Contemporary Collection wallpaper from Cole & Son

Contemporary wallpaper by Cole and Son: forests, moons and foliage

Contemporary wallpaper by Cole and Son often features a light motif against a dark ground. In the collection you see slender tree trunks with bare branches and scattered stars, large circles filled with golden texture and feathered leaf branches with clusters of small red flowers. In Woods & Stars, Luna and Mimosa the ground is respectively anthracite, aubergine and chocolate brown, giving a wall depth without the pattern being loud. Some patterns are drawn like an engraving, others work with flat areas and texture. Those who dare to make a room darker will find designs here that keep that darkness vibrant.

Patterns in the Contemporary wallpaper collection

In Woods & Stars wallpaper, slender trunks stand close together, in grey-beige engraved lines with cream-coloured stars on anthracite. The same forest returns in Woods wallpaper and in Woods & Pears wallpaper, this time with pears in silver, bronze and gold. Luna wallpaper opts for large circles in staggered rows, filled with a streaky ochre-gold texture on aubergine. Mimosa wallpaper is looser, with feathered branches in taupe and red flower clusters on chocolate brown. Lily wallpaper shows white water lilies on taupe, Summer Lily wallpaper the same lily on a smaller scale. Alpana wallpaper has golden curls on a dark ground, Woodstock wallpaper brown waves on pink and magenta. Plants and birds can be found in Palm Jungle wallpaper, Palm Leaves wallpaper, Magnolia wallpaper, Orchid wallpaper, Cow Parsley wallpaper and Flamingos wallpaper. Additionally, Hicks' Hexagon wallpaper, Hicks' Grand wallpaper, Pompeian wallpaper, Fioretti wallpaper, Feather Fan wallpaper, Miami wallpaper, Malabar wallpaper and Rajapur wallpaper belong to the collection.

Cole and Son wallpaper in a dark room

The lighter lines and areas draw the eye, while the dark ground makes the wall recede. Luna works on a large scale: one circle is roughly as wide as a chair back, so a full wall carries the pattern best. Woods & Stars turns a corner into a continuous forest and Mimosa adds a warm accent with its red clusters. A wooden sculpture, a black chair or taupe upholstery complements these shades.