The Source · Behind the Collection
Curious Eve, from sketch to strike-off
Eve Ashcraft and Aux Abris, from one phone call to a finished collection.
By Anderson Somerselle · Oct 2026 · 5 min read
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Curious Eve began the way the good ones usually do: with a phone call that went better than anyone planned. Karen Robert, who founded Aux Abris, called the color consultant Eve Ashcraft and said she wanted to do a wallpaper collection together. Three days later they were at lunch. A few minutes into it, they both knew.
What they found over lunch was a shared obsession with decorative history. Art Nouveau, Art Deco, the Vienna Secession, Japanese landscape painting, Klimt, shagreen, old gilded book covers. Two people who'd been collecting the same references for years without ever comparing notes.
It is layered. It is ornamental. It is rooted in history, but not nostalgic. And yes, there are monkeys.
The patterns
Three of the patterns have had their own films so far: Luminous Lilies, Aqua Terra and Serpentine Rose. Each one pulls from that shared shelf of references, and each one is the kind of thing you notice from across a room and then again up close.
How it came to life
The collection was previewed at Paris Design Week in January 2026. We filmed Karen and Eve in the Aux Abris studio in Yonkers for Behind the Collection, and gave the patterns their own short films in Behind the Print. Between the two series, the films have been watched more than 20,000 times.
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