Graham & Brown has launched a new wallpaper collection celebrating 80 years of design. The collection honours four generations of creativity, innovation and craftsmanship that have shaped the brand since its beginnings in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1946.
The collection brings together 8 iconic designs for 8 iconic decades in Graham & Brown’s 80-year story. Created by the Graham & Brown family, design studio and colleagues who have been part of the brand’s journey, it is a heartfelt celebration of the people, creativity and shared moments that have shaped the business into where it is today.
Launching on 2 February 2026, Graham & Brown’s official 80th birthday. This collection reimagines 8 archive designs in contemporary new ways. Each design tells a chapter of the Graham & Brown story, inviting customers to celebrate heritage while creating loving homes for modern life.
Renaissance draws inspiration from the very first wallpaper ever produced by Graham & Brown, this landmark design emerged from the company’s printing presses in 1946. Paying homage to the glamour of Art Deco, our studio has reimagined this timeless motif for the modern home, unveiling a fresh expression of heritage in three beautiful colourways.
The name Watery Lane flows from the earliest chapters of Graham & Brown’s story. Long before the company became a household name, founders Harold Graham and Henry Brown ran a small wallpaper shop in the 1930s at Intack on Accrington Road.
Nearby stood Water Street Mill, where the very first rolls of Graham & Brown wallpaper were produced, close to the aptly named Watery Lane. In 1946, the duo purchased India Mill on Haygarth Street, expanding it throughout the 1970s as demand for their designs flourished. Watery Lane Wallpaper pays quiet tribute to these humble beginnings.
Daisyfield blooms from a cherished chapter in Graham & Brown’s history. In the early 1970s, as the business grew, the brand acquired Daisyfield Mill in Blackburn, a space that marked a new era of growth and creativity. With florals forever woven into the fabric of Graham & Brown’s design language, the brand wanted to honour this legacy and the light hearted spirit through the Daisyfield name.
Desire pays tribute to one of Graham & Brown’s most enduring motifs: the Damask. Loved since the brand’s earliest days, it feels only fitting to reinterpret this classic pattern as part of the 80-year celebration. From the traditional printing presses of the past to adorning the outside of India Mill, this design continues to captivate today in homes around the world. Recreating the ornate flourishes in new colourways gives the design a contemporary edge.
Inspired by a treasured archive design, Midsummer is lovingly reimagined by the Graham & Brown studio. The pink and silver colourway carries a special sense of nostalgia, fondly remembered by Iona from her childhood bedroom, now elevated with a fresh and contemporary new look.
Just as today’s digital ‘factory of the future’ drives innovation, Graham & Brown transformed UK manufacturing decades earlier with the introduction of rotary screen printing, led by the second generation of the Graham & Brown families.
First launched as brilliantly simple designs that were white, easy to hang and easy to remove. Design 314, inspired by Art Deco styling, quickly became a bestseller and remains a firm favourite with decorators and customers alike. Reimagined for this collection, it celebrates timeless appeal and enduring innovation.
As the collections grow, so does the story. The late 1980s mark a new chapter with the opening of the Roman Road warehouse, a purpose-built space designed to house an expanding and increasingly innovative range. Around the same time, the brand’s first retail shops open across the North West bringing Graham & Brown designs closer to the homes that inspire them. In a full circle moment, Graham & Brown opened their first showroom on the King’s Road in London in September 2025.
Echoing this spirit of creativity and reinvention, the Roman design draws on the grandeur of classical still life, inspired by an archive piece from the early 1990s.
Originally launched in 2014 as a heavyweight vinyl texture, the iconic black Crocodile design quickly becomes a bestseller and remains a firm favourite to this day. Reimagined for the 80-year collection, Crocodile is elevated with added texture, celebrating a design the Graham & Brown community continues to love and style in their homes. The design features luxurious flock detailing that highlights the scales of the crocodile texture, creating a soft, raised finish that invites touch as much as it catches the eye.
This collection is more than wallpaper. It’s a celebration of 80 years of passion, creativity and the loving homes our designs have helped shape along the way. Whether you’re drawn to heritage patterns or modern textures, each design offers a piece of the Graham & Brown story and is ready to become part of yours.
