New Zealand-born, UK-based designer Cassandra Ellis always seems to toe the line between design and something more. She described the land around one project as “like walking through a sonnet”. About another space—Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge—she wrote, “The magic is that it isn’t officially interior decorated; it is instead a long and rambling poem revealing someone’s life.” With her touch, rooms can feel, themselves, like verses.
Ellis has as much a way with color as she does with words, so it’s no surprise we are taken by her newest paint collection: the cheerily named Waving & Smiling, just released from her own Atelier Ellis. Take a look.
Photography by Kalina Krawczyk via Atelier Ellis.
![\2\20;taking a walk to my house, here are all the things i want to show 17](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/totara-atelier-ellis-waving-and-smiling-kalina-krawczyk-733x1100.jpg)
![jam, \2\20;a dark and deliciously blackened red.\2\2\1; 18](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/jam-atelier-ellis-waving-and-smiling-kalina-krawczyk-733x1100.jpg)
![amrita\2\17;s green is \2\20;a curtsy to storyteller amrita sher 19](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/amritas-green-atelier-ellis-waving-and-smiling-kalina-krawczyk-733x1100.jpg)
![and block print yellow is handmade, calling on natural dyeing techniques. 20](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/block-print-yellow-atelier-ellis-waving-and-smiling-kalina-krawczyk-733x1100.jpg)
![the \2\20;calm, shadowy, and restful\2\2\1; lulling. 21](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/lulling-atelier-ellis-waving-and-smiling-kalina-krawczyk-733x1100.jpg)
![lemoine, \2\20;a delightfully complex lilac.\2\2\1; 22](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/lemoine-atelier-ellis-waving-and-smiling-kalina-krawczyk-733x1100.jpg)
![a hutch is painted in the lush, ripe summer pudding. 23](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/summer-pudding-atelier-ellis-waving-and-smiling-kalina-krawczyk-733x1100.jpg)
![and cass, \2\20;a use everywhere neutral tone.\2\2\1; 24](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cass-atelier-ellis-waving-and-smiling-kalina-krawczyk-733x1100.jpg)
To see the full collection, head to Atelier Ellis. And for more of Ellis’ work, see:
- Expert Advice: Developing Style with Designer Cassandra Ellis
- In the Stillness: A 1640s Georgian in an Affecting Palette by Cassandra Ellis
- Like Walking Through a Sonnet: A Serene East Sussex Barn by Cassandra Ellis
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