Chronicle for the Future

Just as our ​“Lon­don Chic” series doc­u­ment­ed wall­cov­er­ing pat­tern trends for the last decade, ​“Chron­i­cle” con­tin­ues the tra­di­tion by bring­ing you new designs with a clas­sic bent. Hot off the press­es are our most cur­rent releas­es—Evo­ra and Velles—which add depth and dimen­sion to the collection.

Evo­ra, with its angu­lar lat­tice-like geom­e­try and water­col­or brush­strokes, has the ener­gy of a mod­ern news­room. The pat­tern wields the down­town cool of weath­ered cement walls, and its off­beat batik-inspired linework pro­vides an alter­na­tive to sharp­er Lon­don Chic geo­met­rics like Clerken­well and Hol­born. The neu­tral tone-on-tone col­or­ways help tem­per the live­li­ness of the large-scale design.

In con­trast, styl­ish and func­tion­al Velles is a small-scale pat­tern that resem­bles fine­ly woven raw silk fab­ric. Vari­a­tions in col­or and tex­ture imi­tate the unprocessed look of silk noil, enhanced by a woven emboss. Sub­tle metal­lic touch­es sug­gest the soft shim­mer of silk, and the range of soft neu­tral col­or­ways offers a coun­ter­point to Lon­don Chic’s more lumi­nous and col­or­ful Green­wich. This sta­ple silk-look wall­cov­er­ing, well suit­ed to hos­pi­tal­i­ty and res­i­den­tial inte­ri­ors, serves as a foun­da­tion­al piece for the Chron­i­cle collection. 

Evo­ra and Velles join plas­ter-like Tru­elle, large-scale geo­met­ric Kintsu­gi, and recol­ored, clas­sic Ham­mer­smith in recent expan­sions of the Chron­i­cle line.