Wallpapers: All our wallpapers are made to order using our own environmentally friendly water-based paints. Our patterns are block-printed and our stripes and striés (faux-painted stripes) are trough-printed. Each wallpaper design has a unique texture which is achieved by using a hand-brushing technique to apply the background color. This, coupled with the application of the pattern using another layer of paint, creates wallpaper of great distinction and beauty.”
How did The Broccato Papers come about?
“The Broccato Papers is our newest wallpaper collection, launched in September. Named after the Italian translation for ‘brocade,’ the collection features three exquisite ornamental patterns derived from rich decorative fabrics featured in 14th- and 15th- century Renaissance paintings housed at The National Gallery, London. From these patterns, we have created a further three wallpapers using an element of the original paintings to form a comprehensive collection of harmonious designs.
The collection is characterized by ornate floral and fruit motifs, with meticulous symmetrical detailing, distinctive of the Renaissance style and richly embossed Brocade fabrics. Each pattern is available in 10 colorways, from soft neutrals and pretty pastels to bolder colors and metallic accents. The patterns include a pictorial print, floral stripe, soft trellis and a small scale tumbling oak-leaf pattern, amongst others.”
You’ve recently revealed “the colors of 2012.” Can you summarize these selections and discuss what trends they reflect in home decor today.
“Our top colors for 2012 are Pigeon, Brassica, Railings and Babouche, all of which are rich, nostalgic shades with an underlying quiet intensity that makes them suited to decorating trends in 2012. In particular, pale aubergine shade Brassica, with its underlying black tone, really sums up the decorating mood of 2012, as does the effervescent, positive yellow of Babouche.
Pigeon is a mix of blue, green and gray tones, which makes it feel casual but functional…. Railings is a soft and velvety black, which is underscored with an element of blue that prevents it from being too hard and gives it a vintage twist....
“These colors match 2012’s decorating trends, because they can all be used to create soft, easy-to-live-with, nostalgic schemes when contrasted with sympathetic tones – or a bolder more graphic look when paired with clean whites. This bolder look incorporates the color blocking and unexpected color combinations that we are certain to see more of this year.”
Farrow & Ball has a Greenwich showroom at 32 E. Putnam Ave. Call (203) 422-0990 or visit farrow-ball.com.
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