When the team at Wallshoppe reached out about shooting some of our pieces in their latest campaign, I didn't hesitate. I just said yes — and then immediately started thinking about why it felt so right.

Because here's the thing. Wallpaper and antiques aren't just two things that happen to look good together. They share a language. They come from the same world — one where rooms were designed to feel considered, layered, intentional. Where a wall wasn't just a wall. It was part of the composition.

Two centuries apart and they still finish each other's sentences.

Walk through any grand European home built in the 18th or 19th century and you'll see it immediately — hand-blocked wallpaper alongside hand-built furniture. Pattern and patina in the same room, on purpose. The wallpaper gave the room mood. The furniture gave it weight. Together, they made a space feel alive and complete in a way that no single element could.

That's exactly what happened on this shoot. Wallshoppe brought their prints — bold, beautiful, made in Los Angeles — and we brought our antiques. And in room after room, especially the nurseries, it just worked. An 18th century French commode against a modern floral print. A weathered European piece anchoring a room full of fresh, playful pattern. Old wood and new paper, and somehow neither one was trying to outshine the other. They were collaborating.

Why this pairing works — actually works.

I think about this a lot when I'm styling the showroom. The pieces that stop people are never floating in a vacuum. They're in context. They have something to play against — a piece of art overhead, a lamp with character, a textile with texture. Antiques need a backdrop that lets them breathe without competing. And wallpaper, the right wallpaper, does exactly that.

Wallshoppe gets this instinctively. They're LA-based, design-forward, and their approach to wallpaper is a lot like ours with antiques — it's personal, it's curated, and it's meant to make a room feel like yours. They've collaborated with everyone from Nathan Turner to Sarah Jessica Parker, and what runs through all of it is a commitment to pattern that feels alive, not precious. Wallpaper you actually want to live with.

Which is exactly how I feel about our furniture. Antiques you actually want to live with. Not museum pieces behind a velvet rope. Pieces with presence, with soul, with a story that started long before you — and a wallpaper that gives that story a room worth being told in.

A nursery is not where you'd expect to find a 200-year-old piece. That's the point.

Some of the most beautiful images from this shoot were in nurseries. And I know what you might be thinking — antiques in a baby's room? But honestly, that's what made it special. A soft, whimsical wallpaper paired with an antique chest or a small European table — it creates this layered quality that no amount of matching nursery sets from a catalog can replicate.

Kevin always says the best pieces are the ones that move through your life with you. A child grows up in a room with character, with something real and handmade and old, and they absorb that. The piece doesn't stay in the nursery forever — it migrates to a hallway, a living room, a first apartment. It becomes part of the family's story. And it started with a room that someone cared enough to make beautiful from the very beginning.

That's what I saw in these photos. Not just styling. Not just a collaboration between two brands. A room with a heartbeat.

The timeless part isn't a marketing word. It's the actual point.

We say "timeless" so much in design that it's almost lost its meaning. But when you put a piece of furniture that's survived two hundred years next to a wallpaper pattern inspired by centuries of printmaking tradition, you're looking at something that has earned the word. These aren't trends sitting next to each other. They're two things that have always belonged together, just waiting for someone to put them in the same room again.

I'm grateful to Wallshoppe for seeing what we see — that antiques aren't relics. They're design elements with more depth and story than anything you could manufacture today. And when you pair them with walls that have their own personality, their own warmth, their own point of view? That's when a house starts to feel collected.

That's when it starts to feel like home.

— Dina xx

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