Rebecca Moses Dreams Up Whimsical Wallcoverings

Fashion illustrator and designer Rebecca Moses is a genius at female portraiture, her colorful sketches presenting women as goddesses in all their stylish diversity. This coming January (with a sneak preview here, then at BDNY), she will debut a 10-print wallcovering collection, her first, with elements culled from those compositions. “As I’m passionate about color, pattern, and creating magical spaces, it has always been my dream to design a wallcovering,” Moses recalls. “I was fortunate to meet Momentum’s Jennifer Nye through Interior Design editor in chief Cindy Allen at the Giants event in Palm Springs, and our creative synergy was immediately evident.”

Drawn from her Kimono Lady canvas comes the self-portrait Close Up, Kimono Mosaic (a maximalist repetition of her attire), the minimalist abstraction Kimono Untamed, and Fleur, which scales up the portrait’s floral watercolor elements. Other highlights are a gallery of Moses’s painted women, various riffs on the Queen of England’s likeness (including Reflection), and Have a Seat, featuring watercolor chairs. All speak with wit and whimsy to women’s enigmatic beauty and power.

Get Textured With This Neutral + Natural Wallcovering Collection

The viral meme of the “sad beige baby” aesthetic has given shades of greige a bad rap lately. But a composition of taupe, tan, and cream needn’t be a snoozefest. Enter Dénudé, “stripped” in French, a collection for which New York designer Tania Leipold of Laine + Alliage recolored a selection of her most-loved wallcoverings in neutrals (vis-à-vis their original brights). The subtle botanicals and geometrics, in warm to cool shades of sepia and putty, are printed on handwoven sisal grass cloth for added texture and interest. Sad? No way!