Abstract Digitally Designed Wallpaper and Wall Murals by Iris Maschek.

Designer Iris Maschek launched her Wallpaper collection in 2006 predominantly for the interior design market and private commissions and now sells them, along with her wall murals, to the public. The abstract digital designs consist of overlapping line art and patterns, shadowy silhouettes and a combination of the two for striking and modern interior designs.


above: designer Iris Maschek sits in front of her Lace Chrome wallpaper

Her 2010 Concrete collection of wallpapers are shown below. The parentheticals, chrome and shade, refer to color options.

Ame (chrome):

Ame (shade):

Arc (chrome):

Ava (chrome):

Krom:

Lace (chrome):

Lace (shade):

Lun (chrome):

Lun (shade):

Munk:

Verv:


Her mural range, shown below, will transform any wall into a work of art with it's combination of sophisticated and stark colors, abstract images and overlapping line art.

Gloom:



Grace:



Lustre:



Shade:



Dawn:


Midas:



Park:



Veil:



Both the Iris Maschek wallpaper designs and wall murals are available online at Eurowalls:

•Shop the Concrete Wallpaper Designs by Iris Maschek

•Shop Wall Murals by Irish Maschek

Beth Katleman's Folly. Three Dimensional Ceramic Toile Wallpaper Installations.

“Folly” is a three-dimensional rendering of traditional Toile de Jouy wallpaper by artist Beth Katleman. On close inspection, the elegant, Asian-inspired pavilions that comprise the landscape of “Folly” are populated with kitschy figures, cast in ceramic, from popular culture.





The artist created 12 separate installations of Folly, the first of which sold for $200,000 through Todd Merrill Studio Contemporary to a private Australian collector in 2010.



As Katleman, shown above in front of one of her Folly installations, explains:
“I have long been fascinated by Toile de Jouy, the printed fabrics that drape the walls and beds of 18th century France. Peasants cavort in bucolic landscapes decked out with flowers, all in the shadow of classical ruins. There is something surreal about these scenes, which float, disembodied in a world without gravity. I love the contrast between the ornate sensuality and frivolity of the scenes, and the incongruous setting. Often the 2nd and 3rd generation knock‐offs catch my eye, especially those that project a sense of optimism, as though they long for a grander existence”








In Miami, Folly was installed on a Royal blue painted wall instead of the Wedgewood blue seen at both the Greenwich House's Jane Hartsook Gallery and Todd Merill Studio Contemporary.




"Folly" has received recent coverage in The New York Times, The Art Economist, The Art Newspaper, Ceramics Art and Perception, France’s La Tribune, Shanghai’s Grand Design and Taiwan’s Cacao. “Folly” was exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York in the Fall of 2011 and will be on view at The National Trust in the U.K at Claydon House in 2012.

Materials: Porcelain, wire, steel rods and heat-shrink tubing
Dimensions: 192" W x 108" H x 11"D (487cm W x 274cm H x 28cm )

images and info courtesy of Jane Hartsook Gallery, Todd Merill Studio Contemporary and Go Ceramics!