“No other decorative device or object can accomplish so much per dollar as wallpaper.” That’s the midcentury decorator Michael Greer, writing in his gem of a book “Inside Design ...

The Art of French Wallpaper Design is the luscious ... and dynamic patterns and borders. Is wallpaper out of style? I hope not, but if it is, the RISD show will be a revelation.

Image Detail from Mr. Raftery’s summer-inspired wallpaper.Credit ... Researching the history of wallpaper, he learned about the French tradition of producing it on small sheets.

The potential impact of wallpaper, which “covers literally ... which are interpreted “in a very French style.” But nonetheless, it, too, is laying its fabrics open to revisionism.

Guest of honour and head of the international jury for the Design Prize (and also Wallpaper* Design of the Year ... as shapes carved into walls and surfaces (inspired by those he found across the ...