Five French Wallpaper Brands We Adore as US-Based Designers

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Whether you want sheer elegance and muted tones or playful patterns and contemporary colorways, France is a tastemaker; always has been, always will be. The following wallpaper brands bring you the best of Parisian luxury design combined with the incomparable charm of French country interiors. Their creations span centuries and materials, with a wide variety of textures, scales, hues, and inspirations. From Élitis to Le Presse Papier and from Maison Lévy to Nobilis (which we recently visited during Paris Design Week), these wallpaper brands are producing pure art. We hope you adore them like we do!

Five French Wallpaper Brands We Adore in the United States

Élitis

Élitis works across wallpaper, panoramics, high-performance contract surfaces, in-outdoor products, and handcrafted wall finishes. The house also puts a lot of attention on material transformation. On its site, that comes through in wallcovering collections that draw from linen, metal, banana leaves, wood, mother-of-pearl, raffia, and paper pulp. Some recent collaborations include Élitis x Studiopepe, Élitis x Callidus Guild, and Élitis x Véronique de Soultrait. The scope is broad, but the studio language is always fixed on texture, illusion, and surface regardless of the collection in question.

One recent wallpaper from the Élitis x Studiopepe collaboration captures the French house perfectly. Sculptée dans la roche, VP 1028 05, Calero, Lanzarote uses a stone reference, though the paper doesn’t copy stone in any literal way. Pictured above, you can see the striated bands in warm sand and clay tones, with a curved geometry that reminds one of how water flows over stone’s contours.

It is gorgeous, yes, but also specific. You could place it in a rounded niche, a stair hall, or a powder room and know exactly why it’s there. That, to our editorial team, is where Élitis stands apart. The house works with surface in a way that feels studied instead of generic.

Nobilis

Founded in 1928 by Adolphe Halard, Nobilis takes its name from the Latin adjective nobilis, which the house translates as noble, distinguished, and in good taste. On its heritage page, the company ties its identity to wallpapers and fabrics shaped by “updated tradition” and close attention to color, materials, and drawing. That language still accurately captures the century-old brand.

Nobilis has a long history, but the house doesn’t frame itself as archival or nostalgic. The current collections are described as coordinated, varied in inspiration, and well-suited to city apartments, country houses, seaside homes, mountain houses, reception rooms, and bedrooms.

A recent wallcovering called Arches is a fan favorite. On Instagram, Nobilis describes it as a translation of the Art Deco arch into delicate paulownia marquetry, with fine lines unfolding across the wall. Pictured above, the pattern repeats in tall pointed forms that reference the arch directly, while the natural wood tones keep the composition warm, understated, and a little less literal.

At Laura U Design Collective (DesignDash’s parent company), we’ve used Nobilis fabrics, including Apollonia in Tibere 6. The LUDC team also visited the Nobilis showroom in Paris during Paris Design Week last September. That firsthand familiarity only deepened our appreciation for the house.

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Le Presse Papier

Le Presse Papier is based in Lyon’s historic textile drawing district, and that location is the brand’s heritage. On its site, the house describes itself as a creator, publisher, and manufacturer of wallpapers and furnishing textiles, with workshops rooted in the city’s long textile history and a practice shaped by both hand drawing and digital tools. Rooted in France, some styles of the brand’s wallpaper are printed in the UK.

Founder Sébastien Barcet has spent more than fifteen years building the brand around floral design, color, decorative arts, and what the company calls “the life of forms.” Le Presse Papier also works with museums, foundations, and rights holders on guest collections, while continuing to produce original designs in-house. The house holds the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant label, and some of its work has entered the permanent collections of the French Wallpaper Museum. (Bear in mind that the Musée du Papier Peint in Rixheim, France is temporarily closed for renovations.)

One wallpaper that captures that mix of restoration, history, and ornament is La Belle Otero. On Instagram, Le Presse Papier describes the design as a damaged archive that required extensive restoration before returning as a wallpaper in four colorways.

The house connects the pattern to nineteenth-century historicism, then traces its flourishes through seventeenth-century Indienne flowers, Iranian Kashmir motifs, and the scrolling arabesques of Napoleon III bronzes. Pictured above, the paper is dense with curling floral forms in red, rose, brown, and muted blue against a warm ground. It is decorative in the fullest sense of the word and we love it.

Maison Baluchon

Maison Baluchon began in 2012 between Paris and Chaumont, and the house still ties its identity to Haute-Marne as much as to the capital. On its site, the brand describes patterns shaped by forests, wildlife, heritage, and travel, with production kept close to home through workshops located within fifty kilometers of the office.

That local structure runs alongside a long list of collaborations, which gives the house a wider reach than its scale might suggest. Maison Baluchon has worked with talented artists and iconic locations, including RMN-Grand Palais, alinéa, Christian Lacroix, Balzac Paris, the Opéra Garnier, and the Château de Versailles, among others. The wallpaper line sits beside accessories, decoration, and custom work, but the printed motifs are unique and the details are stunning.

One wallpaper that captures the house well is Sauvage N°25. On Instagram, Maison Baluchon frames it as a feather motif for a warmer, more cocooning room, available in standard dimensions or made to measure. Pictured above, the pattern is dense and layered, with dark feathered forms scattered across a pale ground in browns, creams, taupes, and near-black. The effect is decorative but not precious. It has warmth, a little drama, and just enough irregularity to be interesting but not overly chaotic.

If you’d like to view Maison Baluchon in person, the brand welcomes visitors by appointment to its showroom space at 7 rue Decrès, 52000 Chaumont in Haute-Marne.

Maison Lévy

Founded in 2006 in Paris, Maison Lévy specializes in textiles and wallpapers for interiors. On its site, the house describes its catalog as a timeless and exclusive collection of more than 120 prints designed and made in France. The family story is central to this brand. Geneviève Lévy Bonomo founded the company around the paintings of Haby Bonomo, and since 2016, Nina Bonomo has directed Maison Lévy with one eye on that inheritance and another on her own sense of color and pattern. The house also offers bespoke wallpaper, with custom sketches and quotes prepared from room measurements, then produced in the south of France.

One recent print that captures Maison Lévy well is IBERÁ. On Instagram, the house pairs the new panoramic wallpaper with the RÉVERBÈRES linen on an armchair and a DOMINGO velvet cushion, then points out how naturally the patterns mix. Pictured above, the wall has a painterly landscape with blurred palms, a streaked shoreline, and a wash of blue, green, ochre, and cream that resembles a true painting much more than a conventional repeat.

If you’d like to view products from Maison Lévy in person before you order, the house welcomes showroom visits by appointment at 20 rue Taylor, 75010 Paris.

Quelques dernières notes

French wallpaper is hardly a niche obsession, having captured our hearts and minds for centuries, but these five houses make a strong case for French wallpaper right now. From panoramic landscapes to restored archives and hand-drawn botanical motifs, each one brings its own POV on pattern, color, and craft.

Written by the DesignDash Editorial Team
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