Albemarle wallpaper collection Cole & Son

Albemarle wallpaper by Cole and Son: damask and tile ornament

Albemarle wallpaper brings classic ornament to the wall, from large damasks to a sleek tile grid. In this collection, Cole and Son gathers patterns that revolve around symmetry and repetition: acanthus leaves curling into volutes, floral branches along a central axis, medallions with a rosette at the heart. The difference lies in scale and colour. Some designs play with strong contrast, others remain tone-on-tone and let the sheen do most of the talking. So within a single family you can choose between a wall that commands the room and one that only reveals itself in raking light.

Patterns in the Albemarle wallpaper collection

Aldwych wallpaper places turquoise acanthus leaves and copper-coloured flowers in mirrored vertical bands on anthracite, with a fine diamond grid between the motifs. Wyndham wallpaper has the same large, curling composition, but in off-white and taupe, with areas full of small V-shaped motifs and a pearlescent sheen. Piccadilly wallpaper is smaller in scale and more formal: square tiles with a round medallion and a rosette in the centre, in black, white and grey with ochre dots. Coleridge wallpaper features beige-brown leafy tendrils on a cream ground. Chatterton wallpaper combines fern leaves with exotic fruits, and Byron wallpaper places peacocks among the ornaments. Blake wallpaper works with metallic gold on deep ground colours and stylised pineapple shapes. Baudelaire wallpaper stacks feathered plumes vertically to form a panel. Albery wallpaper completes the series of nine.

Styling Albemarle wallpaper in your interior

With Albemarle by Cole and Son, you coordinate the rest of the room with the pattern. The colours of Aldwych are echoed by blue and green glass, as the vases and bowls in the arrangement show. Wyndham needs calm surroundings, so that its pearly sheen stands out as the light shifts. Piccadilly, by contrast, can carry a whole collection of natural finds: an antelope skull, coral under a glass dome, dried branches and feathers against the black-and-white grid.