Gaze At These Au Courant Coverings That Nod To The Past

Yolande Batteau, the founder and artistic director of Brooklyn surface-design studio Callidus Guild, operates a practice that easefully straddles fine art and product design. Her handmade wallcoverings are rich in materiality, often employing esoteric finishes, and she has become renowned for commissions from the likes of Interior Design Hall of Famer Peter Marino for his Louis Vuitton and Chanel projects. Now, French interiors brand Élitis, lauded for its own exquisite fabrics and wallpapers, teams with Batteau to debut two vinyl wallcoverings. Combed Plaster evokes a patchwork of this-way-and-that raked plaster applications. The blurred watercolor effect of Abstract Floral scales up an 18th-century flower motif that originally appeared in hand-loomed silk, here painstakingly recreated via hand-painting. Both nod to the past while being entirely au courant.