New Wallpaper

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My new wallpaper for my iPhone. I have been playing with Instagram, so much fun,  follow @kellyfannon and see new patterns and colors each day.....thanks, Kelly

Pink and Blue

I was lured into the website of Carma a company of lovely wallpapers, each more lovely than the next. But the pink and blue, so pretty... it will be sunny and warm in London today, have a good weekend.

Les Chaises de Ginger

Les Chaises de Ginger, an old wallpaper from Brunschwig and Fils, fun charming and engaging. I love hand drawing, it always gives any design an extra dimension, freshness. I don't know if this is even still in production, I had it in a collection of wallpapers I have kept for ideas and inspiration. Hand drawing, still so dynamic.

Trompe L"Oeil

When I started in design a while ago I was printing wallpapers by hand for a designer. I liked the work and particularly working with paint and color, it developed and I was designing wallpapers for some time. So when I received an email this morning from Found Home Store who shared with me these trompe l'oeil wallpapers I was amused.

I have always found this technique of painting that deceives the eye and creates illusions of space and places fun. Deborah Bowness has taken this idea and applied photographs to wallpaper. Now we can cover a wall with an illusion of a bookcase, or a row utility chairs along a wall in a dressing room. Or we can dress a room up with a wallpaper photo of a classical wall complete with the carved skirting, dado and damask wallpaper. The other fun idea is of a posh frock hanging up in the corner.

Lots of humor in these papers and would be so fun to see the wallpaper of bookshelves in a corner of Starbucks or a super minimalist room with the classical wall, so lots of ideas to play with.

Aqua

Aqua is between blue and green, a mixture of green and blue. Farrow and Ball's Blue Ground, number 210

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This color has caught my attention several times this past week. I was looking at colors to work with a deeper blue, more toward red. But this aqua kept catching my eye.  I saw it in fabrics and shimmering in wallpapers and looked at Josef Albers layers of colors. It was used much in the 60's and today a whole range of surfaces are using the mix of blue and green. It is cool, definitely, but how elegant.

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