Oriental wallpaper

Oriental wallpaper chosen for American rooms

Oriental wallpaper suits the way US homes are built: long runs of flat drywall, ceilings that often reach nine or ten feet, and sightlines that let one patterned wall carry a whole floor. Our selection gathers sakura, cranes, bamboo and chinoiserie from European design houses, shipped with duties and taxes already settled.

Where these designs land well in a US floor plan

Powder room and entryway

A powder room takes only a handful of rolls, the least risky place to try an ink-blue crane print. The entryway does comparable work at the front of the house: one tone-on-tone panel sets a quiet register before guests reach the living area.

Open plan and stairwell

In an open plan, pattern the wall you see from the kitchen island and keep the connected surfaces plain, so the space still reads as one room. A stairwell rewards a scene that keeps climbing: a fading mountain silhouette, or a blossom branch that uses the extra height. Panorama wallpaper is made for that kind of run.

Reading the motifs in this range

Cranes stand for long life and good fortune, sakura for beauty that does not last, bamboo for resilience. Chinoiserie behaves differently: hand-drawn birds and flowering branches in scenes that keep releasing detail the longer you live with them. Browse the chinoiserie collection, or the Japanese and Korean collection if the Japanese line is what pulls you in. For a matte, tactile surface under the same palette, grasscloth wallpaper is the natural partner.

European rolls, American measurements

European rolls are narrower than the ones sold here: 20.9 in (53 cm) wide and 32.8 ft (10 m) long, covering roughly what an American double roll covers. Count in rolls, not square feet, and order everything at once so every roll comes from one batch. Primed, smooth drywall takes these papers without trouble; a heavily textured wall needs smoothing first.

European labels in the collection

• Coordonné: Japanese and Chinese influences reworked in modern colorways.
• Cole and Son: bamboo, cranes and classic chinoiserie.
• Pierre Frey: densely detailed hand-drawn scenes, French in origin.
• Casamance: poetic prints held to a quiet Japanese palette.

Samples, duties and delivery to the US

Screens flatten color, so order a sample of any oriental wallpaper you are considering and tape it to the actual wall for a day, in daylight and in lamplight. US orders arrive with import duties and fees paid at checkout, so nothing further is owed on delivery; shipping is free above a set order value.