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12 Artful Wallpapers to Bring Botanic Beauty into Your Home

From soothing watercolor blooms to vibrant foliage, these designs are as refreshing as a walk in the park

By Jill Sieracki
Stylish bedroom with green patterned wallpaper, pink accents, pink armchair, and white bed near large windows.
Fanfare Flock by Cole & Son, from the Pearwood Collection. Photo: Cole & Son

Whether you’re tucked away in a country estate or a spacious urban aerie, adding natural elements to your home is the perfect way to create a soothing environment that celebrates indoor-outdoor living. While many use art and furnishings inspired by nature to enliven their living spaces, another option is to choose painterly wallpapers that turn patterns of flowers, leaves, and other botanicals into interior landscapes as refreshing as a walk in the park.

Here, Galerie rounds up some recent collections sure to infuse any space with a glorious array of botanical elements.

Room with autumn leaf wall mural, wooden chair, small table with fruit and gray floor.
Calico Wallpaper collaborated with architecture firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero for the new Overgrow collection. Courtesy of Calico Wallpaper

1. Calico Wallpaper

Fast-rising architecture firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero has collaborated with some of biggest names in the art and design world, including Nina Johnson Gallery and Friedman Benda, as well as leading fashion retailers like Everlane and Barneys New York. This month, it introduced a striking wall covering collection, Overgrow, with Calico Wallpaper. Featuring a blossoming tumble of vines, the design made its debut at Schloss Hollenegg, a historic Austrian castle that is continually reconfigured to promote the work of emerging designers.

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Colorful living room with floral wallpaper, green and red sofas, yellow ottoman, and white fireplace with decorative items.
Cole & Son’s new Pearwood Collection includes the Aurora print. Courtesy of Cole & Son

2. Cole & Son

For its new Pearwood Collection, Cole & Son went back into its extensive archives to rediscover some of founder John Perry’s most exquisite block prints. Among the fairy-tale-like designs is the verdant Aurora, a lush tapestry of hearty blooms and tight foliage, available in four distinct colorways.

Modern living room with geometric wooden accent wall, light gray sofas, woven lamp, and decorative surfboard.
To create Phillip Jeffries’s new Cape Town print, artisans color and hand-lay water hyacinth to create a unique basketweave pattern. Courtesy of Phillip Jeffries

3. Phillip Jeffries

The established fabric and wall covering brand launched its latest collection, Savanna, during the pandemic, offering the design community a small taste of wanderlust. Design director Tara van Lunen detailed how the collection was inspired by images from company president Philip Bershad’s safari vacation, translating the “exotic exploration” into a textural array of patterns and weaves at home in an African resort or a residence of a worldly adventurer.

Green vase with palm leaves and colorful birds on a beige background.
Fromental’s Les Marquesas wallpaper, in the Nuki colorway, is a lush and inviting tropical landscape painted on silk. Courtesy of Fromental

4. Fromental

Launching this week is Les Marquesas, a modern chinois of tropical foliage, exotic birds, and fluttering butterflies hand-painted on silk. Available in four colorways—Atuona, Jacques, Nuku, and Hanakee—the lush designs from Fromental, which is known for its elaborate bespoke creations, instantly transport viewers to dreamy far-flung locales and picturesque gardens.

Green palm leaf pattern on a white background, creating a tropical and natural motif for wallpaper or fabric design.
Dedar’s Pensiero Selvaggio print from the new Tableaux Vivants collection. Courtesy of Dedar

5. Dedar

Dedar’s eye-catching new offerings, the Tableaux Vivants line, include a graphic reinterpretation of the classic palm-frond print. Depicted in vivid detail, the Pensiero Selvaggio design layers the plant’s iconic pointed leaves in pop-y detail, giving the repeat a Warholian effect. And just like the famed artist’s signature Pop Art portraits, the design is available in various color combinations.

