Piet Hein Eek designs oxidised copper wallpaper for NLXL Lab
London Design Festival 2016: Oxidised copper and sheets of cork are among the textures replicated by Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek for wallpaper manufacturer NLXL Lab (+ slideshow).
Eek's new designs are part of a wider collection of wallpapers by the Dutch company, which is also releasing products by Studio Job, Paola Navone and Neil Poulton.
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Each designer's contribution is totally different, as NLXL Lab wanted to avoid putting out a uniformed collection that followed a single theme.
"These wallpapers are a 'best of' compilation of ideas that do not necessarily belong to a family of products," said creative director Rick Vintage.
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"NLXL Lab takes us away from the traditional way of creating an entire collection with one single theme or just one single designer."
Eek – who previously worked with the Dutch wallpaper company to release a range of weathered-wood designs – designed his Copper paper from a 10-metre-long installation he built in his factory.
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Over a period of several months, he poured different types of acid over the copper to create a multicoloured effect.
Studio Job has designed a black and gold metallic paper featuring graphic illustrations of machinery, similar to the patterns on its collection of mosaic tiles for Italian brand Bisazza.
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The Dutch studio previously raided its own archive, using existing drawings, icons, images and patterns to create unique nine-metre running compositions without any repetition for NLXL.
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Italian interior designer Navone based her brightly coloured Supermarket wallpaper on the shelves in grocery stores, while Neil Poulton, a Scottish industrial designer, created a monochrome paper complete with grey sketches.
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The new NLXL Lab wallpaper collections will be introduced at 100% Design during the London Design Festival, which takes place from 17 to 25 September 2016.
Other products launching during the event include a circus-themed collection of tableware by Marcel Wanders, and handmade furniture made from vibrantly stained wood and brass marquetry by Bethan Gray.