"And in Manhattan, Charlap Hyman and Herrero used a trompe l’oeil marble motif (derived from Gio Ponti’s rubber floors in the Milan Pirelli Tower) on carpet, walls, and curtains in the new Soho flagship of bag brand MZ Wallace. “Some people think it becomes chaotic, but I find it soothing,” says firm cofounder Adam Charlap Hyman, “like a mask over everything that blurs the edges of objects in the room itself.” It’s a technique daring design folks have tried out for decades. There’s Lee Radziwell’s famous London drawing room, devised by Renzo Mongiardino, covered top to bottom in Indian printed cottons. There’s Diana Vreeland's Billy Baldwin–designed “garden in hell” apartment, as she dubbed it, and Gloria Vanderbuilt’s quilt-covered New York bedroom. Charlap Hyman offers up his favorite case study too: the Zodiac Suite by Piero Fornasetti and Gio Ponti in which whimsical astrology-themed illustrations dance across bedspreads, walls, curtains, and furniture."