Cozy bedroom with floral patterned wall, pink and gray bedding, small black table with plants, and white draped curtains.
A bedroom sanctuary papered in the Vale London’s new Dahling print in Haze. Courtesy of The Vale London

6. The Vale London

The Vale London founder Melinda Marquardt finds inspiration in the U.K. capital’s juxtaposition of Georgian and Victorian buildings and contemporary skyscrapers, transferring that mix into her collections, which blend traditional and modern. “I want every piece to show the hand of the artist, and for the viewer to discover more details in the work the longer they look at it,” says Marquardt. Her new collection, Beaufort, includes a style influenced by Man Ray’s famed photograms that re-creates her drawings of peonies and dahlias, done at the famed Chelsea Flower Show, as a soft silhouette.

Grey sofa with two pillows in front of tropical leaf-patterned wallpaper, next to a potted plant on a wooden floor.
The Palmera print from Arte’s Les Essentials | Travellers collection. Courtesy of Arte

7. Arte

Arte is known for its bold designs, and its approach to botanicals is no different. Headquartered in Belgium, the company is introducing its Les Essentials collection, which uses a global array of patterns and textures to create a jet-setting aesthetic. The Palmera print features a jungle’s worth of towering palms, then washes the exotic design in a moody plum any globetrotting fashionista would adore.

Elegant living room with two blue chairs, floral arrangement, abstract wallpaper, wooden floor, and a decorative chandelier.
Carlisle & Co.’s Oasis print in Neutral, available at Holly Hunt. Courtesy of Holly Hunt

8. Holly Hunt

Earlier this year, Holly Hunt introduced its own wall covering portfolio, which includes unique creations from Holly Hunt Walls; Assemblage, a bespoke, made-to-order handcrafted studio based in Arkansas; and Carlisle & Co., which delivers artful decorative papers using innovative textures, foils, and hand-applied fibers. Among the Carlisle & Co. offerings is Oasis, a large-scale botanic print rendered in a dreamy watercolor effect.

White metal bench in front of a colorful, lush garden mural featuring green, purple, and pink foliage.
Enfumé mural from Flavor Paper’s Wild Life collection. Courtesy of Flavor Paper

9. Flavor Paper

Having collaborated with groundbreaking creatives like Katie Stout, Misha Kahn, and the Haas Brothers, Flavor Paper is constantly pushing the boundaries of traditional prints. Its made-to-order murals include Enfumé, a psychedelic twist on the customary landscape panel, representing the Great Smoky Mountains in swaths of luminescent pinks and greens. Additionally, the company is donating 25 percent of its online sales of its cityscape toiles to organizations helping to feed those on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis.

Decorative plant in a small pot on a modern black and white side table against a textured pastel wall background
Eskayel’s Cortile design in Verde. Courtesy of Eskayel

10. Eskayel

New York textile studio Eskayel creates painterly wallpapers and fabrics that illuminate any space with remarkable abstract designs. Its ethereal Omaggio collection was inspired by paintings of the Tuscan-style gardens studio founder Shanan Campanaro’s father cultivated at their Southern California home. With Cortile, leaves are rendered in fluid shapes against the watery illusion of a summer sky.

Dining area with marble table, wooden chairs, colorful pendant lights, decorative vases, and bold leaf-patterned wallpaper.
Elitis’s Nid d’Oiseau pattern from its new Flower Power collection. Courtesy of Elitis

11. Élitis

The haute couture of wall coverings, Élitis regularly elevates washes of colors and painterly patterns to remarkable works of decorative art. Its new Flower Power collection is a joyful reimagining of myriad garden species, including graceful calla lilies, sturdy succulents, and robust greenery. Its abstract Nid d’Oiseau print comes in six colors, from a spicy brick background to a whisper of grays.

Illustration of lush tropical leaves and plants with vibrant green and yellow tones on a dark background.

12. Mokum

Famed Hollywood costume designer Catherine Martin collaborated with Mokum on the atelier’s latest collection, Club Tropicalia. Its zesty La Palma wallpaper print brings to life a richly layered jungle landscape complete with lush palm trees and ripe banana plants.