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Amazing Accents: Beautiful Wallpapers To Enhance Your Home
Slide Nr 1Outdated? Nope. A hassle? No way. Boring? Not a chance! Due to advancements in materials and technology, today’s wallpapers are durable, sustainable and easy to hang. And thanks to these inspired creatives dreaming up beautiful designs, you can find eye-catching wallpaper in a staggering array of patterns and colours that will transform any space.
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Slide Nr 2Founded 15 years ago by mother-daughter entrepreneurs Yvonne and Rebecca Drury, MissPrint has evolved into a respected British design studio without losing sight of its original aesthetic and sustainable ethos. Their patterns are still hand-drawn by Rebecca, tending strongly towards botanical motifs and geometric prints in arresting colour palettes, and are printed on PEFC or FSC certified paper with water-based inks – not to mention entirely made in the UK.
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Slide Nr 3Cutting-edge and trend-forward, Liverpool-based Murals Wallpaper keep an eye on their carbon footprint by printing with water-based ink on paper from FSC regulated forests, but also by producing each wallpaper to order as a way of minimising waste. Hence they sell by the metre rather than by roll. Their specialty – as one might guess – are breathtaking, digitally printed mural wallpapers with exquisite high-definition detail, and their extensive collection runs the gamut from dinosaur and fairy tale prints for children, to watercolours, artistic reproductions, faux wall material effects and full-scale photo prints, alongside more conventional wallpaper patterns.
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Amazing Accents: Beautiful Wallpapers To Enhance Your Home.
Slide Nr 4Artist Sian Zeng was born in China, raised in Hungary and now lives and works in the UK, giving the award-winning Central Saint Martins grad a uniquely international style. In her London studio, Sian creates intricate and imaginative designs heavily inspired by flora, fauna and landscapes, from mist-blanketed Chinese mountains in European-style illustrations, to toile-esque woodland vistas inhabited by fantastical creatures. Designing a child’s dream room? Consider Sian’s line of magnetic prints, made with a magnetic liner and specially created magnets that allow children to interact with the wallpapers and tell their own stories again and again.
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Amazing Accents: Beautiful Wallpapers To Enhance Your Home.
Slide Nr 5Perhaps best known for their high-end paints in highly curated colours, British brand Farrow & Ball offer upscale wallpapers in an array of timeless designs. Beautiful, tactile and fully recyclable, their wallpapers are made by applying their own eco-friendly water-based paint onto sustainably sourced paper, with the final decorative elements applied by craftsmen using traditional artisanal methods. Check out their new metallic collection for prints that will truly make your walls shine.
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Amazing Accents: Beautiful Wallpapers To Enhance Your Home.
Slide Nr 6If you have Kensington taste and a Croydon wallet, look no further than Graham & Brown. With a classic aesthetic, textural finish and exquisite designs – from gothic damask to art deco fan prints and elegant Japanese-inspired florals, along with heritage patterns from their archives – these wallpapers wouldn’t look out of place even in the poshest London townhouse. Statement prints, like Resplendence with its perching peacocks and pearlescent finish, or Venetian featuring cascading flowers and subtle songbird cameos, are excellent choices if you’re aiming for something bold yet timeless.
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Amazing Accents: Beautiful Wallpapers To Enhance Your Home.
Slide Nr 8Over in the US, Flat Vernacular is all about regional products with green credentials: their FSC Certified paper is produced in New Jersey, their low VOC inks are supplied by independent New England fabricators, and their fabric grounds are made from organic flax and woven by a carbon-neutral manufacturer. And their designs? Original, dynamic, funky-chic motifs that elevate a room without taking themselves too seriously.
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Amazing Accents: Beautiful Wallpapers To Enhance Your Home.
Slide Nr 9Bit of a commitment-phobe? Want to spruce up your rental space without losing your security deposit? Chasing Paper creates peel-and-stick wallpapers that can easily be removed come moving day, or just whenever the spirit moves you. Designs run the gamut from retro florals to hip graphic patterns and playful prints ideal for a child’s room, and can make any space Instagram-ready in the time it takes you to open the app.
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Amazing Accents: Beautiful Wallpapers To Enhance Your Home.
