TUMBLEWEED WALLPAPER
THE STORY OF HOW THE TUMBLEWEED WALLPAPER CAME TO BETumbleweeds caught my attention the first time I went to the west to meet Cy's family at their cattle ranch, The HC Cattle Company on the outskirts of Dalhart,Texas. I was drawn to the way they playfully bounced along the landscape. Growing up in the North East I had not seen them before.The catalyst to make a pattern from a tumbleweed was the recent drought and the overwhelming amount of tumbleweeds that were blowing around the ranch. Cy's cousin, Whitney Gilliam, kindly photographed a single tumbleweed from the piles of weeds. We played around with pattern ideas in Los Angeles as an attempt to make lemonade out of lemons as the tumbleweeds and drought are a very hard thing to live through.
A video from the Ranch of the Tumbleweeds blowing along.
Playing with the pattern at our LA studio
At the printers reviewing the test prints
Charles and Ray Eames were also fascinated with Tumbleweeds and displayed them in the Herman Miller Showroom.
Here we are at our home office in Los Angeles when we were reviewing the colorways fresh off the press. A little write up on the Tumbleweed Wallpaper Collection in the Huffington Post can be read here.