Jungle Dream Designer Wallpaper in Charcoal 'Black and White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...
Paper, Paint
Jungle Dream Designer Wallpaper in Contrast 'Black and White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...
Paper, Paint
Jungle Dream Designer Wallpaper in Monteverde 'Green and White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...
Paper, Paint
Jungle Dream Designer Wallpaper in Mediterranean 'True Blue and Black'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Printing: Digital pigment print (minimum order of 4 rolls). Material:...
Clay, Paper
Jungle Dream Designer Wallpaper in Color Emerald 'Green and Black'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...
Paper, Paint
Jungle Dream Designer Wallpaper in Lune 'Pale Grey and Navy'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...
Paint, Paper
Jungle Dream Designer Wallpaper in Parchment 'White on Warm Neutral'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...
Clay, Paper
Jungle Dream Designer Wallpaper in Bluebell 'Dusty Blue and White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...
Paper, Paint
Jungle Dream Designer Wallpaper in Lily 'Grey-Blue and Blush'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...
Paint, Paper
Jungle Dream Designer Screen Printed Wallpaper in Zest 'Yellow and Grey'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. *Please note Jungle Dream is sold in even increments only. **Sample ...
Paper, Paint
Jungle Dream Designer Screen Printed Wallpaper in Stardust 'Silver on Oatmeal'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...
Paper, Paint
Jungle Dream Screen Printed Wallpaper in Glint 'Metallic Copper on Charcoal'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...
Paper, Paint
Jungle Dream Designer Screen Printed Wallpaper in Sphinx 'Gold on White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...
Paper, Paint
Jungle Dream Designer Wallpaper in Color Newsprint 'Black and Warm Neutral'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message u...
Paint, Paper
Jungle Dream Designer Screen Printed Wallpaper in Color Orinoco 'Blue on White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Get lost in this nocturnal fantasy jungle-scape! Flora and fauna combine to create the ultimate dreamy pattern. Material: Screen-printed by hand on clay-coated, FSC-certified pap...
Clay, Paper
Contemporary Jungle Dream Silk Panel, Modern Design, Made in Italy
By Midsummer Milano
Located in Milano, IT
These wall coverings are built starting from a honeycomb frame on which the cotton-pad is fixed. The printed fabric covers the structure. The cotton pad below gives softness and soun...
Silk, Wood
$238 / item
H 0.94 in W 180 in D 27 in
Herbario Designer Wallpaper in Satellite 'Multicolor Blues on Blue-Grey'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Founder of Ivana Helsinki, Paola Suhonen pressed flowers in a book, creating Herbario years later. Aimée worked with these elements to create a myriad of colorful wallpapers and fabr...
Clay
$243 / item
H 27 in W 180 in D 0.94 in
Cheetah Vision Designer Wallpaper in Haze 'Black, Pale Grey and White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Subtle cheetah faces peek through this swirling sea of cheetah print. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message us to purchase. Printing: Digital pigmen...
Paint, Paper
Cactus Spirit Designer Wallpaper in Contrast 'White and Black'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Give your home a taste of the Southwest with this graphic, oversized cactus repeat! This pattern combines saguaros, aloe, agave, peyote, prickly pear, San Pedros and more, the perfec...
Paint, Paper
$238 / set
H 0.94 in W 180 in D 27 in
Herbario Designer Wallpaper in Royal 'Multi-Color Blues/Cobalt on White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Founder of Ivana Helsinki, Paola Suhonen pressed flowers in a book, creating Herbario years later. Aimée worked with these elements to create a myriad of colorful wallpapers and fabr...
Paper
$248 / item
H 27 in W 180 in D 2 in
Deliciosa Designer Wallpaper in Powder 'Blues, Turquoise and White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Want summer all year round? This monstera deliciosa leaf pattern brings the jungle into your home! Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message us to purchas...
Paper, Paint
Astrobots Designer Wallpaper in Charcoal 'Black and White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This wall-covering with a galactic scene has robots in outer space, rocket ships & more, the perfect wallpaper for your child's room. Printing: Digital pigment print (minimum orde...
