Articles

In-depth guides and practical articles on designer wallcoverings.

• The reissue economy: why the archive is the busiest studio in the business Some of the most talked-about patterns of the year are older than the designers selling them. Inside the commercial logic that makes the back catalog the front of the shelf.
• Reading the fairs: what Heimtextil and Maison&Objet signal months before the shelf The year's directions are visible at two European trade fairs long before they reach a showroom. A field guide to reading them, and the lag between the stand and the wall.
• The color-of-the-year machine, and how a forecast reaches your wall An annual color announcement travels a long way before it becomes a roll you can buy. A look at the forecasting apparatus, and how much of it you should believe.
• Grasscloth is having a decade, not a moment Woven natural wallcovering keeps returning while flashier trends burn out. Why texture outlasts pattern, and what its persistence says about where taste is going.
• Peel-and-stick grew up: the removable-wallcovering shift Removable wallcovering went from novelty to a genuine category. What changed in the material, who is buying it, and where it still falls short of the paste-up original.
• The mural wall: how digital printing changed what a pattern can be For two centuries a room-wrapping scenic meant Zuber and a fortune. Large-format digital printing broke the repeat, and with it the economics of the custom wall.