Slide Nr 10It’s not every day you find wallpaper with an inspiring origin story, but AWB isn’t your everyday wallpaper brand. The company began when florist Ashley Woodson Bailey was left “bed-ridden with a broken back and shattered spirit” after a horrible car accident. Unable to work, she set about learning how to photograph flowers instead. Her signature “florography” evolved into collections of wallpaper and fabrics that are beautiful yet unusual, an age-old theme that still manage to surprise. These may be flowers for your walls, but wallflowers they are not.
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Amazing Accents: Beautiful Wallpapers To Enhance Your Home.
Slide Nr 11Flavor Paper is exactly what you might expect from a hip Brooklyn-based wallpaper brand – in the best way possible. They work with big-name artists to make “compelling conversational wallpaper” that’s nothing if not eye-catching. Among their most popular collections are Fempower, featuring bold designs by top female artists; Inkling, a line of updated marble prints made with latex hand-screened inks and metallic powders; and their series of tongue-in-cheek toile creations depicting iconic sights in beloved cities and neighbourhoods across the US, from Hollywood to New Orleans, the Bay Area and, of course, Brooklyn.
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Amazing Accents: Beautiful Wallpapers To Enhance Your Home.
Slide Nr 12Another Brooklyn-based wallpaper powerhouse to know is Grow House Grow, founded in 2007 by designer Katie Deedy using only what funds she could save from her bartending job. Today, her firm specialises in vivid and artistic prints, each of which tells a story: take, for instance, the Alexandria print (left) which evokes the legend of the ancient library, the Saint Helena print (right) inspired by tales of what really caused the great Napoleon Bonaparte’s demise, and the print Petticoat Palm (middle) which comes from a funny family anecdote about Deedy’s Cuban great-great-grandmother after the island won its independence from Spain.
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Amazing Accents: Beautiful Wallpapers To Enhance Your Home.
Slide Nr 13From grade school besties to designer duo, Christiana Coop and Aimee Lagos founded Hygge & West in 2008, and have been collaborating with artists and creatives all over the world to come up with fresh, modern designs ever since. Their high-quality wallpapers are screen-printed by hand in the US, and some of their patterns are also available as removable wallpaper tiles that can even be reused.
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Amazing Accents: Beautiful Wallpapers To Enhance Your Home.
Slide Nr 14With a breezy, natural colour palette and designs reminiscent of folk art, or the organic patterns of sea glass and driftwood, wallpapers by Portland, Oregon-based Juju Papers have an almost earthy feel to them – which, you might say, meshes with their eco-friendly ethos. Each hand-printed roll (usually made to order) is created using water-based inks on sustainably produced paper.
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Slide Nr 15Partners in business and in life, the designing duet behind West Coast-based Abnormals Anonymous share a wallpaper company, two sons and a pet parrot – but they don’t share their names. The mysterious couple find their muse in nature, with flowers, animals and marine life as recurring themes interpreted with whimsical yet sophisticated flair. Using non-solvent, VOC-free inks, and offering paper made from 31% post-consumer recycled materials, they’ve also got the eco-credentials to go along with their nature-inspired designs.
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Slide Nr 16Launched by artist Amy Mills in 2005, Paper Mills now operates out of California – a location that presents ecological challenges for a company that aims to “do no harm.” To meet those challenges, the brand hand-manufactures their wallpapers using post-consumer recycled paper and water-based VOC-free ink, while carefully managing their water waste – they’re down to less than 5 gallons a week. Amy hand-paints all of her designs, resulting in tactile and highly original wallpapers which can even be ordered in customised colours. [Photo: Adjara Group, Rooms Hotel Tiblisi. Pattern: Olivia]
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Slide Nr 17Aussie brand Milton & King specialise in vivid, on-trend wallpapers of the non-woven variety, which means they’re durable, easy to hang and a cinch to remove. Available only for direct-to-consumer purchase online (don’t worry, they ship globally), their eclectic wallpapers are dreamed up in collaboration with designers and artists around the world. See, for instance, the peppy Palm Springs print by British illustrator Jacqueline Colley (left), the wild Leopard pattern by Australian designers Kingdom Home (right) or the playful classic Huddy Dots (centre), a Milton & King original print.
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