Social commentary being plastered on expensive wallpaper

KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
Traditional French toile prints have had another fashion run in both sportswear and home furnishings in recent seasons.
Capris were embellished with scenes of 18th-century ruins or frivolous ladies dressed in their finest.
But here now is a modern, more creative twist. The New York Times says a Philadelphia textile artist has modernized the form by embellishing wallpaper with "lighthearted social commentary."
Instead of pastoral countrysides, Jessica Smith mined the American suburbs to draw "Trash Day," depicting, of course, the day when home dwellers drag everything into the street for collection. "Cars Go Beep" involves finely drawn Hummers on a New Jersey Turnpike, the Times reports.
The designs, which range from $120 to $150 a roll, are available from Studio Printworks in Hoboken, N.J., at (212) 633-6727.