Trove Wallpaper

Latest edition for Rue.  (Kind of a Mad Hatter cover for this issue, but don't let this deter you from looking.)

Do you all subscribe to Rue magazine?  It is a free online magazine that comes, I guess 6 times a year.  The pages are always super colorful, fun and free spirited.  There are ideas for home, parties, food, shopping and clothes.  While everything isn't always my style, it makes you happy to look at the magazine.  Anyway check out their website which features past issues, photo galleries, etc, and you can subscribe. 


Anywho...In the May/June 2012 issue, Rue features a home in Pasadena designed by Tamara Honey.  What a fun name?!  The interiors featured in the issue are not in my style (Her online portfolio is much more vast and eclectic).  They are kooky and feature bold bright colors everywhere, but I came across the living room walls and stopped.   

Home featured in Rue's May/June 2012 issue.

This image made me pause and take a longer stare!! How awesome is that wallpaper?  

Detail of Fuoco wallpaper by Trove. 

The great thing about online magazines is you can click on the picture and it takes you directly to the source's website.  I was taken to Trove's website to learn more about their amazing designs.  

I can't get over that wallpaper!  It's so funny, it will always be a conversation starter.  It could also be a good way to keep mischievous children to behave by making them find objects on your walls!  

Trove was started in 2004 by Jee Levin, a painter specializing in encaustics (a type of paint using heated beeswax and resin with color pigment added) and Randall Buck, a multi-media artist with a background in photography, branding and graphics.  When they moved to their Manhattan apartment they saw the lack of artistic wallpapers out there.  With their skills combined, they started to develop wallpapers.  They take pictures of things that inspire them to digitally create these beautiful patterns.  Because they digitally create the wallpapers, they are able to create much larger repeats than most wallpapers.  Pattern repeats can be 12' high and 3'-6' wide. All wallpapers are produced on commercial grade paper with UV resistant inks and a non-toxic wax based protective coating.   

It seems like pricing I have seen is around $20 a foot. You can purchase samples of the wallpapers from their website.  There also is an option to customize.  Each pattern comes in a few different colors. 

Here are a few of the ones I liked:

I just love how there is so much movement and pattern in the wallpapers.  With that in mind, you can understand why these are also being used in many commercial applications. 

Not only does Trove print their wallpaper with a linen or a smooth finish, they offer all the designs on wood veneer!  You can choose the type of wood such as birch or bamboo.  

How amazing does the Alcoyne print look on wood veneer? It helps create a more masculine look for the floral design. 

Not only can you get one of their 22 designs on wood veneer, but also as a window film.  For those that  live in apartment complexes with an unsightly complex next door but need all the light, this is a great alternative to window curtains.  You can also put them on shower or cabinet doors.  The film is printed on either rice paper or bamboo paper.  

Trove's wallpaper designs also can be printed for glass applications!

Aren't these all so beautiful?!  Hopefully you liked one or two!  My favorite was definitely the oceanscape "Sargasso."  But I also like the one below that, "Ursa" which looks like falling jellyfish. 


PS Oprah has featured Trove twice in her O at Home magazine.   If Oprah shows it, you know you are supposed to own it!!

All images from Trove.