About Graham & Brown
Founded in 1946 by two friends, Harold Graham and Henry Brown, Graham & Brown is a British fourth-generation family-run interiors brand based in Blackburn, Lancashire. For nearly 80 years, Graham & Brown has inspired people to think differently about their homes through continuous innovation, creativity, and craftsmanship. Designing wallpapers, paint, murals, soft furnishings, bed linen, and wall art from its in-house studio and drawing on inspiration from an archive of over 50,000 pieces. A carbon-neutral company, Graham & Brown uses sustainably sourced paper and water-based paints. Wallpaper and murals are digitally printed in their state of the art ‘Factory of the Future.’
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This May, Graham & Brown brings art into the home with the launch of its exclusive TATE collection, in the form of 32 fully customisable wall murals. These showcase some beautiful works of art by artists, including J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, Ethel Walker, Jessica Dismorr and Vincent Van Gogh.
Rosey Blackmore, Licensing and Merchandise Director at TATE:
“We are thrilled to be working with Graham & Brown on a collection of murals which gives people the chance to live with the art they love. Our mission at Tate is all about encouraging the enjoyment of art- and we believe that these products will truly do that.”
Alan Kemp, Head of Brand at Graham & Brown:
“We [Graham & Brown] are privileged to have had the opportunity to browse the TATE collection and choose some exquisite works of art to create some of the most stunning custom murals available. It has been a truly exhilarating project to work on. As TATE has a vast archive containing some of the most iconic pieces of art in the world, we had some tough decisions to make, but we are thrilled to be able to bring these great pieces into the home. Why frame your favourite painting when you can have a wall full of it, or your very own ceiling mural? Your favourite piece of art your way, is only limited by your imagination.”
This exclusive range of murals includes works from Dutch pioneer of abstract art, Piet Mondrian, who developed from early landscape pictures to geometric abstract works such as Composition with Yellow, Blue & Red (1935). Contrastingly, Victor Pasmore's Spiral Motif in Green, Violet, Blue and Gold: The Coast of the Indian Sea (1950), presents a harmony of colourful curvilinear forms, a striking piece, perfect for creating a focal point in any room.
British artist, Jessica Dismorr's, Abstract Composition (1915) features a series of pastel-coloured geometric forms, reminiscent of architectural components, overlapping on a black ground. A dark yellow triangular prism with a curved side provides a vertical focus and splits the composition in two. Another mural featuring Dismorr's works is Related Forms (1937), an abstract nature of works comprising of cooling blue hues.
Fully customisable to meet customers' specifications and dimensions, Graham & Brown's online easy-to-use, made-to-measure tool allows customers to personalise each of Graham & Brown's unique mural designs to their walls, making them easy to hang with minimal waste.
The range of Graham & Brown paper substrates allow the mural to be personalised even further. Handpicked by Graham & Brown studio, the selection of premium paper finishes each offer a key feature or benefit. From 'Premium Fabric Effect' , a woven textured finish perfect for masking existing wall imperfections, to 'Mica Fibrous' a luxurious lustre which shimmers in the light, you can choose a finish which is guaranteed to suit your personal style. The mural production is powered by renewable energy, it uses water-based inks and all papers come from sustainable sources.
Cover image: Sleter - A Representation of the Liberal Arts. Designed for the ceiling of the State Dining Room of Grimsthorpe Castle, this early 18th century oil painting created the illusion of a golden, coved ceiling which spills into the godly world. It features Minerva, goddess of wisdom and the arts, and Mercury, identified with reason and learning.
For over seventy-five years, Graham & Brown has inspired people to think people differently about their walls through continuous innovation, creativity, and craftsmanship. Graham & Brown has created an extensive archive of over 30,000 pieces, comprising of in-house designs and historic works, some dating back over two hundred years. Each day this archive grows as the Graham & Brown design team create artwork in Blackburn, Holland, and France. The UK's leading wallpaper manufacturer, Graham & Brown has expanded its collection to include paint, murals, wall art and soft furnishings. The brand leads the way in technology and innovation with an augmented reality app that enables users to visualise pattern and colour on a wall.
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