Wallpaper and Interior Design

Toile Medium Sky Blue artist-designed wallpaper by Nashville artist Angela Simeone, shown in a room setting.

Specific Knowledge Is What a Pattern Actually Carries

Luxury wallpaper 2026: why a pattern drawn from one artist's specific, first-hand knowledge reads differently on a wall than a repeat off a swatch book.

Atelier Blue Haze artist-made wallpaper by Nashville painter Angela Simeone, shown as a single tile of the repeat, its painted washes visible in the pattern.

Texture Reads Differently When It Actually Happened

Fall 2026 wallcoverings are all about texture. There are three different ways a wall gets it, and only one of them starts with a real painted surface.

Artist-designed luxury textured wallpaper by Nashville painter Angela Simeone, a pattern set into repeat from one of her own original paintings.

Whose Hand Made the Pattern Is a Fair Question to Ask

Heritage houses now sell wallcoverings on personal story and the hand. One question separates a real artist-made pattern from a well-told one — ask it.

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A Wallpaper Pattern Can Name Its Original Painting

Wallpaper houses increasingly say a pattern is "based on an artist's paintings." Here is the question a designer should ask to find out whether it actually is.

Atelier Blue Haze Medium artist-designed wallpaper by Nashville painter Angela Simeone, a pattern drawn from a real painted surface

Real Paint on a Wall Has Nothing to Imitate

Designers say faux wood, brick and stone prints cheapen a wall. Artist-made wallpaper drawn from a real painted surface has no material to imitate at all.

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Wrapping a Small Room Changes Where You Are Standing

Immersion in a papered room comes from covering every surface, not from pattern size. What 2026's all-over application trend actually does to a small room.

Scale Makes a Wall Loud, and Source Makes It Art

Trade recaps keep calling oversized wallcoverings works of art. What actually earns that word — and why a pattern's origin matters more than its scale.

A single tile of the Atelier Berry Silvered Champagne wallcovering, an artist-designed pattern drawn from an original painting by Nashville artist Angela Simeone

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Hospitality Design Moves Art Into the Wall Itself

Art in hotels is moving from applied to embedded - sculptural walls, dimensional surfaces. Where a flat, artist-designed wallcovering still earns its place.

Artist-designed textured wallpaper pattern in berry and silvered champagne, drawn from an original painting by Nashville artist Angela Simeone

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Nature's Patterns Have a Measurable Effect on a Room

Fractal research says a wallcovering's pattern can measurably ease stress — what the science says, what it asks of a pattern, and where hand-made work fits.

Angela Simeone Atelier Berry Silvered Champagne wallpaper tile, painted brushwork reproduced at wall scale as an awarded wallcovering category

Brushwork on the Wall Is Now an Awarded Category

A gestural, brushwork-driven wallcovering collection just took a trade Best of Year honour. What that says about painterly wallpaper as a design category.