Art and tradition, environmental focus, digital technology: the wallpapers of Laur Meyrieux are works that combine art and design. With the evocative impact of age-old crafts, they bring a unique character, suspended in time, to any space where they are utilized.
Laur Meyrieux is a Parisian artist and designer who works as a creative director for European and Asian companies like Hermès, Restir, Shu Uemura, Perrier-Jouët, Agnès b, Chanel and Toulemonde Bochart, for which she has created a collection of carpets.
Her works take their inspiration from Japanese aesthetics and the ancient Shibori dyeing technique, a form of artistic expression without limits: the material wrinkles and vibrates; the dye is diluted and comes to life in creations that make the observer dream, in a voyage of mind and spirit.
The creation of the wallpapers begins with the selection of the material, papers made in Asia with natural fibers, which the designer then processes, folding, twisting, bundling before dyeing them with inks, natural pigments and mineral powders. After these creative phases, she photographs the work for digital post-production, enhancing the material and developing the chromatic variations of the collection.
After graduating in design at the School of Fine Arts of Saint-Etienne and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris, Laur Meyrieux explores the ambiguity of forms in art and design, consolidating various forms of expertise as a designer of furniture, interiors and theater sets, while working as an artistic director. Always a lover of Japan and its culture, in 2000 she opened her first studio in Tokyo. After 11 years in Japan, in 2012 she moved to Hong Kong.
During her years in Asia Laur began to produce ink paintings, and parallel to her work as an artist she has used some of these pieces to develop wallpaper in the “domino” format, using a technique that dates back to 1750, juxtaposing panels of 60 x 85 cm to create unique compositions.
In 2021 her first collection of ecosustainable wallpapers was produced in France; the domino was joined by other formats: rolls, panoramas, friezes, with a multitude of compositional possibilities.
Focusing on the environmental emergency, Laur supports Reforest’Action: a percentage of all the sales of her collection is donated to this organization, which over the last ten years has worked to preserve, regenerate and create forests in France and the world.
