Inspirations

“Take a Walk to My House”: A New Paint Collection from Atelier Ellis

New Zealand-born, UK-based designer Cassandra Ellis always seems to toe the line between design and something more. She described the land around one project as “like walking through a sonnet”. About another space—Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge—she wrote, “The magic is that it isn’t officially interior decorated; it is instead a long and rambling poem revealing someone’s life.” With her touch, rooms can feel, themselves, like verses.

Ellis has as much a way with color as she does with words, so it’s no surprise we are taken by her newest paint collection: the cheerily named Waving & Smiling, just released from her own Atelier Ellis. Take a look.

Photography by Kalina Krawczyk via Atelier Ellis.

“taking a walk to my house, here are all the things i want to show  9
Above: “Taking a walk to my house, here are all the things I want to show you,” Ellis writes on her site about the new collection. The 12 new colors “encourage us to connect and celebrate individual choice at home and of place.” The Totara hue, shown here, is “named after the legendary New Zealand tree.”
jam, “a dark and deliciously blackened red.” 10
Above: Jam, “a dark and deliciously blackened red.”
amrita’s green is “a curtsy to storyteller amrita sher  11
Above: Amrita’s Green is “a curtsy to storyteller Amrita Sher-Gil,” the Hungarian-Indian painter.

and block print yellow is handmade, calling on natural dyeing techniques. 12
Above: And Block Print Yellow is handmade, calling on natural dyeing techniques.
the “calm, shadowy, and restful” lulling. 13
Above: The “calm, shadowy, and restful” Lulling.
lemoine, “a delightfully complex lilac.” 14
Above: Lemoine, “a delightfully complex lilac.”
a hutch is painted in the lush, ripe summer pudding. 15
Above: A hutch is painted in the lush, ripe Summer Pudding.
and cass, “a use everywhere neutral tone.” 16
Above: And Cass, “a use-everywhere neutral tone.”

To see the full collection, head to Atelier Ellis. And for more of Ellis’ work, see: