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
Wallpaper* Online: In the Frame: Standout Designs from Around the Globe
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
Sight Unseen: Calico Wallpaper’s Envy-Inducing Airy Red Hook Loft
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
SONOS Listening Room: Calico Wallpaper
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
Wallpaper*: DDG’S XOCO 325 condo unveils a model unit
Chocolate may no longer fill the inside of 325 West Broadway, the former site of a brick chocolate factory in New York’s SoHo district, but its name, XOCO (the Catalan word for ‘chocolate’) 325, keeps the building’s legacy alive. DDG took over the building in 2012, transforming it into a 21-unit residential property in the heart of one of Manhattan’s chic-est neighborhoods…
Photography by Robert Granoff
Aurora Ray is shown above
dezeen: 12 Minimalist packaging designs that do a lot with a little
From artisanal boutique to superstores, the trend for Minimalist packaging design continues to pick up pace. We’ve rounded up 12 examples, including name-brand ketchup without the name, a CD packaged in bubble wrap, and a stylish kit for surviving the apocalypse… A simple marble effect gives these otherwise minimal chocolate bars a feeling of restrained luxury. Calico Wallpaper used the salts featured in Mast Brothers’ confectionery as materials to create the marbled packaging.
Custom artwork created for MAST Brothers Chocolate shown above
New York Magazine: This Airy Townhouse is Actually Only 11 Feet Wide
Architects Tal Schori and Rustam-Marc Mehta, who founded their firm, GRT Architects, in 2015, have been friends since the third grade… Here, their first residential project, the renovation of a very narrow townhouse in Fort Greene.
The 11-Foot Challenge: GRT changed the rectangular vestibule ceiling into an arched space to echo the entry doors. They worked with Calico Wallpaper to customize an ombre design that morphs from orange to lavender. “This was not only our first residential project, Schori says, “but also our first renovation.”
Aurora Ray is shown above
A Cup of Jo: 11 Great Wallpapers
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
Wallpaper* Handmade 2015: Eat me! Drink me! Tell me that you love me!
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…
New York Times T Magazine: The Top 10 Moments from Salone del Mobile 2015
Also at Rossana Orlandi, the Brooklyn wallpaper studio Calico debuted a new collaboration with the Amsterdam studio BCXSY, called Inverted Spaces, for which they used as source material Hubble Telescope photos downloaded from NASA’s free image bank…
New York Magazine: How a Converted Brooklyn Factory Turned Into a Family Home
On the occasion of Uhuru’s new store, I visited the Red Hook home that co-founder Bill Hilgendorf shares with his wife, Maria Cristina Rueda, and two children…
New York Times T Magazine: New Talent, New Work
Nick Cope, 32, and his wife Rachel, 33, founded Calico Wallpaper when Hurricane Sandy left them both out of work — and with enough free time to develop a technique for marbleizing large-scale papers…
Architectural Digest: Neil Patrick Harris Home
At their smartly renovated Harlem townhouse, actors Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka create a dashing sanctuary for raising their young family and hosting friends…
Martha Stewart Living: Nooks and Cubbies
The Wall Street Journal: A New Way To Get One-of-a-Kind Wallpaper
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…
Sight Unseen: Calico Wallpaper at Villa Lena
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…
New York Times: Rocking the Palazzo
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…
Vogue.com: Heirlooms of Tomorrow: Ten Young Contemporary Designer to Collect Today
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…