From Texture to Art: Casamonte’s Visionary Designer Wallcoverings

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For this issue, Miami Living takes a closer look at Casamonte’s special collaboration with world-class designers in the creation of custom-made, world-class wallcovering. The Fort Lauderdale–based studio has built its reputation on crafting walls that function as works of art—surfaces that move, flow, and transform space.

To explore Casamonte’s latest collection, Miami Living spoke with Christian Claramonte, Casamonte’s VP of Creative Operations, about the vision, process, and material storytelling behind these collaborations.

Miami Living: Casamonte collaborated with four designers from distinct design disciplines for these collections. What vision guided your decision to bring these particular designers together under one cohesive narrative?

Christian Claramonte: The vision was never about assembling names; it was about curating perspectives—each with a story to tell.

We intentionally brought together these designers from distinct design disciplines because each approaches surface, space, and narrative from a fundamentally different point of view. Every designer arrives with a unique creative language, shaped by their own process, references, and way of seeing the world.

The guiding framework was rooted in contrast and convergence: how diverse disciplines can respond to the same medium and elevate it in entirely different ways. Individually, each collection tells its own story; together, they form a larger, cohesive dialogue about how texture operates as both structure and emotion.

At Casamonte, we see walls as more than surfaces—they are canvases. These collaborations allowed us to explore that belief at its fullest scale, giving each designer the space to express their narrative while contributing to a unified architectural vision.

Miami Living: What was the creative process like working with the designers on these collections—Yodezeen, Jack Lonetto, Marc-Michaels, and Audrey Lane?

Christian Claramonte: The creative process was deeply collaborative and never constrained by a single approach.

With YODEZEEN, the dialogue began at an architectural scale. Their work is rooted in atmosphere, material tension, and spatial drama, so the process focused on translating those monumental, tactile environments into surfaces that still carried weight and presence. It was about distilling architecture into texture—bold, grounded, and immersive.

Jack Lonetto approached the collection through a graphic, rhythm-based framework informed by the discipline of Japanese ink brushwork. The collaboration unfolded as an iterative exploration of balance, repetition, and contrast, where measured structure meets the fluidity of gesture. Through continuous refinement, the patterns achieved clarity and intent, allowing the logic of the design to remain precise while the expression stays organic and alive.

With Marc-Michaels Interior Design, the process was guided by refinement and mastery of detail. Their understanding of luxury interiors brought a nuanced perspective on proportion, layering, and elegance. Every decision was deliberate, ensuring the designs would feel timeless yet expressive within sophisticated spaces.

Audrey Lane brought an instinctive, artistic sensitivity to the process. Working with them was about intuition—embracing organic movement, softness, and emotion. The collaboration allowed patterns to emerge naturally, resulting in designs that feel expressive, fluid, and tactile.

Across all four collaborations, our role at Casamonte was to act as both translator and curator—honoring each designer’s creative language while guiding the collections. The result is a body of work that feels diverse yet cohesive, where every design stands on its own but together tells a broader story about texture as an art form.

Miami Living: Some of your designer collaborations, like Jack Lonetto, are rooted in distinct textures that bring their designs to life. How does Casamonte select the proper textures to bring the designers’ visions into wallcoverings?

Christian Claramonte: At Casamonte, texture is never an afterthought—it’s the primary language through which a designer’s vision is translated into a living surface. When we collaborate with designers like Jack Lonetto, we begin by deeply understanding how they think about space, scale, and touch. Texture selection starts at that conceptual level, not with a catalog of finishes.

From there, our design and technical teams work in parallel. We study how a pattern wants to behave architecturally—whether it needs quiet dimensionality, graphic tension, or a more expressive relief—and then test textures that amplify those qualities without overpowering the design itself. Every emboss, grain, and texture is evaluated for how it interacts with light, shadow, and movement across a wall, ensuring the texture enhances the composition rather than competing with it.

Equally important is performance. Once a texture feels right artistically, it must also live confidently in the real world—meeting durability, installation, and environmental standards while preserving the integrity of the design. The result is a wallcovering where texture feels intentional, precise, and inseparable from the designer’s original vision—bringing their work fully to life through depth, tactility, and architectural presence.

Miami Living: The Earthskin collection is inspired by raw, natural elements. How do you envision these surfaces shaping atmosphere and sensory experience differently in residential versus hospitality interiors?

Christian Claramonte: Earthskin was conceived as an emotional material system—not just a visual one—so its impact shifts depending on the context it inhabits.

In residential interiors, these surfaces operate at a more intimate scale. The raw references—stone, plaster, earth, mineral textures—create a sense of grounding and calm. They invite touch, moderate the rhythm of a room, and shape a composed interior environment. In a home, Earthskin becomes atmospheric rather than declarative; it supports daily rituals, softens light, and creates a quiet dialogue between the occupant and the space. The experience is personal, tactile, and deeply sensory.

In hospitality environments, the same surfaces take on a more immersive and architectural role. Here, Earthskin is about presence and memory. The textures amplify scale, anchor large volumes, and establish an immediate emotional response when someone enters a space. Rather than receding, the material asserts itself—shaping mood, defining identity, and creating environments that feel intentional and experiential. In hospitality, Earthskin doesn’t just support the architecture; it is part of the storytelling.

What makes the collection powerful is that it adapts without losing integrity. Whether creating intimacy in a private residence or drama and atmosphere in a hotel or restaurant, Earthskin connects people to something elemental and timeless—proving that material honesty resonates across scales and settings.