Paint, Paper
$238 / item
H 27 in W 180 in D 0.94 in
Cactus Spirit Designer Wallpaper in Kelly 'Green and Pale Grey'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Give your home a taste of the Southwest with this graphic, oversized cactus repeat! This pattern combines saguaros, aloe, agave, peyote, prickly pear, San Pedros and more, the perfec...
Paint, Paper
Mystic Lagoon Designer Wallpaper in Chalk 'White and Charcoal'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Diverse sea creatures from the Loch Ness traverse a mysterious lagoon, popping out against the rippling water. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message us...
Paint, Paper
Piña Pintada Designer Wallpaper in Mar 'Aqua and White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The tropical feeling of Piña Pintada wallpaper is sure to remind you of the islands, all year long. Printing: Digital pigment print (minimum order of 4 rolls). Material: FSC-cer...
Other
$238 / item
H 0.94 in W 180 in D 27 in
Herbario Designer Wallpaper in Sprout 'Multi-Color Greens on White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Founder of Ivana Helsinki, Paola Suhonen pressed flowers in a book, creating Herbario years later. Aimée worked with these elements to create a myriad of colorful wallpapers and fabr...
Clay
$352 / item
H 28.35 in W 6.3 in D 6.3 in
Madidi Clouds in Cream Botanical Tropical Medium Scale Wallpaper
By Newton Paisley
Located in Kent, GB
Collection: Madidi Clouds Scale: Medium Product code: 31A Colourway: Cream Roll dimensions: 70cm x 10m (7.5 yards x 10.9 yards). Area: 70m2 (16.4 sq.yards) Pattern repeat: Half drop ...
Paper
$352 / item
H 28.35 in W 6.3 in D 6.3 in
Madidi Clouds in Midnight Medium Scale Tropical Botanical Wallpaper
By Newton Paisley
Located in Kent, GB
Collection: Madidi Clouds Scale: Medium Product code: 32B Colourway: Midnight Roll dimensions: 70cm x 10m (7.5 yards x 10.9 yards) Area: 70m2 (16.4 sq.yards) Pattern repeat: Half dro...
Paper
Mystic Lagoon Designer Wallpaper in Heather 'White and Grey'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Diverse sea creatures from the Loch Ness traverse a mysterious lagoon, popping out against the rippling water. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message us...
Paper, Paint
Piña Pintada Designer Wallpaper in Gull 'Grey and White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The tropical feeling of Piña Pintada wallpaper is sure to remind you of the islands, all year long. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message us to purchas...
Paper
Herbario Designer Wallpaper in Dove 'White and Grey'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Founder of Ivana Helsinki, Paola Suhonen pressed flowers in a book, creating Herbario years later. Aimée worked with these elements to create a myriad of colorful wallpapers and fabr...
Paint, Paper
$238 / item
H 27 in W 180 in D 0.94 in
Piña Pintada Designer Wallpaper in Island 'Turquoise and White'
By Aimee Wilder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The tropical feeling of Piña Pintada wallpaper is sure to remind you of the islands, all year long. Samples are available for $18 including US shipping, please message us to purchas...
Other
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
Forget everything you believed about wallpaper (including mental images of your great aunt’s outdated decor). While paint has long had its place, there are fresh, modern designs these days in wallpaper that offer endless possibilities.
“There is undoubtedly an excitement surrounding pattern at the moment,” says Nick Cope, who cofounded Calico Wallpaper with his wife, Rachel. “Wallpaper has had certain connotations over the years. However, we are always focused on our mission to elevate wallpaper to high art.”
And today, paper is challenging paint’s long dominance. “In the late 1990s and early 2000s, everyone was painting and doing faux finishing,” says Sarah Merenda, founder of Merenda Wallpaper. But “there is currently a spotlight on wallpaper, and I find that people are interested in custom and large-scale designs. Printing digitally has been a game changer for the wallpaper world.”
Explore a variety of motifs and patterns in modern and vintage wallpaper options on 1stDibs today.