Repeating Patterns - Wallpaper & Textile Design

[gius]

^ooh great comment

It would be nice to see different options for wallpaper
I also don't want to use that really 'sticky' and hard to remove stuff...
I remember reading about a company through the Interior Decor thread that creates wallpaper (think large posters/stickers cuz it's usually not big enough to cover the whole wall) and theirs is supposed to be easy to peel off
It makes me think of these plastic cutouts we used to put on the windows that didn't require any glue... they would just stick to the glass

I would love to have this myself

 

[cupkate]

ferm LIVING has some amazing very modern wallpapers.

But we're all bound to hate it again in a few years.

 

[Nyni]

if you don't like wallpaper because the removing part, forget it, now there is new product to remove it, they didn't use wallpepper for 30 year because they are studing a good remover...
but if you're convenced you can always use tense it
www.tenseit.com/

 

[SomethingElse]

^ Beautiful images! Thank you for posting the link, Nyni. I love the concepts and the photographs are splendid!

 

[gius]

^very, very good collection

Prada wallpaper designed by 2 x 4


This last one's a large file (1.26mb)... so you can see the detail closely


shots from "Content" by Rem Koolhaas

 

[SomethingElse]

These are from Thibaut which has been in business since 1886.

Chinese Laundry

Window Shopping

Birdcage

thibautdesign.com

 

[SomethingElse]

Zandra Rhodes

1968 Lipstick Print printed silk crepe textile, Zandra Rhodes' tutor at Medway College was Barbara Brown, designer of many Heal's fabrics. She helped her student decide to study textiles at the Royal College of Art. Unusually, Rhodes had chosen to specialize in dress fabrics: '...I was involved in a special adventure, that of patterns that would not hang flat, but would be cut and put together again in many different ways.' 'The Art of Zandra Rhodes', 1984. Variations on this fabric were used in a number of Rhodes's garments.

vam.ac.uk

 

[DosViolines]

"Erotica"
Designed by Louise Body and inspired by the illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley.

louisebodywallprint.com

 

[gius]

cute wallpapers, guys
Not sure what exactly this one is... looks interesting

'pile of flowers' by lone engelund and tina marie bentsen

'solid poetry’

susanne happle and frederik molenschot are spraying their
concrete tiles with water which makes the patterns appear.

 

[gius]

last one..


‘outdoor wallpaper’
by susan bradley

All images & more from here:
http://www.designboom.com/snapshots/inspired06.html

inspired by cologne
a platform for newcomers to the design sector
international furniture fair, cologne, germany
16th - 22nd january 2006
http://www.imm-cologne.de

36 works of young designers on show.

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

The 'Dandelion Clock' and 'Pile of Flowers' prints are fantastic!

Thanks for the wonderful pictures guys!

 

[snowqueen]

soo glad i found this thread ive got to do an essay on prints in fashion for college this is so usefulll thanks for starting this thread

 

[dior_me_not]

These are from Thibaut which has been in business since 1886.

*Please remember to not quote pictures*
Chinese Laundry

Window Shopping

Birdcage

thibautdesign.com

If those were wallpapers I would use them to cover the walls for my future kids

 

[SomethingElse]

^ Wallpaper and fabric, so you can coordinate to your heart's content!

These are all from William Morris.

"Bird" c. 1878. This pattern was registered in 1878; Morris designed it for the walls of the drawing room of his family home, Kelmscott House, in the Hammersmith area of London, which they occupied from 1878 until his death in 1896. It continued to be made after Morris & Company established textile production at Merton Abbey in 1881, and it was produced in three colorways. Morris himself referred to this type of fabric as "woven wool tapestry," though it is not technically a tapestry weave but a doublecloth. The effect of this heavy wool fabric when used as a wall covering, as it was at Kelmscott House, is a fine example of Morris' interpretation of the decorative arts of that era.

"Wandle" c. 1884. This printed design was achieved by a combination of indigo discharge and block printing. This multistep process began with the dying of the entire cloth with blue indigo dye. Then the areas that were not to remain blue were bleached (the blue was "discharged"), and the remaining colors were applied by the block printing method. The discharge process could produce both white areas and several shades of blue, depending on the strength of the bleaching agent applied to the fabric.

The design was inspired by historic textiles, especially fifteenth-century velvets that often featured a strong diagonal or meandering branch from which various flowers emanated. The title of the design refers to the river on which the Merton Abbey textile mill was situated—that river being absolutely crucial as a source of power and clean water for textile processing.

Printed cotton, 19/20th century. As one of the forerunners of modern design, Morris took much of his inspiration from the arts and crafts of the past. His disgust with the inferiority of many Victorian industrially made textiles, which he found lacking in both quality and appropriateness of design, led him to study the aesthetics and techniques of earlier historic examples–from tapestries to embroideries. This knowledge enabled him to take inspiration from the past while still creating for contemporary needs. Thus, a two-dimensional design such as "Kennet" could be—and was—successfully used for wallpaper, woven silks, and printed fabrics. The effect in each medium, however, was altered by choices in color combinations (bold or subtle), materials (shiny or matte), and textures (flat or pile). While the undulating flower stalks look back to Italian fifteenth- and sixteenth-century velvet designs, they also presage Art Nouveau.

metmuseum.org

 

[SomethingElse]

One more William Morris.

"Pink and Rose" wallpaper design, ca. 1890. Henry James described William Morris as "the poet and paper-maker" in 1881. Indeed, despite his many designs for stained glass, textiles, tapestries, furniture, and books, it is for his wallpapers that Morris is best known today. Reinventing the decorative vocabulary of his time, Morris believed that "any decoration is futile … when it does not remind you of something beyond itself." He turned to nature for inspiration, seeking to "turn a room into a bower, a refuge." The English countryside, with its hedgerows and native field and garden flowers, remained his touchstone throughout the period of over thirty years during which he designed wallpaper. Beginning in 1862 with the firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., and later, on his own with Morris & Co., Morris designed forty-one wallpapers and five ceiling papers. "Pink and Rose," from about 1890, is typical of his late style, which is characterized by naturalism and a clearly articulated repeating pattern. Morris believed that beauty, imagination, and order were the essential components of a successful design; all three elements are evident in this example of his wallpaper. His papers not only were an immense commercial success during his lifetime, but they also played a significant role in raising the status of English wallpaper to a position of international preeminence in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

metmuseum.org

 

[SomethingElse]

Printed velveteen, 1890s. Designed by C. F. A. Voysey (British, 1857–1941) for Liberty and Co.; Manufactured by Turnbull & Stockdal, English. Voysey supplemented his small architectural practice by designing all kinds of domestic decorative items: furniture, metalware, wallpaper, carpets, and textiles. His patterns are distinctive, with stylized plants and birds, in a range of muted subtle colors.

metmuseum.org

 

[leda]

concrete blond at designersblock
'as part of designersblock 2007 concrete blond exhibited a new range of 'walled paper' patterns
ornate wallpaper patterns are embossed onto concrete surfaces, transforming the traditionally brutal aesthetic of the material.'

designboom.com/weblog

 

[SomethingElse]

"Harvest Time" by Rockwell Kent (American, 1882 - 1971).

clevelandart.org

 

[ChrissyM]

^^i like that one...
what sort of material/media is it?

wallpaper? fabric?
I'm trying to imagine where i would like to see that sort of pattern..
i think it would look funny on curtains, or wallpaper etc..

 

[gius]

^it's quite soft, chrissy
i think it would go anywhere too
for me, it would be the bed.. either the curtains in that room or
And you could also just stretch a smaller piece on to canvas, for a little 'chaos' in a person's home rather than allover pattern