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Maison Martin Margiela wallpaper collection for Omexco

Maison Martin Margiela launches first wallpaper collections for Omexco

Fashion house Maison Martin Margiela has created its first wallcovering collection: a range of five wallpapers for Belgian brand Omexco.

Maison Martin Margiela wallpaper collection for Omexco

The Maison Martin Margiela collection includes trompe l'œil, optical illusions and reinterpreted motifs and comprises five designs: La Paésine, La Mosaïque, Le Rideau, Le Point de Croix, and L'optique.

Maison Martin Margiela wallpaper collection for Omexco

La Paésine features a Tuscan limestone pictured at the bottom of each repeat. The designers spotted the stone at a flea market, photographed it and enlarged the photograph. The image was digitally printed onto mica mineral dust on a non-woven backing, giving the finished wallpaper a tactile quality. It comes in a natural version, as well as black and white.

Maison Martin Margiela wallpaper collection for Omexco

La Mosaïque is based on a geometric mosaic pattern, most commonly seen in 18th-century marquetry, that creates a three-dimensional effect. The print is screen-printed onto a non-woven wall covering and finished with silver or gold leaf. This design comes in turquoise, lapis-lazuli and black; ochre, bordeaux and brown; fading whites; and fading greys.

Maison Martin Margiela wallpaper collection for Omexco

Le Rideau depicts an ageing staircase in the trompe l'oeil style. The image is screen-printed onto a textile wall-covering to achieve a scattered effect, which can be seen from different perspectives. It comes in white, pearl grey, blue, blue grey and red.

Maison Martin Margiela wallpaper collection for Omexco

Le Point do Croiz features a cross stitch design of a bouquet of flowers screen-printed onto non-woven wall covering. The print is available in white and silver, nude, and a red and blue version with creates a three-dimensional effect.

Maison Martin Margiela wallpaper collection for Omexco

A deformed herringbone motif creates an optical illusion close-up and a gently textured design from a distance in L'optique. The design is screen-printed onto a non-woven material with a matt base and gloss finish. The available colours are: black on white, white on black, and black on black, all available in matt and gloss; and brown and copper, and pearl grey and white gold, in matt and metallic.

Maison Martin Margiela wallpaper collection for Omexco

"By blending humour with elegance and avant-garde ideals with classic tastes, by reinterpreting objects of all forms and sizes and by playing with false pretences, Maison Martin Margiela deconstructs shape and volume and moulds a conceptual aesthetic within a one of a kind realm," said the brand in a statement.