Nate Berkus brings personal, pattern-driven wallpaper to Graham & Brown

NEW YORK – Interior design house Graham & Brown’s new collaboration with designer Nate Berkus has resulted in 42 wallpapers, three custom mural designs and 14 coordinating paint colors.

Berkus said the collection is built around the idea that a home should feel personal, layered and lived in.

The collection unfolds across four distinct themes—Archival, Tailored, Haptic, and Playful—each offering a different expression of Berkus’s approach to pattern, texture and the art of a well-considered interior.

• Archival draws on the timeless pull of botanical trees and heraldic imagery, translating pieces from Graham & Brown’s own archive and the aged, storied character of a centuries-old home into pattern. It’s led by Elmsley, a layered woodland scene; Ravello, Italian for “garden,” a trailing floral; Sera Bloom, named for the Italian word for “evening,” which sets full botanical artwork against a deep black ground; and Elderberry Stripe, a delicate leaf trail.
• Tailored borrows from classic tailoring – piping, seams, precise proportion – to give simple geometrics a sharper, more polished edge. The theme includes Somerset Sheaf, Sunday Stripe, Rayure Stripe, Benedict Stripe, Stirling Tweed, and Braemer Plaid, which takes its name from a village in the Scottish Highlands.
• Haptic is built from textures that invite touch, prioritizing tactility over pure pattern. It comprises Hadrian Weave, Aliso, Fieldstone, Rimal Weave, Lienzo, Spanish for “canvas”, and Travertine Wash, whose name and softly mottled finish are both drawn from weathered stone.
• A single Playful design closes out the collection with Menagerie, an illustrated scene of animals, trees, birds, and decorative vessels, hand-painted with Gouche paint in Graham & Brown’s UK studio following close collaboration between Berkus, the brand’s design team, and stylists, drawn directly from their Portuguese farm.

“Wallpaper has this extraordinary ability to give a room an identity almost instantly,” said Berkus. “For my first collection, I wanted every design to have a distinct point of view but never feel prescriptive. The best interiors are deeply personal, and this collection is meant to become part of that story.”

The palette runs in two directions. One half draws on soft sage and neutral tones, long a hallmark of Graham & Brown’s design language.

“Nate has a real gift for making a room feel collected rather than decorated, and that instinct shapes this collection from the very first conversation in our design studio,” said Iona Graham, brand and marketing controller for Graham & Brown.