Kirkby Design wallpaper

Kirkby Design wallpaper comes from Nottinghamshire, where The Romo Group has worked with fabrics and wall coverings since 1902. The wallpaper line is younger: it launched in September 2009 with a deliberately contemporary signature of bold graphic drawing, refined pattern work and a color palette that pushes forward.

Kirkby Design inside The Romo Group

Six brands sit under The Romo Group, Kirkby Design among them, next to Romo and Villa Nova. Romo goes back to the Nottingham furniture workshop Robert Mould started in 1902. Kirkby Design was pointed the modern way instead. It started as a line of high-performance fabrics before expanding into wall coverings and accessories, and that design ambition carried onto the wall.

Relief and metallic: how the surface behaves

Texture does most of the work. The brand plays relief against flat, matte against metallic, flock effect against hard graphic line, so a wall gains depth as well as color. What sits underneath changed too. The base under Wallcoverings Vol. 2 is FSC-certified wood pulp and corn fiber, which the brand states gives off roughly 30% less greenhouse gas than standard vinyl or paper wallpaper.

Three Kirkby Design collections to open first

Wallcoverings Vol. 2 is the current line, where painterly geometry meets contemporary flock and a finer metallic finish on that newer base. Wallcoverings Vol. 1 is the first line, which set the identity with hand-painted effect and geometry at large scale. Eley Kishimoto Edition II brings in the London fashion label behind the Flash pattern, turning fashion print into wall covering with seventies swagger.

Choosing pattern scale room by room

Kirkby Design wallpaper runs from quiet texture to large-scale geometry, and that scale is what decides the room. Across a standard 8 ft (2.44 m) wall a large geometric reads almost as architecture, which suits a living room or a stairwell. A bedroom or home office is better served by the quieter end, with finer line and slower color shift. A hallway carries the boldest designs well, since you move through it. Kirkby Design cushions pick up the same palette, and sister brand Romo wallpaper sits easily beside it.

Ordering Kirkby Design samples and shipping to the US

Relief and metallic finishes shift with the light, so order a sample and live with it on your own wall for a day. Selected Wallpapers is an official Kirkby Design dealer, so every roll arrives as the original product, with the right color and quality reference. Orders ship internationally with duties and taxes included. Still comparing surfaces? Textured wallpaper and metallic wallpaper are good places to look side by side.