Braquenie wallpaper

Braquenie wallpaper rewards a second look. From across a room a toile de Jouy reads as pale texture; up close the scene resolves into figures, trees and architecture drawn in one color. The florals are a different animal, richer in the ground and heavier in the repeat. Both draw on the 18th and 19th centuries, and the brand prints on cotton and silk, so the surface takes light softly rather than bouncing it back.

How the patterns sit on an American wall

Scale decides most of it. A single-color toile can cover four walls without closing a room in: at three paces the drawing dissolves into tone. A large floral usually belongs on one wall, or on all four of a room you only pass through. On a standard 8 ft (2.44 m) drywall wall the bigger repeats want a clear run, with no gallery frames splitting the design.

Choosing between the Braquenie wallpaper collections

Collection Anniversaire 1823 is the largest group we carry and the easiest place to hold a drawn scene and a plain floral side by side. Compagnie des Indes and Compagnie des Indes II both look east, carrying the richness of the old trade routes into a modern room. Adelaide is a short, tightly drawn group, useful when too much choice is the problem, and the Braquenie wallpaper collection is a compact selection rather than the full range. The page you are reading lists every design we carry.

Powder room, entryway or primary bedroom

Small rooms are where these designs do their best work. A powder room has four short walls and a door that stays shut, so a pattern that would tire you in a living room becomes the thing guests mention. An entryway behaves the same way: you move through it. In a primary bedroom, keep the toile behind the bed and hold the other walls to a soft gray.

Color pairings and quieter alternatives

The grounds are rich rather than bright, so a room builds outward easily: pull the second or third color out of the pattern for the trim and leave the dominant one to the paper. If this line is a step further than you want to go, our floral wallpaper and silk wallpaper selections cover similar ground in a lower key, and luxury floral cushions carry a motif into a room without committing a wall to it.

Ordering Braquenie from Europe

We are an official Braquenie dealer, so the roll that arrives is the real thing. Order a sample first, tape it to the wall you have in mind and look at it in morning light and again under lamps at night. Duties and taxes are included in the price shown, and everything ships from the Netherlands. If you are unsure how many rolls a stairwell takes, send us the wall measurements and we will work out the count.