The Apartment
An atmosphere of private parties filled with glamour, art and closed society. Welcome to the apartment, where the best of the 1970s and 1980s are concentrated. BorasTapeter opens the door with its aptly named The Apartment collection. Enter and admire muted prints with metallic details to extravagant patterns that are impossible to tear yourself away from.
The Venice wallpaper, for example, depicts the beautiful decorative windows of Venetian facades. If you're new to Italy, you'll love the unmissable Memphis pattern, inspired by a group of artists of the same name. The Velveteen wallpaper also pays homage to creative expression, its name and look inspired by the fabric pattern that filled the catwalks of the 1980s.
Those who find the spotlight of the fashion shows too much to bear will find delight in the subtle shimmer of the water on the beach in Malibu. The ripples of the ocean have made their way onto the eponymous wallpaper, so they can spill over the walls of your apartment and create a sense of peace of mind whenever the wallpaper surrounds you.
Wild Animals
On the other hand, an escape from city life is found in the Wild Animals collection. Its motifs transport us to the African continent, full of colour and exoticism, with a noticeable vintage touch, as if we were also travelling back in time. The illustrations depicting the landscapes of Madagascar, Samburu or the Serengeti Park come in two versions, with or without animals. You can complement one with the other, or choose between a bolder and a more restrained version.
Life on the African savannah is represented by the Serengeti wallpaper, which takes its name from the national park in Tanzania. You can see giraffes, zebras and elephants, which look almost real thanks to the meticulous rendering of details. The designers were also inspired by old lithographic magazines and the artwork of explorers, which led them to choose more subtle tones of beige, green, blue and black.
While Serengeti offers a very realistic image of nature, even with its large-format wallpaper, Madagascar and Samburu rely on more frequent repetition of the motif (although they are also large-format wallpapers, with a width of 180 cm). Perhaps it's only on closer inspection that you can make out the outlines of tropical plants and the animals that hide in them.
Eastern Simplicity
From adventure to zen. With the Eastern Simplicity collection, we are transported further east, where we are surrounded by harmonious, hand-painted motifs that encourage us to slow down and relax. They're great for the bedroom and beyond, thanks to the muted tones of pastels and neutrals.
Dancing Crane was the subject of a watercolour painting by artist Emma von Brömssen. She captured the bird, which is revered in many Asian cultures, in its spring dance ritual. Choose from four colours and let it dance on your walls.
If the mention of Eastern art immediately brings to mind the paintings of artist Katsushika Hokusai, it's probably no surprise that his famous panorama of the snow-capped peak of Mount Fuji and the shimmering waters of the tranquil Tama River also appears in the collection. The original woodcut from the 1930s has been turned into wallpaper by the Swedish brand in collaboration with Gothenburg's Röhsska Museum, which specialises in East Asian art.
The collection also includes less conspicuous motifs, which make the feeling of peace even easier to create. Ink Bamboo, for example, is a wallpaper with a subtle oriental print on a rice paper background, while The Wave is reminiscent of the sound of the waves of the endless ocean.
The new additions to the portfolio of the Swedish brand BorasTapeter show the variety with which wallpaper design can be approached. You can choose from high-quality wool wallpapers in a variety of colour patterns, and our article on how to choose the right one can help you.