ROBERT MALMBERG EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AND INTERIOR DESIGN by Dakota Parks
OBERT MALMBERG has spent the bulk of his life with his eyes behind a camera, capturing the world around him and establishing himself as an award-winning portraiture, still life and landscape photographer. At the young age of 18, he discovered his passion for photography when he bought a 35-millimeter camera to take on a sixmonth trip to New Zealand to document his travels. When he came back from that trip, Malmberg enrolled in Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara to study commercial photography before starting his career in New York. In 2008, he opened Malmberg Studio in the bustling warehouse district along East River in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where he worked as a commercial photographer, taught himself the 1850s-era wet-plate collodion process and began selling limitededition prints to interior designers. Faced with closing his studio for six months during the onset of the pandemic, Malmberg and his wife made the decision to relocate to his birthplace in Pensacola, where he reopened his studio and launched his luxury and boutique wallpaper line.
photo by Guy Stevens
The Malmberg Wallpaper in Spring 2021 collection is an 11-piece collection that combines professional fine art photography with mixed media techniques to create evocative and maximalist patterns that transform traditionally curated walls into life-size works of art. The series features photographs stretching across Malmberg’s career from his personal archive of travel photos, insects, flowers and landscapes to new stilllife photos taken in studio. Malmberg first had the idea to launch a wallpaper line several years ago when he began to focus on selling limited-edition prints to interior designers, as the luxury wallpaper would further complement this shift in career focus. He spearheaded the project during the pandemic and spent much of 2020 in the research and development stage. The wallpaper is sold by the yard, available in a variety JUNE '21
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