From the ancient Greeks and Renaissance masters to recent tricksters such as Fornasetti and Banksy, trompe l’oeil has long been a playfully powerful visual idiom. It’s the perfect crossroads where decoration meets fine art—and we think it’s time for its comeback.
Schumacher’s Trompe L’Oeil Collection embraces the tradition’s more lighthearted, gestural side. Here, take a tour through our favorite trompe l’oeil moments.
Marcel wallpaper by Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
For her much-loved and recently shuttered shop, Hollyhock, designer Suzanne Rheinstein commissioned a vignette full of trompe l’oeil touches by painter Paulin Paris.
La Galerie wallpaper by Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Diana wallpaper by Charlap Hyman & Herrero for Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Drapery wallpaper by Paul Poiret for Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Frescoes as fanciful architectural riff, by poet and artist Jean Cocteau at Villa Santo Sospir in the South of France, c. 1950.
In a powder room by the Wiseman Group, the chest, mirror and walls are all embellished with painterly trompe-l’oeil strokes.
PRODUCED BY TORI MELLOTT AND HUDSON MOORE
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