At Assemblage's rural Arkansas studio, which is housed in an old seed mill, artisans trowel marble plaster on to a woven glass textile and hand-apply metal leaf for a textual triumph.

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When Holly Hunt set out to create its first wallpaper collection, it decided to call in the experts, partnering with Assemblage, a studio revered for its exquisite wallcoverings, as one of the three lines. Assemblage’s 29 designs speak both to its skilled craftsmanship and Holly Hunt’s grand ambition.

All of the wallpapers are made by hand—there’s not a single piece of heavy machinery in the repurposed Arkansas seed mill that Assemblage calls home. Instead, artisans use a secret trowel-and-blade technique to shape plaster on the papers. It’s a time-consuming process, one that takes years to master. Naturally, then, the final wallpapers are in a league of their own. Chevron Leaf, for instance, is a sculpted, geometric paper with a stripe of 22-karat gold leaf; Oya appears weathered by the sands of time, flash-gilded with mica powder so that it shimmers like a fresh pearl. We’d expect nothing less from a studio that counts Tiffany & Co., Chanel and Louis Vuitton among its many A-list clients.

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“You can’t be in more than one place at a time,” says master craftsman Christian Batteau, cofounder of the bespoke wallpaper studio Assemblage. Christian—who once worked in the studio of art-world superstar Jeff Koons—got his start studying decorative painting and plastering at the Kansas City Art Institute, but as demand grew, he was looking for new ways to provide the artistry of wall installations while expanding to introduce creative materials, like resins and jewel lines, that had to be manipulated on a flat surface. “I wanted to offer this sort of bang and artistry that you would get from people working in your living room for three weeks, and it can go up in a day.”

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Creating wallcoverings that stand as art, a bespoke studio in Arkansas is decidedly on a roll.

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