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Claire Iglesias: Where Color, Shape and Everyday Life Meet

French designer Claire Iglesias brings a playful yet thoughtful approach to pattern design. Working with cut paper, textures, and unexpected color combinations, she creates compositions that feel both bold and approachable. Inspired by everyday moments, simple objects, and the coastal atmosphere of Brittany, her designs carry a warm and familiar energy. The result is a collection of patterns that add personality to interiors — joyful without being overwhelming, graphic without losing softness.

Claire Iglesias

What inspires you?

I work with cut paper, textures, and unexpected color combinations and most of my ideas start with just playing around until something surprising shows up. Everyday life is a big source of inspiration for me: everyday moments, animals, simple objects. And living in Brittany definitely feeds that too. The light, the landscape, the slightly melancholic-but-cozy vibe of the sea side.

When people see your designs, what kind of vibe do you hope they feel?

Warm, a little playful, and somehow familiar. Like something they can't quite name but immediately like. I want my patterns to feel joyful without being loud, and graphic without being cold. The kind of design that makes a room feel personal, colorful, with a bit of personality.

What's one wallpaper design you'd love to create but haven't yet?

I'd love to design a large-scale abstract pattern inspired by the Brittany coastline. Bold organic shapes, a muted but rich color palette, somewhere between a landscape and pure abstraction. Something that feels grounded and dreamy at the same time.