The Design District
Wallpaper Round-Up
We were all big fans of the wallpaper chosen for January’s opener to “Here and Now.” (If you believe it, that was the first time any of us on staff had hung wallpaper. Words of wisdom: Buy more than you think you’ll need.) It was Rudolpho Rings in black, by Gramercy, available to order at Miller Paint.
In my first post, I talked about Hermitage and Jennifer June’s great selection of wallpaper—things you can’t just order at your local home improvement store, like Nama Rococo and Jill Malek. That’s probably my best recommendation to find well-designed wallpaper at bricks-and-mortar shop in Portland. Otherwise, here are a few of my favorite wallpaper sources, found online:
NEW
Ferm Living. Great, nature-inspired papers designed and manufactured in Denmark. I love the black rose pattern.
Neisha Crosland. Clever, fresh geometric designs, plus great room panels.
Orla Kiely. Orla’s Stem Print reminds me of vintage Catherine Holm kitchen ware. Perfect!
Walnut Wallpaper. You can browse this site by color palette, which makes looking at all the papers a little less daunting. And they carry many of the lines I’ve mentioned here.
Naked and Angry. I’m a sucker for hand silk-screened anything, but especially wallpaper. It’s a two-fer: wallpaper and original artwork in one. Naked and Angry claims to carry “five of the sickest hand-screened wallpapers you can imagine.” You decide.
Palace Papers. Also hand silk-screened wallpapers on natural paper.
John Mahoney Designs. I love the subtleness of these patterns. They have a little sheen and a lot of sophistication.
Mod Green Pod. These are hand silk-screened, eco-friendly wallpapers. Definitely check out the Grand Jubilee pattern.
Flavor Paper’s scratch-and-sniff collection. Yup, scratch-and-sniff. That’s about all I need to say, huh?
VINTAGE
U Turn on eBay. Vintage, mod papers from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Tapeten. A huge collection of beautiful, more-traditional and less-mod vintage wallpapers from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s.
Wallpaper from the Seventies. The name really says it all.
Secondhand Rose. They claim to have the largest antique wallpaper collection in the world, from the 1860s through 1970. Regardless if it’s the largest or not, they have a huge selection.
Happy wallpapering! If you do any projects with wallpaper (either an entire wall, a panel, a headboard, re-cover a dress, or anything) please send me a picture. I’d love to see and steal borrow your ideas. Maybe a future post will be about projects to make with wallpaper …
By Mike Thelin on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 09:36AM PST
This is an incredible compilation by the way that has aided myself and my friends in our wallpaper buying needs.
By Rachel DeSchepper on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 09:38AM PST
Hey Mike—good! I’m glad this has been useful. If you have other questions, I do know of a few more sites that could be helpful. In fact, stay tuned to today’s post: Jonathan Adler just released some new wallpaper patterns that are beautiful.