The normal illustration of hashish tradition in dwelling decor is a timeless staple, together with every little thing from mind-bending psychedelic artwork to Rastafari-inspired colours schemes and distinctive signage with phrases like “It’s 4:20 someplace.” Whereas these designs will at all times be a basic a part of hashish tradition, some manufacturers wish to give hashish decorations a renovation. With this in thoughts, artist and inside designer Sarah Rodebaugh created her model, Chronic Biophiliac, to supply decor options impressed by biophilic inside design, or design centered round our innate have to be near nature. Rodebaugh has created quite a lot of refined designs that combine hashish leaves and flowers into wallpapers, pillows, and different objects, all of that are made with eco-friendly supplies.
Rodebaugh initially pursued her ardour for inside design following her service within the U.S. Marines within the 2000s. She attended San Francisco State College and obtained a level in inside design, all whereas being pregnant. She gave start to her son throughout her final semester and proper out of school, labored as a business kitchen designer in Santa Rosa, California. In 2014, she used her expertise and information of authorized necessities for business kitchens (equivalent to constructing codes, hearth code laws, hazardous supplies codes) and expanded into hashish manufacturing facility designs, equivalent to ethanol extraction labs, and ultimately kitchen design for edibles manufacturing.
Rodebaugh’s work traveled full circle again to residential inside design profession when her purchasers, the founders of hashish edibles firm KIVA, Scott and Kristi Palmer, requested if she would design their dwelling. She looked for wallpaper designs that may mirror the Palmers’ way of life and work with the hashish plant.
“We couldn’t discover something that was simply stunning regarding the hashish wallpaper or patterns or something,” Rodebaugh says. “There’s loads of psychedelic and there’s loads of like Rastafarian and loads of clip artwork and issues like that, which all have their very own advantage, in fact, however there wasn’t something that [said], ‘Oh, that is only a actually stunning wallpaper for our residential lounge form of space.’”
In 2020, Rodebaugh started to create her personal hashish wallpaper designs impressed by biophilic inside design.
“Our psychological and bodily well-being is tied into our necessity to be close to nature in no matter means that happens, whether or not that’s really outdoor, or what they do in biophilic inside design or biophilic artwork,” Rodebaugh explains. “They really carry the outside in with stay vegetation or that form of factor, however [studies] have discovered that it’s additionally helpful to your psychological state, to even have the imagery of these pure components inside.”
Rodebaugh’s first wallpaper included a geometrical design referred to as “Stability Beam,” which encompasses a easy triangular sample with hashish leaves intersecting at each nook.
“That exact sample goes effectively in virtually any setting,” she says. “I imply, I like imagining it in like a complicated library setting and the darker tones, however you could possibly put it in a midcentury, you understand, mid-modern setting, and it goes rather well.”
Rodebaugh hand attracts or paints all of the designs for her model, after which works with an illustrator to assist increase upon the unique designs with alternate shade schemes. “California Vice,” one in every of her bestselling designs, is impressed by William Morris’s artwork nouveau design “Strawberry Thief” (1883). Her model options an intricate sample of California-inspired components, equivalent to grizzly bears, California poppies, mushrooms, grapes, and hashish leaves to tie all of it collectively.
One other design, entitled “Cannouveau,” is a glamorous Nineteen Fifties-inspired artwork deco and artwork nouveau sample with chinoiserie, the evocation of Chinese language motifs and strategies in Western artwork, mixed with hashish leaves, poppy flowers, and ginkgo leaves. All of her designs can be found as wallpaper, however some have additionally been tailored to adorn pillows, canvas totes, bamboo trays, and present wrap.
Along with producing refined designs for hashish shoppers to take pleasure in, she additionally ensures that each one of her merchandise are made with top quality supplies and are available from reliable firms each time potential.
“I believe my [product] strains keep small as a result of I’ve received actually very excessive expectations on ensuring that I’m utilizing eco-friendly and sustainable and justice-oriented labor and that sort of factor,” Rodebaugh says.
Her wallpaper is sourced from an organization referred to as Astek, based mostly in Los Angeles, which produces wallpaper created from 100% Bristol paper and incorporates no plastic components, making it compostable and protected to throw away as soon as eliminated.
Her pillowcases are created from 100% hemp linen, and the inside casing and filling comes from the Colorado-based American Down & Feather, which makes use of ethically harvested duck down and feathers. After the feather supplies are triple washed and sanitized, they’re tumbled for hours to make sure they’re correctly blended, after which packed right into a 100% natural cotton casing.
“It’s actually pretty to have been capable of finding that and that simply feels good sending that out into the world, and it’s all actually stunning high quality as effectively,” Rodebaugh says.
This text was initially Up to date within the November 2023 situation of Excessive Instances Journal.