Wallpaper and Interior Design

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.

An Outside Eye Beats A Career Pattern-Designer's Formula

In short: Fromental, one of the wallcovering world's most established hand-painted houses, just handed its first wallpaper collection to a fashion designer with zero prior wallcovering experience...

A Personal Pattern Beats A Safe Repeat

In short: the biggest 2026 wallpaper trends aren't about a bigger print or a louder color — they're about a pattern that carries a real story instead of playing it safe. Five designers, from bl...

The Best Patterns Start Personal, Not Mass-Market

Can a bespoke wallpaper pattern earn a permanent collection before mass design does? Angela Simeone on original, artist-made pattern-making.

A Real Painting Beats A Borrowed Art Movement

In short: Business of Home's May 2026 roundup of new wallcoverings puts two very different kinds of "art-inspired" wallpaper side by side: Harlequin's Pintura, which pays homage to Fauvism, the e...