Couture Carousel wallpaper collection Cole and Son

Couture Carousel wallpaper by Cole and Son: couture on your wall

With the Couture Carousel wallpaper collection you hang a fashion show on the wall. Cole and Son places female figures in couture dresses in a regular grid, each figure in its own panel, as if you're flipping through a sketchbook. The drawings are made in watercolour and ink, with loose brushstrokes you can follow up close. You see wide, flaring ball gowns, a dress of yellow feathers, a salmon-pink creation with a large bow and black-and-white polka-dot skirts. Here and there a figure walks with a poodle. From a distance the repetition forms a rhythmic pattern; up close you examine each silhouette separately.

Patterns in the Couture Carousel wallpaper collection

The Couture Carousel windows wallpaper works on a large scale: in the photo approximately nine panels fit across the wall width. Above each figure is a drawn arch, so the panels resemble shop windows. The dresses are bright in colour, in green, yellow, cobalt blue, red and lilac, on an off-white to light grey background. The Couture Carousel wallpaper shows the same figures smaller, about twenty panels across the width, in greyish beige rectangles without an arch. The colours are more muted: dark petrol green, lime green, yellow and pink alongside black-and-white. As a result, the wall looks calmer and from a distance the pattern reads almost like a texture.

How to use Cole and Son wallpaper with fashion figures

Choose the windows version if you want the wall to draw attention, for example in a study with brass and black-and-white accents. In the photo, the smaller version hangs in a living room with a cream-coloured bouclé sofa, a brass dome lamp and a mauve door frame. With the Couture Carousel by Cole and Son you can pick up one dress colour and repeat it in cushions or a throw — so the wall truly belongs in the room.