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{from Elle Decoration May 2008}The panels of Sarah Dorkenwald and Ruth Spitzer's Wallfurniture LC2 wallpaper {above} will instantly open up a small space into a view of an ultra-stylish and modern lounge . . .
Also like the effect of using one panel of Tracy Kendall's Plates wallpaper, installed as artwork next to a powder blue Smeg and metal colander.
Newly revealed in Milan, Couture, Dutch designer Marcel Wanders' collection of wallpapers for Graham & Brown.
{from Graham & Brown:}
"Couture . . . is a collection of eight striking wallpaper designs. Each pattern in the Couture range is named after a glamorous woman, or man, with an inspirational name; Suzanne, Alice, Grace, Kelly, Audrey, Isabella, Stella and Henry."
{from Marcel Wanders:}
“I love the hard definition of architectural space. I love the naked fragility of the human body. Unfortunately the naked human body cannot live in clean architectural space.
We need interiors because architecture is too technically hard and rational to live in. Therefore I love to blur the boundaries between architecture and interior, between walls and furniture, between furniture and fashion.
As our fashion dresses our bodies, wallpaper dresses our walls. Wallpaper and fashion mediate between our naked bodies and architecture. In this way, architecture and man can live together with the sophisticated illusion of Couture.”
Flying models not included.
{Special thanks to Mark for sending along the link}
Wallpaper continues to be an inspiration in design, with creative and innovative new patterns emerging and many and varied ways to install it. In the hands of artists, who can often be counted on to push the boundaries of convention, it can become a creative force.
Rollout includes Fog Cherry Blossoms {above} by photographer Karin Bubas, and {if you're feeling very adventurous} Sultry Hair, by Andrio Abero {below} as part of their Artist Series custom wallpapers.
While both of these designs may be slightly too avant-garde and edgy for my tastes, I do love their sense of adventure.
Abero, a graduate from the Art Institute of Seattle, and also a DJ, has been influential in the Seattle music scene for years and now helps shape the design world with 33rpm, which he established in 2000.
{beautiful example of graphic work by 33rpm}
You may have seen this image recently, but I'm in love with it . . . Shot by Emma at Björklund & Wingqvist, "one of Stockholm's oldest and best stocked wallpaper shops," it illustrates a beautiful ceiling installation of wallpaper by Lisa Bengtssonsa, who is also amazingly talented in her own right.
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I'm quite taken with the idea of using wallpaper to create a charming statement panel, as seen here, using Pomp 3500 wallpaper by Brian Yates.
{images: Living etc. February 2008; photography by Mel Yates; styling by Portland Mitchell}
Deborah Bowness' gorgeous new wallpaper, Picture Wall, is printed with images of vintage art and takes all the guesswork out of hanging arrangements and leaves no holes in your walls.
Palace Papers has combined my obsession with wallpaper and antlers in their deerly pattern.
Still searching for the perfect wallpaper and have yet to come across anything I want to commit to. But inadvertently came across theses pairings of wallpaper patterns and bird paintings . . .
If you're not ready to commit to wallpaper or haven't the time to paint, these hand-printed wallpaper panels may be just the thing to brighten up your space.
If you're looking for an alternative to traditional wallpaper and would like something a little edgier (or a lot), consider Trustworth's Studios' Bat and Poppy (above).
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