Wallpaper Guides

Art Deco interior design is glamour with straight edges: streamlined geometric forms, bold saturated color, luxe materials, and a strong sense of symmetry, all adding up to rooms that feel...

Grasscloth wallpaper is the most decoratively rich natural-fiber wallcovering, made by bonding woven jute, sisal, sea grass, or paper twine to a paper backing. The format demands more care to...

Hanging wallpaper is a project most homeowners can finish in a weekend with a few basic tools and patience. The work breaks into four method categories depending on how the...

Art Nouveau is the style of the whiplash curve: flowing organic lines, stylized natural forms, off-balance composition, and decoration built right into the architecture. It arrived in the 1890s, peaked...

Toile is storytelling cloth. It prints scenic compositions, pastoral landscapes, hunting scenes, figures, romantic little vignettes, in a single color on a pale ground, almost always blue or red on...

Chinoiserie is the Western European take on Chinese decorative style, an interpretation rather than a straight copy. It started in the seventeenth century, when European craftsmen tried to reproduce the...