The Sandberg Wallpaper creative team perused centuries of botanical art as inspiration for its just-launched collection, Herbarium. Purveyor to the Royal Court of Sweden, the workshop has since 1976 created patterns lifted from the garden.
Aiming to “dress the entire house,” Sandberg produces its designs on demand and assures “we produce our wallpapers with the highest degree of consideration for the environment. We only use FSC-certified material and our printing inks and pigments are carefully selected to be non-toxic and harmless. Our wallpapers are free from heavy metals, detergents, plasticizers, and PVC.”
Join us for a look at the new line showcased in a historic house on the outskirts of Uppsala.
Photographed by Alice Johansson, wallpaper designs by Sara Bergqvist and Karolina Kroon, courtesy of Sandberg Wallpaper.
Above: Tree of Life is the most Josef Frank-like of the patterns. Sandberg creative director Sandra Willund says it also references classic botanical illustrations. 
Above: Tree of Life is one of Sandberg’s wallpaper murals: expansive designs produced “on demand to your unique measurements.” They arrive in rolls, “each panel numbered for effortless installation.” This one is available in five colorways, including pink. All of the patterns in the collection are $7.71 per square foot.
Above: Louise, here in a pastel combination, is a floral trellis pattern.
Above: Louise, shown in Clay, is a hand-painted pattern of lily of the valley, twinflower, narcissus, and vetch.
Above: Ottilia in olive-green is patterned with sophora, acacia, and lungwort.
Above: Ottilia in green.
Above: Victoria in blue is “a delicate floral pattern inspired by hand-painted botanical illustrations said to originate from a duchess’s private 18th-century sketchbook.”
Above: The botanical sheets that compose Flora, here in green, are selections from Plantae Selectae, the celebrated 18th-century compendium of hand-colored engravings by Georg Ehret.
Above: The bamboo grove in Celeste Mural was inspired by a 19th century textile pattern. It’s here in green and also available in blue, beige, and red.
Above: Beatrice was inspired by early 20th century Italian wallpaper. It comes in four colorways; this one is dusty pink.
Above: Beatrice combines a zigzagging stripe with a floral vine.
Above: Painterly Juni, here in teal, is intended to “capture the essence of a misty summer morning.”
Considering papering your own quarters? Read our Expert Advice on The Art of Wallpaper (and How to Incorporate It) and Remodeling 101: Riotous Wallpaper in Closets, Cupboards, and Drawers.
Here are more patterns that we love:
- Botanicals from Boråstapeter, Sweden’s Oldest Wallpaper Company (Available in the US from F. Schumacher)
- Scenes from an English Community Garden: A New UK Wallpaper Collection
- Botanical Artist Flora Roberts’s Poetic Wallpaper from Hamilton Weston
- Delicately Embroidered Wallpapers from Fayce Textiles
- Wayne Pate’s Pompeii: The Artist’s Italian-Inspired Wallpaper and Fabric from Studio Four NYC
- Fayce Textiles Wallpaper Inspired by the Shakers
