House Beautiful: Design Debrief

Calico Wallpaper introduces Cadence, a new collection created with Athena Calderone in her first foray into wallpaper design. Originally conceived for Calderone’s forthcoming Tribeca home, the pattern draws from the quiet beauty of aged materials, combining hand-rendered artwork by a French artisan with layered scans of natural textures. Offered in six nuanced colorways—from whisper-soft alabaster to deep oxblood and tobacco—Cadence reads as both tactile and restrained, bringing Calderone’s refined sense of materiality to the wall in a way that feels timeless and deeply atmospheric.