Wallpaper and Interior Design

A Wallpaper Made to Look Old, and the Difference Between Patina and Costume

Aged-looking wallpaper is everywhere in 2026. What separates real patina from a pattern in costume — and why the origin of the artwork decides which one you get.

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.

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.

Presence Is What a Wallcovering Has When Pattern Runs Out

Designers say 2026 wallpaper is less about pattern and more about presence. Here is what actually creates it — and why a pattern's origin decides the answer.

Does a Wallcovering Need to Start as a Real Painting to Matter?

Fashion designer Harris Reed hand-painted a tiger motif for his own runway show before it was scaled into a wallcovering collection with Fromental. It raises a real question for anyone shopping art...

Is The Wallpaper Feature Wall Over? Designers Say Wrap The Room

In short: The wallpaper feature wall is losing its argument. In Livingetc's 2026 trend report, designers say the shift out loud: pattern now wraps the room and sets one enveloping mood rather tha...

A Wallcovering Needs A Real Source, Not Just A Brief

In short: This season's biggest wallcovering honors keep naming the same thing: a pattern built from a real, lived source reads differently than one built from a brief alone. Architect Michael Fo...

Real Texture Is What Makes Wallpaper Feel Grounded

In short: This season's leading wallpaper designers are converging on the same point: a pattern needs real, felt texture — not just a good print — to read as grounded and considered rather than d...

A Painted Surface Is What Gives Wallpaper Its Soul

In short: A wallcovering needs an actual painted or textured surface underneath it to read as having real depth and "soul" — a flat print can approximate the idea, but designers this season say i...

A Real Hand-Painted Archive Beats A Pattern Designed From A Brief

Scott Pask brought his Broadway scenic-design archive to wallpaper. Why a real hand-painted source — from any discipline — outweighs a pattern made to order.