A tourist's dream of our city set in line drawings, Chicago is the newest pattern from Town Toiles. Town Toiles is a line of wallpaper and fabric which uses modern U.S. cities and destinations as its subject instead of the traditional pastoral scenery. As of this month, Chicago has the distinction of being immortalized in a toile.
The take on traditional toile du Jouy features the Chicago Theater marquee, Navy Pier, the Art Institute lions, Buckingham fountain, the river bridges, the Marshall Field's clock, and, of course, the skyline and lake.
Super-kitschy and sort-of sweet, the Chicago toile joins the patterns of New York, San Francisco and Boston among the cities represented.
From Town Toiles.
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No Millenium Park? When was it designed?
$55 per roll?? I've never bought wallpaper but that seems very steep. And, you have to buy two rolls! Wow.
Dave, it's not wallpaper, it's fabric.
Still expensive, but for an accent (I'd love it for a bed skirt or pillows) I think it's wonderful...
I was looking at this page. Seems they also sell wallpaper, but not in the Chicago print.
http://www.towntoiles.com/Wallpaper_s/6.htm
Timorous Beasties said they were planning to make a Chicago toile as well (like their famous Glasgow toile). That's the one *I'm* waiting to see!
It seems like you can't actually purchase the Chicago fabric yet. Am I missing something?
I have just been to Town Toiles' flagship store in Tampa and seen the Tampa wallpapers and fabrics. The thoughtful detail in the artwork and the quality with which they have been produced make both, in my book, well priced. Now I have to decide what to recover first!