Wallpaper and Interior Design

The All-Gray Room Is Losing Ground To Pattern

In short: The all-gray room has stopped being the safe default — 2026 color and interiors coverage keeps naming the same fatigue: designers and homeowners are done with flat gray walls and are re...

Wallpaper Now Belongs In Small, Considered Doses

In short: The more sophisticated move with wallpaper right now isn't wrapping a whole room — it's using one considered pattern in a single, deliberate spot: a ceiling, a powder room, a niche, the...

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...

Does A Printed Pattern Need Real Paint's Motion Underneath It

In short: This season's designers are naming marbled, paint-in-motion wallpaper as one of 2026's strongest patterns — and the real question underneath the trend is whether a print that only imita...

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...

Wallpaper's Effect On Mood Is Now Measurable

In short: two new wallpaper collections launched this year treat a room's mood as something you can actually design for, not just describe after the fact. Architect Suchi Reddy built her new Cali...