Who would've guessed a boiling cauldron and molten wax could make such a delicate pattern?
Who would've guessed a boiling cauldron and molten wax could make such a delicate pattern?
Designers Nicholas and Rachel Cope of Calico Wallpaper draw inspiration from all kinds of unlikely places. For their handpainted Satori collection of wallpaper, they based the motif off of a traditional technique for using molten gold to mend broken ceramics. The subtle gradient of the Aurora collection was a reference to the horizon as viewed from a train car. And the abstract pattern on their Inverted Spaces collection is actually NASA satellite photography. To inform their latest work—a silk triptych commissioned by the design gallery Friedman Benda—the couple came back down to earth and riffed on a traditional dyeing technique for a pattern that nods to the earth's crust.
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