Luminous is a new wallpaper collection designed by Suchi Reddy in collaboration with Calico Wallpaper.

Grounded in Reddy’s research in neuroaesthetics, the collection explores light and color as active emotional forces rather than passive surface treatments. It marks the first time Reddy has applied her guiding philosophy, “form follows feeling,” to wallpaper.

The collection emerged from a dialogue between Reddy and Calico Wallpaper founders Nick and Rachel Cope, who share her conviction that interiors can convey movement, presence, and psychological resonance. Rachel Cope, a painter, developed a series of painting tests that she and Reddy refined through an iterative exchange, moving between intuitive visual exploration and analytical conversation about how the eye and brain interpret gradients, contrast, and spatial depth.

Through layered gradients and atmospheric transitions, each design captures light in motion, diffusing and shifting across space. Colors appear as immersive fields rather than static surfaces, creating a sense of depth and fluidity that mirrors how we process the world around us.

The collection features six colorways: Awaken, Beam, Brilliant, Emanate, Flash, and Lucent, each offering its own emotional register, from soft rising luminosity to bold, saturated expanses of color.

Luminous debuted during NYCxDESIGN at the Calico Wallpaper showroom at 57 Lispenard Street in an installation pairing the wallpapers with an atmospheric program of music and projection. The collection is available through Calico Wallpaper.