Since its creation in 2004, Münchausen has become a benchmark for wall-paper, stickers and tiling. The patterns proposed in the two flagship collections, “Palm Springs” and “Toiles de Jouy”, continue to confuse the issue for the greater pleasure of unrepentant fans. Objects from flea-markets, micro-scenes with transgressive tones, decorum inspired by Hitchcock, all borrow a very graphic, 18th-century vocabulary, both encyclopædic and amusing. As per the wishes of the two designers, Philippe Rossetti and Simon Pillard, trompe-l’œil becomes a stage for anecdotes, with a tendency towards mythology. A bust of Heraclitus serving as the backcloth for a sculpture, motifs inspired by an engraving by Dürer, the Eiffel Tower rising above a pile of books are all pretexts for enrichment. Sometimes pedantic, the approach nevertheless rehabilitates secular forms in subtle and universal presentations. www.sainthonorewallpapers.com.
