COVER-UPS

The best place to add a wow factor in your home is right underfoot (or on the wall). Here we spotlight our favorite rugs, textiles, and wallpapers of the moment.

By TIFFANY JOW

Mumbai-based textile designer Yashvi Suchak’s hand-knotted wool Ekko rug, in gradients of pink and blue, has a luxuriously high pile. Its ombré palette and circular shape are informed by the rich-hued paintings of late Indian artist S. H. Raza. hastu.in »

Marked by gradients of warm color and informed by topography, the Modern Round rug from Kush Rugs’ Topo collection is made of hand-tufted wool and viscose with a natural latex backing. It can be specified in a variety of colors and sizes, and in a hand-knotted version, too. kushrugs.com During Milan Design Week in April, the Italian contemporary rug company CCTapis released its Visioni rug in a range of new prismatic color combinations. First designed by Patricia Urquiola in 2016, Visioni is handmade in Nepal from Himalayan wool. cc-tapis.com Slovenian-born, London-based designer Lara Bohinc has a penchant for celestial forms that shines in her East of the Moon wool rug for Swedish company Kasthall. It incorporates four types of tufts, exposing a visible linen base weave among fuller patches that add up to a tactile work of art. kasthall.com

Named for the German term wunderkammer, meaning “cabinet of curiosities,” the hand-knotted wool-and-viscose Jaipur Wunderkammer rugs that Italian designer Matteo Cibic created for Jaipur Rugs were informed by his travel to the firm’s namesake Rajasthan state, beloved for its rosehued buildings. jaipurrugs.com, eastindiacarpets.com Vancouver-based artist Zoë Pawlak’s latest collaboration with Burritt Bros. Carpet and Floors was released earlier this year. Titled the Eden Collection, it includes this Utah Gold rug. With a pattern informed by the landscape around Utah’s Powder Mountain, it’s made from hand-spun Himalayan wool and Chinese silk and washed and finished by hand for an incredible sheen. burrittfloors.com The 18th woven textile that British designer Paul Smith has created for Maharam, the polyester-and-cotton Angles is available in five colorways: Opal, Jasper, Citrine, Aquamarine, and Agate, shown here. maharam.com »

Benjamin Moore, the paint stalwart, teamed up with artisans from Alpha Workshops, a singular nonprofit that provides decorative arts education and employment to people with disabilities and other vulnerabilities, to create a capsule collection of handpainted wallpapers that was released in March. The line includes five patterns in three colorways. Kimono; shown here in French Marigold, stands apart. benjaminmoore.com Translucent tissue is placed in layers atop background hues to create the evocative look of Calico Wallpaper’s Relic, shown here in Tabla. Digitally printed on lowVOC vinyl, the collection, released in May, creates the illusion of movement and depth, as if light were shining through the material’s surface. calicowallpaper.com A collaboration between interior designer Michelle Dirkse and her best friend, Seattle-based artist Noël Fountain, the Cenote pattern was informed by their travels to Yucatán’s Tulum and is based on one of Fountain’s encaustic watercolors. Dirkse’s eponymous design brand released Cenote as a clay-coated wallpaper and a textile, printed on Belgian linen, earlier this year. michelledirkse.com

Printed on clay-coated wallpaper, the delightfully literal King of Pop pattern, created by Seattle-based Abnormals Anonymous, is part of the studio’s Lust for Life collection, which includes three colorways: Corn Star (off-white), Pour Some Butter on Me (white), and Mary Poppins, shown here. abnormalsanonymous.com Louie Rigano and Gil Muller—cofounders of London-based brand Shore, which produces floor coverings using highperformance silicone cord—created the Clouds of Venus mat as part of its Iridescence collection, inspired by the colors of extraterrestrial atmospheres. Supportive to the feet and highly tactile, the rug can be used as a cushion, doormat, or stand-alone statement piece. shorerugs.com Amsterdam-based Christiane Müller designed the tactile Cherished Knit upholstery fabric for HBF Textiles. Both stain-resistant and available in eight colorways, it’s made from a blend of acrylic, cotton, wool, and polyester. Look closely at its irregular weave to spot the handwork of its artisans, who create each piece at a boutique mill in Italy. hbftextiles.com »

Translated from a flora-filled mural painted by Shanan Campanaro, founder of textile design studio Eskayel, the Regalo di Dio Verde (“gift of the green god”) wallpaper from the Omaggio collection can be printed on a classic paper roll or paper-backed Belgian linen. eskayel.com Studiopepe, the Milan-based design agency founded by Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara di Pinto in 2006, is a master of elegant eclecticism. Its Haru wallpaper, created for Italian wallpaper company Wall & Decò and released during April’s Milan Design Week, is available in three colors and informed by Japanese paper-folding techniques. wallanddeco.com Zürich-based designer Marie Schumann’s ongoing wall-hanging series Softspace—a meditation on material and architecture that seeks to establish a new way to experience textiles in living spaces—is available through her studio, Textiles and Space. Softspace #21, shown here, was woven in Switzerland on an industrial jacquard loom using flame-retardant Trevira CS polyester, cotton, and Lurex, and hangs on a steel tube. marieschumann.de

Flavor Paper’s hand-screened Permanent Sunset wallpaper, part of its Wild Life collection, requires four screens to print in its Brooklyn production facility. The pattern—set on Mylar and ’80s-evoking colorways including Miami Nice, Over Easy, Pansy, and Spencers (all created by Brooklyn fiber artist Liz Collins)—riffs on stills from the 1982 cult film Liquid Sky, which documents Manhattan’s downtown New Wave–era club scene. flavorpaper.com The diamond pattern of this shaggy, hand-finished wool-and-mohair rug from Tufenkian Artisan Carpets was informed by that of an antique kimono owned by James Tufenkian, who designed the versatile floor covering. tufenkian.com Parachute’s handmade Textured Wool rug takes nearly a month to create in Panipat, India, where weavers carefully hand-separate, dye, and spin the wool and cotton used to make it. The floor covering’s nubby motif is an ideal resting place for tired toes. parachutehome.com h