Brooklyn-based Calico Wallpaper began haphazardly during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy when Rachel Mosler and Nick Cope were stranded in their loft and out of work for a month. Instead of sitting around, Mosler got inspired to marbleize paper. Hundreds of prototype swatches later, they decided to expand them and turn them into wallpaper.

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Metallic Marble Wallpaper by Calico Wallpaper

The following post is brought to you by  Ketel One® Vodka . Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design. Back in February we posted a call for entries for The Modern Craft Project, presented by Ketel One® Vodka in partnership with Wallpaper* magazine

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Throwing The First Stitch: Paul Cunningham

The following post is brought to you by  Ketel One® Vodka . Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design. Back in February we posted a call for entries for The Modern Craft Project, presented by Ketel One® Vodka in partnership with Wallpaper* magazine. They were looking for modern craftspeople who push the limits of traditional craft, true innovators who could also represent Ketel One’s tradition of making high-quality products.

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Throwing The First Stitch: Paul Cunningham

2013 saw the forth annual celebration of craftsmanship in the form of Wallpaper* Handmade, where designers, craftspeople and manufacturers are brought together and commissioned to create one-off pieces especially for the exhibition. I loved these table lights, called ‘Bruno’ by Karim Rashid ; part of the Love collection made by Verreum . More lighting from Norwegian designer Oyvind Wyller and Magnor . In Darkness is handblown into a shape that means light is filtered through tinted glass and therefore doesn’t destroy the ambience by being too bright. The cord is neatly integrated into the hanging of the shade. Shadow by Sebastian Bergne with Verreum is a series of mirrored glass, thermically insulated tableware

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Milan 2013: Wallpaper* Handmade

Wall decals are a great alternative to wallpaper as they don’t damage your walls when they’re removed and you can change them the moment you get tired of your handiwork with little effort. While there are a lot of wall decals out there, it’s harder to find simple modular shapes that can create modern patterns like the Removable Wall Patterns from the Salt Lake City-based MUR . Currently the company sells triangles (hooray!) in a small and large size, each available in eight colors. Use their gallery to figure out what pattern you want to go with and let your imagination go wild coming up with your very own color scheme.

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Removable Triangle Wall Decals by MUR

San Francisco-based illustrator and artist Lisa Congdon  has created a new line of wallpaper for Hygge & West . The triangles pattern is my personal favorite. Lisa also has an awesome blog , if you don’t know about it – go read it here . I’ve been a long-time fan of Lisa’s work , but as of late, I feel like she’s really been hitting it (extra far) out of the park

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Lisa Congdon Designs Wallpaper for Hygge & West

I just discovered the surface designs of Spanish art and design studio TODO MUTA . They are a relatively new design company based in Seville that creates illustrative patterns and prints for wallpaper, vinyls, prints, textiles and just about anything else you can think about slapping a pattern on. They even developed a line of limited edition ceramics . I love their work because it’s fun enough for kids, especially the wall drawings, but I can see that if used in the right way, the repeating patterns work well for adult rooms, too. Mix them with fun colorful fabrics and you’ve got a more artsy look — it’s exceptionally versatile

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TODA MUTA Illustrative Surface Designs

Kirath Ghundoo is launching two new collections of wallpaper after her last really amazing collection called Mix ‘n’ Match made some waves. First, MisMatch is a geometric series of sustainable wallpapers in three colorways.

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MisMatch and Bespoke Wallpapers by Kirath Ghundoo

Last week, I posted a Love This Look? post about wallpaper accent walls. Ever since then, I’ve been thinking about how I would recreate the look. So, I made a moodboard for it!

Creating a living room based around the wallpaper accent wall, I chose a patterned paper that had a bold purple background and green, blue and yellow accents to work with. The above moodboard is what I came up with. Looking at it again, I’m thinking I would maybe make a quick change and paint the walls the green accent from the wallpaper rather than the buttery yellow.

How would you approach the wallpaper accent wall?

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Yesterday, the design blog Trendir covered the awesome wallpaper above. Yes! That’s wallpaper – isn’t it fun? In the photos, the paper really looks like real leather, real panels and real bookshelves! I’m curious to see what they look like in person…

These wallpapers are a great idea for a temporary living space, or an apartment where you don’t have much control over the physical decor. They can really be used in any home…but do you think you’d miss the actual texture that the wood panelling provides?

What I would pay to see is a guest reaching for one of those books!

Anyway, the wallpaper is made by Mineheart, a UK based company founded in 2010. In addition to the wild wallpapers shown here, there are several others on their website that you’ve got to check out.

Another question I have is: how would you decorate with these wallpapers? Here’s what I’m thinking:

How about this tufted leather wallpaper with a tufted leather sofa – too much?!

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