photos above will be available through Cope
Photography by David Chow
Featured in Forward March: The Design Companies Conquering New Ground in The New York Time’s T Magazine’s September 24, 2017 Issue
“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.
Karlie Kloss‘s new Kode With Klossy office space received the Homepolish touch…
The “call room” — a telephone room and fitting room in one — is a small room off of the office that Kloss can use to change between events. “Since it was a small room, we decided to wallpaper the walls in a gorgeous Calico wallpaper and added curtains so Karlie could use it for fittings and getting ready for shoots,” says Rich. “This little room is so dreamy!”
Cirrus Vapor is shown above and currently installed in the “call room” at Klossy HQ
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.
On June 10 in LA, for the first time ever, we hosted In goop Health, an all-day wellness summit that brought together some of our most trusted doctors and experts…
Aura Mula is shown above; it was used as the backdrop for the In goop Health panels
When Josh and Ivy Elrod, New York transplants to Nashville, decided to open their second shop in the hip city, the duo knew they didn’t want a traditional storefront…
Purveyors include more well-known brands (Muuto, Herman Miller, and Eskayel), makers familier on the design show circuit (Fort Standard, Areaware, Chen & Kai, and Calico Wallpaper) as well as smaller vendors like local KUMP Studios.
Wilder Etudes opened Saturday, June 24, 2017 at
1200 Villa Place #301
Nashville, TN
Aurora Ray is shown above.
Compared with the tastefully neutral interiors of so many new condominium buildings, the latest model unit to open at 432 Park Avenue comes as a jolt…
Satori in a custom colorway and substrate is shown above. Kelly Behun has replaced the usual dutch leaf substrate with a silver leaf substrate and chosen a custom blue wash as the colorway.
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.
A Kingpin of the Brooklyn design scene and founder of New York gallery The Future Perfect has fashioned a creative showcase with home comforts in the Hollywood Hills…
Cirrus Vapor, Fragments in Gypsum, Ore, & Granite, and Aurora Ray are 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…
Japanese cycling company tokyobike has revealed a collaboration with three award-winning designers for its inaugural set of limited-edition bicycles. The independent brand, based in Tokyo suburb Yanaka, looked to Calico Wallpaper, OTHR co-founder Joe Doucet, and Everythign Elevated to create a new collection of bicycles – the Designer Series – that translates hallmark of each practice onto an unexplored form. The collection will be available at tokyobike’s flagship store in New York City starting on May 10.
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.
In the girls’ bedroom, sophisticated wallpaper takes the edge off the hot-pink color scheme…
Night in a custom colorway is shown in the article “By The Bay” in the Spring 2017 issue of Sacramento Home.
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
For design couple Nick and Rachel Cope, wallpaper is never just wallpaper. In their hands, ancient decorative techniques and modern-day technology are melded together in radical ways to create hypnotic, ethereal environments. ‘What interests us is that wallpaper can make a space feel immersive, or it can be like a piece of art on the wall,’ says Rachel of the founding principle behind Calico Wallpaper, the company she and her husband launched five years ago out of their apartment in Brooklyn…