(wallpaper) october 20th, 2006

Christophe Leclercq reminded me of a project from last year. More like decoration. Creating wallpaper sensibly modernising our environment.

The “palais de tokyo” wallpaper for example: A wall of graffiti, such realistic that it seems to be present. Sold in rolls to cover large surfaces.
Imagine a bourgeois ‘flat, with Voltaire armchairs, Louis XV console table, in a room where the walls are covered with “wasteland” way wallpaper. And what a gorgeous feeling of modernity emerges in the mind of the visitors in front the bold decoration, without concessions… Behind the wallpaper, of course, still the neatly conserved panelling.

An example of good taste: