Off The Wall
5 boundary-pushing creations on view this week
WALL
coverings are no longer just decoration adorned with frilly florals and country toiles. Here are five rad companies exhibiting their new wall wares at ICFF and other fairs.
Meystyle’s Conductivity collection incorporates tiny lights into silk, linen and vinyl wall coverings, which are all made to order. Its Golden Resistance design, in which an electric waterfall of light particles emerges from a golden linen canvas, is particularly spectacular
( Meystyle.com).
Don Flood’s day job might be photographing beauties like Jennifer Lawrence and Eva Mendes, but his other pastime is designing large-scale photo-based wallpaper. His greatest hits include one with life-size beetles (currently on display at the Cooper Hewitt museum) and another with flies (inset). “It’s a great creative outlet for me,” he says. “Whatever I photograph can be turned into wallpaper.” He is launching two new lines with Astek Wallcovering at ICFF ( FliePaper.com). The ever-growing Brooklyn-based wallpaper empire, Flavor Paper, and design firm Um Project have birthed Conduct, which uses ink that conducts electricity. With lights, moving mirrors and spinning fans activated by a person touching the wall, this engaging invention is not to be missed ( FlavorPaper.com). Russian designer Yana
Svetlova is returning to ICFF to debut her new line of wall coverings; she will celebrate her first official distribution deal in the US at the Zimmer+Rohde showroom (YanaSvetlova. com).
Even in the wallpaper world, designer partnerships abound. Fashion pioneer Cynthia Rowley has teamed up with Tem
paper to create a collection of fashionable self-adhesive removable wallpaper ( TempaperDesigns.com). — April Hardwick