Free Potato Wallpaper, Bertjan Pot x apartamento

a corner of a modern domestic space is dominated by wallpaper made of freely copied raster dot enlarged images of potatoes on light grey paper. in front of the wall is a slim red table with a mac and a dutch design magazine and an extremely large rhododendron in a teal pot. to the right is a coatrack shaped like a pencil with some colorful cloth shopping bags hanging on it. a white mesh pendant light hangs over the table, the whole scene is designed by bertjan pot, of rotterdam, in 2009, for apartamento magazine, of barcelona
installation view of Free Potato Wallpaper, 2009, by Bertjan Pot for apartamento #4, via bertjanpot.nl

The issue of apartamento with Enzo Mari’s studio (#4, f/w 2009-10) also included a project by Rotterdam designer Bertjan Pot: Free Potato Wallpaper.

The little A5 magazine had four sheets of rasterized potato images, and instructions for scaling them up to A4 for pasting. With the print issue long unavailable, Pot has made an A4 PDF available on his studio website.

two greyscale, rasterized images of potatoes in opposite corners of an otherwise blank a4 sheet, one of four sheets of a wallpaper design by bertjan pot and his intern Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence for apartamento magazine in 2009
one of four sheets of Free Potato Wallpaper, an A4 pdf as a resized jpg, via bertjanpot.nl

Because the paper is printed basically as tiles instead of rolls, the trick to getting a more random potato effect is to turn some sheets upside down. Of course your desire for some respite from an uncertain world may also inspire you to paper your wall in elaborate potato patterns. Quick, while you still have the freedom to choose.