Calico Wallpaper Introduces Luminous, a New Collection with Suchi Reddy Exploring Light, Color, and Perception
Debuting during NYCxDESIGN in an immersive installation at Calico Wallpaper’s Tribeca showroom.
New York, NY (May 15, 2026) — Calico Wallpaper presents Luminous, a new collection created in collaboration with architect and designer Suchi Reddy. Rooted in Reddy’s pioneering work in neuroaesthetics, the collection explores how light and color are experienced in architectural space - at once deeply personal and universally resonant.
Rather than treating light as purely visual, Luminous considers it as sensation: something that shapes perception, mood, and emotional resonance. Each design reflects the dynamic interplay between environment and individual - how the same spectrum of color can evoke entirely different responses depending on memory, context, and the energy we bring to a space.
“Collaborating with Suchi was a deeply inspiring process,” says Rachel Cope, Creative Director of Calico Wallpaper. “Her perspective on light brought a beautiful dimension to the work, resulting in designs that feel atmospheric, introspective, and quietly radiant.”
Through layered gradients and atmospheric transitions, the collection captures light as it moves, diffuses, and transforms. Colors unfold not as fixed surfaces, but as immersive fields - subtle, shifting, and alive - mirroring the ways we perceive and process the world around us.
The designs are presented across six distinct colorways - Awaken, Beam, Brilliant, Emanate, Flash, and Lucent - each offering a unique emotional and perceptual experience. From soft, rising luminosity to saturated, expansive fields of color, each palette reflects a different register of energy and atmosphere, inviting individual interpretation.
Luminous will debut during NYCxDESIGN through an immersive installation that explores the intersection of color, sensation, and emotion. The presentation invites visitors to move through shifting environments of light and tone, experiencing firsthand how subtle variations in color can alter perception and feeling. The installation is open May 15th to May 19th from 10am – 6pm.
ABOUT SUCHI REDDY
Suchi Reddy, FAIA, is a designer, architect, and artist whose work explores the intersection of design, perception, and human well-being. As the founder of Reddymade, a New York–based practice established in 2002, Reddy has developed a multidisciplinary body of work spanning architecture, interior design, and public art installations. Guided by her philosophy that “form follows feeling,” her practice integrates neuroaesthetics and architecture to create environments that positively shape human experience.
Across residential, hospitality, and retail projects, Reddy’s work is characterized by a sensitivity to how spaces feel, fostering calm, comfort, and connection. Her residential and institutional architecture creates intimate environments that support creativity, rest, and belonging, while her public installations evoke wonder and empowerment. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), Reddy is also a prolific speaker and educator, and teaches at GSAPP at Columbia University and The Cooper Union.
ABOUT CALICO WALLPAPER
Calico Wallpaper is a designer of bespoke wallpaper. The company was founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 2013 by creative and life partners Nicholas and Rachel Cope. Their process combines artisanal methods from the decorative arts, such as traditional marbling and dip-dyeing techniques, with innovative technologies. Calico Wallpaper works with a global roster of leading designers and architects. In addition to residential and hospitality projects, Calico Wallpaper’s designs have been exhibited internationally at Milan Design Week and London Design Festival and have obtained a place in the permanent collection at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 2021, Calico Wallpaper opened its first showroom at 57 Lispenard Street, New York, NY, with partner and furniture manufacturer Stellar Works.