Wook Kim

This Brooklyn-based textile artist plays with traditional ideas of wallpaper by inserting oddly placed animals within traditional patterns and motifs.

The animals appear only occasionally in the overall pattern.

The wallpaper is printed on 26-inch vinyl strips and comes with adhesive backing.

So you won't need the proverbial one-armed paperhanger, who's always busy anyhow.

Unless you really want him or her: there's also a traditional, non-adhesive version.

Designs with custom elements are $24/square foot; off-the-shelf styles run $20/square foot.

There's only one actual, physical place in the solar system you can buy the stuff: Matter, at 227 5th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn; 718-230-1150.

It's also available online via the designer's website.

[via Katherine E. Nelson and the New York Times]