The designer Johnson Hartig is nothing short of a maestro. For more than two decades, he has delighted the tastemaker cognoscenti with his fashion label, Libertine, turning out knockout collections marked by his signature wit, no-holds-barred panache, and unwavering sense of style. (Beyoncé, Anna Wintour, and Martha Stewart are just a few of his discerning fans.) Hartig has a well-earned reputation for being a rule-breaker whose exquisite, high-wire mash-ups (think luxe cashmere sweaters hand-embellished with crystal-bead skulls) belie his deep knowledge about the history of design. His ravenous curiosity makes him the best kind of magpie: He is a tireless weaver of kaleidoscopic references to ravishing, joyous effect.
Since 2019, he has also been working his singular magic with Schumacher, dreaming up fabrics, wallpapers, and trims that are at once enchanting and unabashedly original. These have developed an avid fanbase of their own, and now Hartig is at it again: His latest Schumacher capsule collection of wallpaper patterns is every bit as dazzling—and will lend an instant sense of history to virtually any interior.
In the dining room of Johnson Hartig’s Los Angeles home, the sprawling Mr. Darcy wallpaper panel set makes a fabulous backdrop for stylish entertaining. A close look reveals an abundance of captivating details, from quaint cottages to grand formal gardens.
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The scenic bird’s-eye-view mural Mr. Darcy channels Jane Austen mania (2025 is the 250th anniversary of the writer’s birth) in an utterly charming three-panel design. The landscape of manor house, gardens, churchyard, and hamlet so conjures 18th-century engravings of the idyllic English countryside that it’s almost possible to glimpse Darcy and Elizabeth rushing toward each other through the orchards. The meticulously detailed pattern took Schumacher’s studio more than 800 hours to get just right, and the abundance of greens “makes it so inviting and peaceful,” Hartig says.
Mr. Darcy’s Clouds transforms the gestural puffs scudding across the scenic mural’s sky into a stand-alone repeating wallpaper pattern. It has an ethereal quality that can support other patterns in a room or make its own distinctive statement.
La Forêt wallpaper wraps Hartig’s Los Angeles living room in verdant foliage. Romantic details—a violin, an urn, an open music book—give the tranquil scene a playful spirit.
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Soft and ethereal, the Oyster Forest colorway of La Forêt gives the panel set an entirely unique character. Used in a bathroom of Hartig’s L.A. home, the dreamy landscape feels utterly transporting.
LAURA RESENThe tour-de-force three-panel La Forêt took more than two-and-a-half years to create. “My goal was to design the most authentic-looking verdure tapestry set,” Hartig says. Each “stitch” in the lush, monumental pattern was hand-painted, with intentional imperfections included, to reimagine the scale and romance of a 17th-century Flemish piece. Hartig used the all-encompassing pattern in his own Hancock Park, Los Angeles, home, pairing three of the four colorways with bold floral prints and collected art and accents. “Layers, layers, layers!” says the unrepentant maximalist.
Mixing a modern metal canopy bed with classic English florals, a suzani quilt, and his own La Forêt tapestry wallpaper, Hartig’s bedroom reflects the designer’s intuitive approach to decorating. “I buy what I love—unsure of how it will be used or where it will go, but confident it will work,” Hartig says.
LAURA RESENHartig envisions these wallpaper designs as “elegant bases to build beautiful rooms around,” he says. “That is the real joy—seeing people live with the designs, and knowing that the many hours of love, thought, and work that went into them has been more than worth it.”
