Admittedly, I stalked the most recent Designer Pages event in New York City and instantly felt like it is almost time for me to make the trek back to that beautiful, big city. Starry-eyed and in my internet search mode for the coolest intertwining of NYC and design, I stumbled upon a cool wallpaper design known as NYC Watertowers that was created by Tom Slaughter and is available through the boutique wallpaper design company, Cavern Home.

NYC Watertowers. Designed by Tom Slaughter.

Slaughter, Made the NYC Watertowers Wallpaper for the New York in Us All

As the treated paper information surfaced post-printmaking career, I realized that Tom Slaughter created this graphic design as an absolute New Yorker native. This was not an observation from an outsider, this was a man who had been born in the Big Apple in 1955. His career as an artist has included some thirty solo exhibitions in from the east to the west coast as well as shows abroad in Vancouver, Germany and Japan.

Printmaking was his forté for over 20 years, and examples of his prints have been installed inside the MoMA and Whitney Museum of American Art collections. In other words, his NYC Watertowers design is simply an example of the beautiful work Slaughter has created thus far in his life. In addition to the muted white and black, shadow or sunset coloring of this artist edition wallpaper, two other wallpapers – that may or may not require a pair of sunglasses after viewing his NYC Watertowers pattern – are available in their bright-colored glory on the Cavern Home site. These two patterns are abstract and playful in their own right, using primary colors and color blocking to display the Library and Nautical Nantucket patterns.

Even though the design is reminiscent of New York, the NYC Watertowers wallpaper by Tom Slaughter is the type of interior design backsplash that does not distract from a bright piece of furniture.