Foundation wallpaper collection Cole & Son

Foundation wallpaper by Cole and Son: walls that resemble materials

Foundation wallpaper gives your wall the appearance of a material: plasterwork, wood, wickerwork, stone, marble or concrete. Each pattern in this Cole and Son collection takes a surface as its starting point and translates it onto the wall. Sometimes it remains abstract, like a patchy patina without visible repetition. At other times it is regular instead, with rows of short strokes that together form a woven texture. The colours stay close to the material itself, from blue-green and grey to ochre and straw yellow. This makes the wallpaper work as a backdrop against which a lamp, chair or gilded frame stands out beautifully.

Patterns in the Foundation wallpaper collection

Salvage wallpaper has an irregular, patchy texture in blue-green with beige and light golden spots, like weathered plasterwork. Wood Grain wallpaper depicts wood grain on a large scale: oval knots and flowing lines running vertically across the wall, in grey-lilac on light grey. Weave wallpaper is smaller and tighter, a repeating weave pattern in ochre and straw yellow that resembles rattan or cane. Tweed wallpaper brings woven fabric to the wall, with lighter and darker threads interwoven. Stone Block wallpaper shows stacked stone blocks with shadows and joints, in colourways including Chalk, Oat and Charcoal. Marble wallpaper features white and cream-coloured veins running across a light grey background. Crackle wallpaper consists of fine cracks as in an old layer of paint, with metallic accents in some versions. Concrete wallpaper shows concrete with vertical stripes and small irregularities.

Combining Cole and Son wallpaper with furniture and objects

The images show how little is needed. In front of the blue-green Salvage there is just a brass floor lamp with black shades and a curved black chair. A gilded frame with a portrait leans against Wood Grain, next to a dark brick wall. Choose your Foundation wallpaper based on the material that suits your space: warm wickerwork with carved wood, grey wood grain with dark walls, patina with brass.