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Designer Johanna Basford Goes Cuckoo, Punk Peacock, Delirium & Flutterlicious.

Cuckoo, Punk Peacock, Delirium, Flutterlicious and Macbeth are just a few of the fun names Johanna Basford has given to her unique and beautiful wallpapers. The multi-talented Scottish designer has a way with names as well as with flora and fauna. Her hand printed and hand painted wallpapers (both custom and studio collection) are simply fabulous. In addition to those, she makes ceramics, limited edition prints, lampshades and some unusual items all of which incorporate her simultaneously delicate and bold designs.

Talented and super productive, she was the recipient of Elle's Decoration Design Award for the best in bedrooms in 2007. Below are some of her amazing creations, with the descriptions furnished from Johanna.

Bespoke Collection of Wallpaper

Punk Peacock, Bespoke Collection - digitally printed:

Above: Johanna's first exploration into digital printing. A twist on tradition, this interpretation of the classic ‘bird amongst the blossoms" print, features pairs of ornamental peacocks, perched amidst giant, oversized foliage and flowers, in a dramatic black on white, super-wide wallpaper. Not for the fainthearted, this bold, 1.2 meter wide print packs an eye-watering visual punch.

Delirium, Bespoke Collection - hand printed and embellished with Swarovski Crystals:

Above: Richly inked hand printed wallpaper, studded with Swarovski Crystals. This paper features layers of swirling botanics and decorative flourishes, silk screen printed in gloss black, pearly metallics, flashes of crisp silver lacquer and hand embellished with world-famous Swarovski Crystals.

Midnight Butterfly, Bespoke Collection - hand printed:

Above: A truly exquisite wallpaper, perfect for hanging in panels in place of traditional artwork. Delicate, inky layers of black on black floral and butterfly motifs are over printed with gold lacquered detail and further embellished with hand drawing. Paper-cut and gold leaf butterfly silhouettes flutter from the paper at intervals. Each panel is accompanied with 5 gold leaf butterflies, to be sited on install to catch the light or draw attention to a particular feature. Further gold leaf butterflies available on request.

Cuckoo, Bespoke Collection - hand painted:

Above: Delicate gold lacquered cuckoo clock, surrounded by rambling foliage and layered over a glossy black on black silhouette. A unique piece merging ornate decoration with functional design. Battery operated clock mechanism (single AA battery required)

Studio Collection of Wallpapers:

Crazy Botanic, Studio Collection - Hand Printed:

Above: Delicate tangles of imagined botanics, a-flutter with butterflies and lady bugs form densely decorative spheres of foliage, each interlinked with a single entwined vine.
Available in the color options shown above.

Flutterlicious, Studio Collection - Hand Printed:

Above: A truly sumptuous wallpaper; hundreds of delicately hand drawn butterflies, silk screen printed in rich gold lacquer or pearly hot pink. Stunning in single panels or stretched out across a feature wall.

Bella, Studio Collection - Hand Printed:

Above: Simple, yet delicately ornate; topiary-inspired spheres of foliage and blossoms, interlaced with love birds and butterflies, hand printed in pearly hues of aqua green onto spearmint or crisp white. Also available as a print.

Peking, Studio Collection - Hand Printed:

Above: Orient-inspired opulence; circular motifs featuring ornamental peacocks and butterflies encircled with exotic blossoms and foliage, each adjoined with a decorative band of flourishes. Available in the color options shown above.

Macbeth, Studio Collection - Hand Printed:

Above: A deliciously dark, gothic-inspired wallpaper. In a twist to Johanna's usual style of feminine florals, tangles of botanics and serpents twist their way through skeletons, spider's webs and ram's skulls.

Damask, Studio Collection - Limited Edition:

Above: Elegant flora intricately laced together forming a classicly shaped motif. Printed in limited edition print runs in two colour palettes, Western Isle Stone, a crisp, slate blue on white and Shortbread, warm biscuity beige onto a creamy rice-pudding ground.

Insectiana, Studio Collection - Hand Printed:

Above: A wallpaper with hidden depths. On close inspection, this classically styled print reveals a treasure of entomology gems; an inky, Victorian-inspired motif encases intricate drawings of beasties, butterflies and bumble bees. Available in white on black or black on white. Also available as a print.

Parlour, Studio Collection - Hand Printed:

above: Inspired by glamorous 50's show girls, with a hint of art nouveau opulence, this cheeky wallpaper is a must for boudoirs and powder rooms.

Her "glow' wallpaper seems to be a project that I hope becomes a reality:

About Johanna (the following is her bio from her site):

Inspired by her upbringing on a small fish farm in rural Scotland, much of Johanna's work has roots in the flora and fauna that she has grown up with. Her boundless imagination and passion for drawing, took her to Art School in Dundee, where she graduated with a first class honours degree in Printed Textiles in 2005.

Having dabbled with the idea of moving to London to work in a commercial studio, Johanna decided the concrete clad city sapped her creativity. Driven by a passion to create beautiful work of the highest possible calibre, Johanna set up her small Scottish studio creating distinctively different hand drawn motifs in her signature black and white palette.

