wallpaper DNA

Hang one of 18 famous paintings from the Rijksmuseum on your wall with Colour DNA wallpaper. Renowned graphic designer Irma Boom spent ten years deconstructing the museum’s paintings to distill their colour DNA – the six colours that make up the painting. These DNA swatches of an individual painting, like Vermeer’s The Milkmaid, are available as wallpaper in narrow or broad striping. Just choose and /or combine your favorite classic for your wall.

Product code: 307 19/20 Designer: Irma Boom Material: printed fleece-paper Size: 48,7 x 900 cm / 19,2” x 354,3”

Biography: Irma Boom (1960) is an -based graphic designer specialised in making books. Boom studied graphic design at the AKI Art Academy in Enschede. After graduation she worked at the Dutch Government Publishing and Printing Office in . In 1991 she founded Irma Boom Office in Amsterdam.

Boom sees her books as containers of thoughts, that communicate ideas and stories. She rose to fame with the SHV Thinkbook (1996), a 2136-page book on which she worked for five years. From over 300 books, 70 are in the permanent collection of the MoMA in New York. She received many awards for her book designs and was the youngest ever laureate to receive the prestigious Gutenberg prize for her complete oeuvre. Her work is commissioned and collected by institutions such as the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou in , , , OMA/ and Chanel. www.irmaboom.nl

Colours based on The Milkmaid, c. 1658–60 Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675)

Product code: 307 19

Product code: 307 20

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