Wayne Pate arrived in New York as a high school dropout from Dallas with no plans. Fortunately, he had a friend in advertising, which led to a starter position in the firm’s art department. Pate learned graphic design on the job and went on to spend years as an in-demand freelance art director and designer, creating his own street-wear line, doing graphics for the Gap, making prints–and, along the way, meeting his wife, New Zealand–born fashion designer Rebecca Taylor.
The couple have three children and live in a Brooklyn townhouse where Pate now devotes his days to making art. Studio Four NYC, a boutique fabric and wallpaper company based in Chelsea, discovered Pate’s work through fellow artist Rebecca Atwood and has just come out with its second Wayne Pate collection. Adapted from paintings in his sketchbooks, the designs hearken to Matisse’s Paris (think the Fauvists, Sonia Delaunay, André Derain), but with Pate’s own playful and graphic spin. Of late, he’s also begun doodling on ceramics and the occasional lampshade, which he sells, along with his paintings, on his website and via Instagram (@waynepate). Here are our favorites.
Photography courtesy of Studio Four NYC, unless noted.
![pate at work in his brooklyn townhouse, which is featured in the april issue of 17](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/artist-wayne-pate-at-home-brooklyn-photo-matthew-williams-1-733x530.jpg)
Wallpaper, Fabric, and Pillows
![studio four nyc\2\17;s latest wayne pate designs include casablanca wall 18](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/wayne-pate-for-studio-four-marrakech-wallpaper-ultramarine-733x1100.jpg)
![petite seaweed linen, \$\140 a yard, is hand screen printed on belgian linen (a 19](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/wayne-pate-for-studio-four-nyc-petite-seaweed-lagoon-733x733.jpg)
![lotus patterned trois blooms, \$67.50 per roll, is shown in blush. 20](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/wayne-pate-studio-four-nyc0-trois-blooms-blush-733x733.jpg)
![exotic fruit wallpaper, a botanical stripe, is \$67.50 per yard; 8 by \10 sampl 21](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/studio-four-nyc-wayne-pate-wallpaper-733x733.jpg)
![memories of his wife at their bungalow on shelter island inspired rebecca&# 22](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/wayne-pate-for-studio-four-rebeccas-garden-linen-733x733.jpg)
![petite zoebel, which pate describes as \2\20;two joined flowers,\ 23](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/studio-four-nyc-wayne-pate-petite-zoebel-733x733.jpg)
Ceramics
![a commission to create a wall of plates for an art collector led pate to start 24](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/wayne-pate-plates-1-733x733.jpg)
Pate formerly focused on creating silkscreened prints, but now makes one-of-a-kind pieces.
![the latest offering: a limited edition line of urns that pate created in collab 25](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/show-ensemble-wayne-pate-and-stephen-antonson-urn-series-1-733x977.jpg)
Lampshades
![wayne pate lampshade](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/wayne-pate-lampshade-733x489.jpg)
Here are three more collections of wallpaper that we love:
- Markings and Line Work: Hand-Drawn Wallpaper from a New England Studio
- Atmospheres: New Wallpaper from Ilse Crawford for Engblad & Co.
- The Instant Backsplash: Waterproof Wallpaper from the Netherlands
Also take a look at DIY Walls: Tiles for Commitment Phobes.
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