Area Environments Wallcoverings

Regular readers may recall I am an interior designer by trade, and I have found a new wallcovering company I am eager to use for clients. Area Environments makes mural-type products that are sized to your wall and space. Look at how painterly and unique they are!

https://www.areaenvironments.com/

BEAUTY: Interiors--Cecelia Casagrande

Interior designer Cecelia Casagrande is clearly a maximalist, a designer after my own heart. I love her choices for this Colonial Revival home built in 1895 by developer Moses Crane in Newton, Massachusetts. The dark colors on the ground floor are marvelous, moody, and certainly reminiscent of a Victorian sensibility. Animal motifs abound with art works by Hunt Slonem, the Leopard Walk wallcovering by Cole & Son in the dining room, and the truly delightful Ms. Ward wallpaper by Grow House Grow in a powder room which features a small repeating print of scientist Mary Ward walking an enormous praying mantis. Casagrande's color palette and fearless pattern mixing add to the rich, layered sense of this house--the styling throughout is fantastic. And surprising is her use of the palest pink in the primary suite, which really does look incredible with the Carrera marble in the bathroom.

https://www.ceciliacasagrande.com/

FEATHER Wallcoverings

Regular readers may recall my main profession is interior design and one of my favorite aspects of my career is being exposed to so many new, innovative, and unique products.

And I must profess my love for the Finnish wallcovering company FEATHER, founded by friends Tom, Anne, and Oli. I'm itching to find a client who will love these patterns as much as I do.

Their company creates amazing wallpapers and murals like this gorgeous watercolor series by LA artist Stacy Solodkin.

Artist Magnus Gjoen has created several marvelous wallcoverings for FEATHER that riff on the ideas of Neo-Classical, Georgian, and Victorian wallcoverings but with a wry, modern twist.

His "Flower Bomb" paper looks like a typical design featuring a spray of flowers but when studied closely, that spray is in the shape of a missile.

Gjoen's incredibly realistic trompe-l'œil paper "Victory Over Ignorance" is startling in its depth. The red stripes actually seem to hover over the antique black and white botanical etchings below.

And finally, what self respecting Victorian would not love this florid, Flemish-flowered paper with hidden skulls.

The papers from their regular lines are just as wonderful. I love the Art Deco vibe of this design called "Ember."

The mash up of graffiti and oil paint is exciting in "Glowing Shards Blue."

Take a look at the tranquility of "Ornament," "Oslo," and "Raindrops."

And "Superabstract" is a fun homage to the graphics of the 60s and 70s while "Utopia" is pure 1980s Memphis style!

https://www.feathr.com/

BEAUTY: Interiors--Powder Rooms

As an interior designer, one of my favorite spaces to design is a powder room. It is the perfect opportunity for something bold, colorful, graphic, even crazy. Take a look at these marvelous examples...