Artists
&
designers.
Their design, our craft. We work with artists and designers across all three techniques, bringing their work to the press, the block, and the paper. Named editions, made by hand, with both names on every roll.
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Techniques
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Open to proposals
The idea
Their vision.
Our press.
Something
neither could
make alone.
The collaboration line begins with a simple premise: what happens when an artist or designer whose work we admire brings their vision to our techniques?
The answer is not a reproduction of their work on wallpaper. It is a genuine collaboration, where the design is made with the technique in mind, where the materials are chosen together, and where the result belongs to both parties. Each collaboration is a named edition, printed to order. The artist's name and ours appear on the roll together.
We work across all three techniques, blockprint, linocut, and dominoté, and we are always open to the right proposal from the right person.
Wallpaper collaborations
01
Linocut · Cranfield inks · Arches & Kraft
Isabelle
Dubois
Printmaker & illustrator · Belgium
Isabelle Dubois is a Belgian printmaker and illustrator whose work moves between the botanical, the narrative, and the quietly wild. Her linocut practice brings to the wallpaper a depth of line and observation that only a printmaker's hand produces. The birds, plants, and landscapes in her designs are not decoration, they are drawings. Each pattern begins as original artwork before it ever touches the press.
The linocut technique is by nature a collaboration, Isabelle brings the design, we bring the press, the Cranfield artist inks, and the choice of cotton rag Arches or raw kraft paper. Custom patterns available on commission.
02
Blockprint · Distemper · Pearwood blocks
Veroniek
De Leenheer
Designer & pattern maker · Belgium
Veroniek De Leenheer's practice is built around pattern, drawings in pencil that find their way into textiles and interiors. Wallpaper is already her territory. What she brought to Atelier V.V. was a story in damsk form designed specifically for blockprint: dense with incident, beautifully composed for repeat, and printed in distemper in the colour of her choice.
The result is a collaboration between two studios that both work with pattern, both care about the handmade, and both operate in the same corner of Belgium. Available to order now, in any colour from our palette. Custom patterns available on commission.
03
Blockprint · In production
Tinus
Vermeersch
Artist · Kortrijk · b. 1976
Tinus Vermeersch works in drawing, painting, and sculpture. His practice moves between the gestural and the precise, surfaces that carry the mark of process, that hold time in the way a blockprinted wall holds the impression of the wood. There is a natural conversation between his way of working and ours.
The block is being carved now. The pattern will be announced when the first print is pulled. If you want to be among the first to know, get in touch.
Projects & installations
Brick Wall Post
Piet Bodyn & Matthieu Lauwers × Atelier V.V. · Dominoté & Wallpaper
The theme was ground. We wanted to work with local ground — literally.
We sourced bricks from Van De Moortel, a Flemish brickmaker with deep roots in this region, and ground them ourselves into pigment — smashed, ground, washed. Making our own pigment is part of how we understand the materials we work with, taken as far as it will go. The paint for the wallpaper was made from the same clay that built the wall it was hung on.
A wallpaper made from bricks, in the colour of bricks, printed in the pattern of bricks, hung on a wall of bricks made from the same clay — becomes something strange. Wallpaper is supposed to perform a fiction: this wall is something other than it is. Here the wallpaper refuses that fiction. The decoration becomes transparent. The surface reveals itself.
Piet Bodyn and Matthieu Lauwers answered this transparency with their dominoté sheets, not decoration but commentary. The poster format that usually shouts becomes quiet pattern. The pattern that usually stays silent becomes the thing that speaks.
The piece was made for a specific place, with material from that place, for an audience from that community and beyond. Kunst & Zwalm brought several thousand visitors to the Zwalm valley in 2025. We could remake it — the pigment, the blocks, the process all exist. But it was made as a moment of play, of experiment, and as a way of giving something back to the place we work in
https://www.instagram.com/mathieulauwers/
Photographs © Leontien Allemeersch & Dhiaa Biya
How a collaboration
comes to life.
A collaboration with Atelier V.V. is not a print-on-demand service like with a digital service company. It is a process of making something together, where the design, the material, and the technique inform each other from the start.
01
Conversation
We meet, in the workshop or in your studio. We look at your work and talk about what a handprinted wallpaper could mean within it. No brief, no deadline yet.
02
Design
You develop a pattern with the technique in mind. We advise on scale, repeat, and the logic of the process. The design belongs to you.
03
Make & proof
We prepare the block or the lino and pull the first proofs together. Colour, paper, and pressure are all adjusted until the result is right for both of us.
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Edition & launch
The pattern is printed as a named edition, your name on the roll, our technique behind it. We announce it together and sell it from the atelier.
Are you an artist
or designer?
Let's talk.
We are actively looking for the next collaboration, across all three techniques. We're interested in artists and designers whose work has a natural conversation with blockprint, linocut, or dominoté. Pattern, drawing, surface, mark-making.
We don't have a formal open call. We prefer a conversation. Send us a link to your work and we'll respond honestly about whether we think there's something worth exploring together.
What we bring
Three techniques, three presses, the blocks, the distemper, the inks, the papers — and the craft to make it properly
What we look for
A strong visual practice with an affinity for surface, pattern, and the handmade — and a willingness to work with the constraints of the technique
The result
A named limited edition, printed to order, sold from both studios — with both names on the roll or the sheet
Dimitri also works as a letterpress printer, a practice that predates Atelier V.V. and sits outside it. It began as a volunteer at the Industriemuseum Ghent and has led to collaborations with poets, visual artists, and graphic designers. That work lives separately from the wallpaper atelier.