Just saw these installation shots of our Blackbird pattern on Jen Marsh’s charming website, Cattywompus. This is a cupcake shop in Hoboken apparently. Charm abounds!
Every once in a while, I get an e-mail from a customer that really stands out. This one comes from Jennifer, who (like many people) was wary of installing wallpaper permanently. She ended up mounting the paper onto foam core to great success:
Dear Cavern,
A bit more than two years ago I bought Blackbird in gold/brown. I gave half to my mother as a gift and kept the other half for myself. Frankly, though I own my own home, I just didn’t want to put it on a wall. It felt like too big of a committment (any wonder why I’m still single?) What if I redecorated? What if I wanted the birds on a different wall? What, heaven forbid, if I moved and had to leave it BEHIND?
Solution: I dry mounted the wallpaper and framed it, so I can now move it around to my heart’s content. And, even more importantly, take it with me wherever I go!
It’s stunning! I currently have my framed wallpaper serving as a room divider. I stare at my wallpaper and am filled with incredible joy by its beauty.
Thank you!
-Jennifer
Thanks for the kind words, Jennifer! And congrats on the project!
Stunning installation shots of ‘Blackbird‘ in the new Aesthetic Movement showroom in Chicago. We’re so excited to be working with them. The space looks amazing. Congrats!
I see wallpaper everywhere, and I go back and forth between thinking it’s because my eye is trained to see wallpaper — or it’s because wallpaper actually is popping up everywhere and taking over the world. Commercials, movies and TV, fashion editorial…wallpaper wallpaper wallpaper! Below, some shots from the May Urban Outfitters catalog sent by Cavern intern-at-large Karli Hendrickson.
Thanks for the images Karli!
Finally had a chance to see the Shepard Fairey mural on Houston & Bowery and snapped these photos of the most wallpaper-like elements of the piece:
Photos from the Michael Hennessy Home opening party last night. The store is featuring Tom Slaughter’s NYC Watertowers wallpaper — with his framed, watertowers print on top. A very literal representation of my interest in the blurry line between wallpaper and fine art.
Just got this installation shot of Migration in a powder room.
I LOVE wallpaper in bathrooms — for a few reasons:
- You can take more design risks in a bathroom because the stakes are not as high as, say, the living room or the bedroom.
- The small space will enhance the wallpaper effect, allowing the pattern to really pack a punch and define the room.
- It can be a fun surprise when you open a bathroom door and see vibrant color or pattern inside.
- When you have people over, they will end up using the bathroom and complimenting you on your bold, design taste.
- Plus, wallpaper in the bathroom gives everyone something to look at while they’re taking care of business 
Thanks for sending the photo Katherine– it looks great!
Shepard Fairey just put his mark on the wall Keith Haring made famous, on Houston and Bowery. Like Haring, Fairey covers surfaces with his signature style and activates spaces that were previously neutral, unnoticed, or forgotten. But unlike Haring, Fairey’s work draws direct inspiration from traditional wallpaper– his oft used, repeating floral pattern looks like it came right out of a baroque living room. By conjuring wallpaper right beside images that evoke posters, newspapers, stickers, and flags, Fairey creates the illusion of paper layers and toys with the idea of surface itself.
To me, Fairey’s mural on Houston highlights the perhaps obvious but nonetheless dramatic transformation that has happened to New York since Haring painted his mural on the same spot in 1982. “The corner of Houston and Bowery was a desolate area to begin with,” Haring once recalled, “so we decided that we didn’t have to ask permission. We thought that if we cleaned up the garbage then no one was going to ask us whether we had permission to paint it.” How times have changed!
New York Magazine has a terrific slide show of the installation process. I’m looking forward to seeing the show at Dietch.
[Images from Tom Slaughter]
I’m a big fan of using wallpaper in ways beyond traditional wall coverings. Kara Dake entered her apartment in the apartment therapy small spaces competition and used some Cavern wallpaper scraps — blackbird on her cabinets and thatch on her closet door. Her space is busy, but the deign elements all go together because she keeps a consistent color pallet. That is the key to combining patterns. Congrats Kara!
Images from the fully mounted antiquarian book fair at the Park Ave Armory in New York. It’s amazing how dramatically the room transformed over the course of the week. Tom Slaughter’s ‘Library‘ pattern is looking great!
