Wall/Pepper has built its reputation in Italy on treating wallpaper as a material problem as much as a decorative one, developing eco-friendly, fully customizable papers produced across eight distinct material types, from soft-touch finishes to sound-absorbing and water-resistant surfaces suited to bathrooms and kitchens. That range gives the Milan-based brand room to move between very different design languages from one collection to the next, and Nordic | Hygge, part of its 2026 catalogue, is where that range gets pointed toward the Alps.
The collection works from a specific reference: clear mountain air and high-altitude flora, reinterpreted and softened into a refined decorative language that transforms the colorful, spontaneous force of untamed nature into designs meant to evoke deep emotion. That’s a narrower brief than “Nordic landscapes” suggests on its own, pointing specifically to alpine flora and atmosphere rather than the wider Scandinavian design vocabulary the name might otherwise imply.
The collection sits alongside others in the same 2026 line, including an Opus range built around painterly, sky-and-earth imagery, and a separate Déchiré Collection developed with artist Luca Artioli using a torn-paper collage technique applied to wallpaper for the first time. Nordic | Hygge takes a more restrained route by comparison, working through pattern and finish rather than collage or mixed materiality, closer to how the brand has historically approached nature-based design.
That restraint carries into how the designs can actually be specified. Every graphic in the catalogue, Nordic | Hygge included, can be produced across the brand’s full material range, and designs can also be recolored or developed as fully bespoke work, which Wall/Pepper treats as standard practice on architectural projects rather than a premium add-on.
Where Nordic | Hygge distinguishes itself is in intent rather than in a single visual signature: wallpaper used to bring an outdoor, alpine reference indoors, applied through a catalogue system built to adapt to nearly any interior condition—humid, acoustic-sensitive, or otherwise.
