Nothing on the home design scene is more amazing or pleasurable than watching the comeback of wallpaper. Hip, artistically relevant, technologically driven: these aren’t words we ever thought we’d connect with the fusty world of wallpaper. Yet boutique fabric and paper firms like Britain’s Timorous Beasties (whose patterns include oddly sexy butterflies and bees) or Twenty2 , based in Brooklyn, the capital of hipster design, are producing papers that have nothing to do with grandmom’s vegetables-and-daisy prints. Meanwhile venerable old houses like Cole & Son are reviving and updating old damask patterns. At the same time, new, easier ways of applying wallpaper have put innovative metallic vinyls and 3D weaves in reach of those who’d rather (or can only afford to) paste it up themselves.  The result is nothing short of a wallpaper revolution.

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