Field Trip Friday: Flavor Paper

What did we do before Twitter? It's the reason so many of you know about us and how we know about Flavor Paper. When designer Kim Myles tweeted about the amazing designs they were producing right under our noses in Brooklyn, New York, we knew we had to pay the wallpaper and fabric company a visit.

Owner, Jon Sherman, welcomed us into the "Flavor Lair" for a tour of the company's amazing studio/office/production facility and a peek at the new digital collection they debuted last month at the ICFF in New York.

It was an hour of design drooling (over both the collection and the space). Take a look...

Photo: Boone Speed

The Flavor facade is anything but unassuming, even though it's nestled between residential buildings on a small block in Cobble Hill. A large floor-to-ceiling window at the entrance gives you a front-row view of the space where Flavor paper is printed for clients as big as Lenny Kravitz and the W Hotels.

Photo: Boone Speed

Up close you can see dark rooms where the printing magic happens, large drying racks, in the center, where the paper is rolled out and squeegeed, and silk screens hung off to the right.

A full spectrum of paints sit, waiting to be mixed, along the back wall of Flavor's production facility. All of their papers can be customized to your heart's content (meaning any color combo you can think of), at no extra charge.

The concentric circles of this Cycloid pattern, left, are the basis of Flavor's office layout. Their entry into the world of digital printing includes this shot of a village in Caracas, Venezuela, printed on a textured paper that shimmers under light.

Lest they forget the fifth wall, Flavor put this Power Plant design to work on the ceiling of their office space.

Flavor's elevator is aglow with this black-light sensitive version of their Feroz paper. In the bathroom, Iris becomes three dimensional with the help of a mirror and curved wall.

Photo: Boone Speed

Up on the roof, the Flavor crew can look out onto what feels like all of Brooklyn, crank up the grill, or spy on the neighbors entering the building downstairs (the neon floral design at the exit is actually a life-size periscope.)

First came wallpaper, then fabric. Flavor's next venture? iPad skins.