In addition to creating her own collection of hand printed wallpapers which now adorn the walls of commercial and residential spaces across the globe, Johanna has created work for a variety of clients such as DKNY, Heals and The Crafts Council at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Her products are available at several UK stores and some overseas stores, go here to see stockists.

Or, to purchase online, go to the following links:
Design Supremo
Emma Clanfield Designs
Fresh Interior Solutions
Love the Rain
Not On The High Street
Rockett St George
The Shop Floor Project

Johanna Basford's site.

Another Twist On Toile: Modern Toile Wall Tiles

Awhile back I did a post on "Twisted Toile", modern takes on the traditional french toile as now found in wallpapers, linens and more. Then just the other day I came across a wonderful addition to the world of trendy toile; some fabulous ceramic wall tiles from Saint Honoré Wallcoverings. The french store also carries wallpaper and like hundreds of other online boutiques, trendy wall decals.

Wallpaper has made a huge comeback as an interior decorating option in the past 2 years (not to mention wall decals, vinyls and stickers...but that's another article).

In addition to bringing back foil stamped retro-patterned papers, textured seagrass walls, contemporary florals and graphic repeating patterns, several designers have taken a humorous stab at Toile, the classic french wallpaper design. As a result, there's a fabulous collection of tongue in cheek, slightly macabre, satirically suburban and just plain goofy options to choose from.

Jessica Smith, a textile artist and designer in Philadelphia, has taken the Toile de Jouy form and made it modern, witty and political. Her hand-printed toile wallpapers offer lighthearted social commentary.

Specializing in the design of textiles, wallpaper, and china, Jessica Smith uses elements of domestic design to explore contradictions. Although her products seem innocuous enough at first glance, upon further study, they often contain highly ironic commentaries on contemporary life, remixed within well-known historic textile patterns.

Above: French Toile de Jouy in three different color examples.

“Eighteenth-century French toile depicted pastoral scenes with classical ruins, ladies in frilly dresses on swings,” Ms.Smith said. “I wanted to make my own pastoral countryside, and the countryside of American is the suburbs.”

Trash Day, (above), is a homage to the day when suburbanites put the trash on the street for collection. Also available in several color variations.

Spying on China, above, shows and American spy plan over a Chinese landscape, a reference to a collision between such a plane and a Chinese jet in 2001 off the coast of Hainan Island. Also available in several color variations.

Cars Go Beep 1, above, has delicately rendered Hummers on the New Jersey Turnpike. Also available in several color variations.

And Cars Go Beep 2, above, has a double vision version of its predecessor.

And above is Jessica Smith's South Beach Toile. Ms.Smith is just one artist revamping traditional wallpaper design.

Yee-Haw Toile (above) comes in subtle colors or contrasting colors.

What at first glance seems like traditional toile, but upon closer inspection is revealed to be oil wells and bucking broncos, is a fun western twist on the french pattern. Designed by Paul Loebech, this too is printed by Studio Printworks and can be purchased there.

Ms.Smiths & Paul Loebech's wallpapers are available at Studio Printworks, 650 Newark Street, Hoboken, NJ (212) 633 6727 or info@studioprintworks.com.

Another wonderful eerie and perhaps even grotesque take on Toile is by Timorous Beasties.

above: What at first looks like a damask-like toile is revealed to actually be a devil's face up close.

Above is one of my favorite all time wallpapers, Iguana and Insects, looks like formal flourishes until one looks closer (right) and sees birds, insects and iguanas.

Their London Toile looks an awful lot like the traditional Parisian toile until you see that people are being mugged and more.

And while the two below toile patterns from Timorous Beasties below (left; pineapple and right; pheasant) may not have any "twist' on them, they are nice options from traditional toile. And are available in two tone color variations and well as several single colors.

Shop Timorous beasties wallpaper here.

Timorous Beasties Twisted Toiles are also available as lace curtains:

Buy Timorous Beasties Devil and Thistle lace curtains here.

And their fabulous London Toile is also available as bone china here.

Lest you think toile is only suitable for your walls, below are four different twisted toile patterns designed By Groovy Q.

Pattern shown clockwise from upper left: Suburban Sprawl Toile, Girl Power Toile, the Classic Tom of Finland Toile and Vice Toile.

Available in pillowcases (and sheets):

Boxers:

even gift wrap:

Buy Groovy Q toile products here.

Town Toiles makes a line of products that range from aprons and tea towels to wallpaper, fabric and gifts in their own "city" patterns:

Above are just four examples: New York, Charleston, Nantucket and Boston. They also have San Francisco, Tampa, beach and Nautical patterns.

Shop Town Toiles here.
Buy them here.

And lastly, one of my favorite takes on toile is by Historically Innaccurate Decorative Arts where Richard Saja takes classically traditional toile fabric and embroiders such modern day icons as UFOs, bunny eras and Mohawks atop it: