One way to make a room truly special is to cover the walls with Gracie’s hand-painted wallpaper. Gracie is a family-run business that Charles R. Gracie founded in New York City in 1898. Gracie originally created custom lamps, but started selling Asian antiques in the 1920s and 1930s. The company began offering hand-painted wallpapers after one of Charles Gracie's friends, who was a textile trader, brought some back from Beijing. The company is best known for these beautiful wallpapers, which are still hand painted in China by a studio that has been managed by the same Chinese family for the past fifty years. For homeowners who don't want to paper an entire wall, a framed panel or two of the hand-painted wallpaper can add a touch of Gracie to any room.
"Gracie restored the [dining] room's antique wallpaper, which once belonged to publisher Conde Nast; its design motif was hand-painted on the window shades."
New York City penthouse of decorator Michael S. Smith and HBO executive James Costos.
Interior design by Michael S. Smith.
Text by Judith Thurman.
Photography by Bjorn Wallander.
"L'Art de Vivre" produced by Carolina Irving.
Architectural Digest (September 2012).
"Detail of the Gracie wallpaper."
New York City penthouse of decorator Michael S. Smith and HBO executive James Costos.
Interior design by Michael S. Smith.
Text by Judith Thurman.
Photography by Bjorn Wallander.
"L'Art de Vivre" produced by Carolina Irving.
Architectural Digest (September 2012).
Dressing room in the Manhattan apartment of Aerin Lauder, style and image director of Estee Lauder, who has started a new lifestyle brand, AERIN.
Gracie wall covering, chandelier by Bagues, circa-1970 desk by Gabriella Crespi.
Photography by Simon Upton.
"At Home With Stylesetter Aerin Lauder"
Elle Decor (July - August 2009).
"A Gracie chinoiserie wallpaper wraps the dining room,
which is furnished with an 18th-century English table and chairs."
Home in Marin County, California.
Interior design by Suzanne Rheinstein.
Architect: Ken Linsteadt.
Text by Peter Haldeman.
Photography by Francesco Lagnese.
"Fascinating Rhythm" produced by Robert Rufino.
Architectural Digest (December 2011).
"The dining room's Gracie wallpaper depicts Mississippi River scenes."
Home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Interior design by Richard Keith Langham.
Text by Julia Reed.
Photography by Pieter Estersohn.
"State of Grace" produced by Howard Christian.
Architectural Digest (March 2011).
"Hand-painted wallpaper by Gracie adds shimmer to the dining room."
New York City apartment of Nina Bauer and Andrew Shapiro.
Interior design by Penny Drue Baird of Dessins.
Text by Dan Shaw.
Photography by Simon Upton.
"Calm, Cool, Collected" produced by Howard Christian.
Architectural Digest (May 2011).
"A four-foot-high pagoda in the dining room of a Brookville, New York, house 'is just here to make people smile.' . . . The silver tea-leaf wallpaper is from Gracie."
Interior design by Andrew Raquet.
Photography by Jose Picayo.
"The Glamour of Gray" interview by Emily Evans Eerdmans.
House Beautiful (September 2010).
"Hand-painted chinoiserie wallpaper by Gracie forms a backdrop to the master suite's Italian neoclassical bed, which is dressed in Nancy Koltes linens."
Manhattan apartment of Ali Wentworth and George Stephanopoulos.
Interior design by Michael S. Smith.
Text by Ali Wentworth.
Photography by Scott Frances.
"At a Moment's Notice" produced by Robert Rufino.
Architectural Digest (March 2012).
Decorator Suzanne Rheinstein "brought the dining room to life with a vibrant, scenic Chinese wallpaper by Gracie. . . . [Rheinstein] loves painted pieces against rich, dark woods, so she paired chalky Gustavian dining chairs
with an antique English mahogany table."
Prewar apartment in New York City.
Interior design by Suzanne Rheinstein.
Interview by Mimi Read.
Photography by Francois Dischinger.
"Have Fewer Things, But Better Things" produced by Sabine Rothman.
Styled by Olga Naiman.
House Beautiful (May 2012).
"A mirror by John Rosselli Antiques and Decorations hangs above a Gustavian settee covered in a Claremont cotton-silk; the painted floor is by Bob Christian, and the walls and ceiling are sheathed in wallpapers by Gracie."
New York Pied-a-Terre of Los Angeles decorator Suzanne Rheinstein.
Interior design by Suzanne Rheinstein.
Text by Julia Reed.
Photography by Roger Davies.
"The Age of Elegance" produced by Anita Sarsidi.
Elle Decor (November 2010).
"Vintage tea-paper wall panels, Gracie."
Master bedroom of Philadelphia apartment.
Interior design by Carl Steele.
Photography by John Hall.
Styled by Olga Naiman.
"City Comforts" text by Linda O'Keeffe.
Veranda (March 2011).
"Above the Eliases' bed is a Bert Stern image of Marilyn Monroe,
flanked by silk panels by Gracie."
Sao Paulo home of architect Jorge Elias and his wife, Lucila.
Text by Raul Barreneche.
Photography by Roger Davies.
"Tropical Baroque" produced by Carlos Mota.
Architectural Digest (February 2012).
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