Striped Wallpaper:
For Rebels with a Ruler

Once worn by outcasts (think jesters, prisoners and ladies of the night), stripes were long considered indelicate: too vulgar, too loud, more of a warning than an aspiration. But somewhere along the way, they crossed into high society. They lined the walls of European courts, appeared on noble canopies and French textiles, and eventually became a mark of refined taste. Today, stripes still speak both languages. They’re architectural and graphic. Formal and irreverent. Classic, yet constantly reinterpreted. And that’s exactly where we live: at the intersection of elegance and audacity.