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1. A LEVENBETTS
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SECTIONAL, GEORGE
NAKASHIMA STOOL, AND
SUPERFLOWER’S PEONY
LARGE WALLPAPER IN THE
S Andrew Zuckerman’s Manhattan apartment, DAUGHTER MAYA LOUNGE
DEN. 2. BERGEN AND
tep off the elevator into Niki Bergen and
IN MAYA’S BEDROOM, WHICH
and you’re instantly blitzed with images from
IS CLAD IN SUPERFLOWER’S
MAPLE PATTERN. 3. ROSE.
nature—nature like you’ve never seen it before.
4. CLOWESIA. 5. INDICA.
At the far end of the hall, a nine-foot-tall grizzly
bear rises up on its hind legs, locking eyes with
you. Nearby, a ghostly snowy owl spreads its wings, frozen in
mid-flight. Then there’s the expanse of floral wallpaper, arrayed
with fanciful cannonball and Pride of Burma blooms.
This wild kingdom makes quite a first impression, and it
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continues throughout the 3,300-square-foot loft that the
couple share with their three children in Chelsea. Everything
is a thoughtful expression of personal and professional
passions, explains Zuckerman, a photographer and filmmaker
whose work explores the intersections of nature, culture, and
technology. Captured in ultra–high resolution, against stark
white backdrops, his celebrated images of flora and fauna have
a hyperreal quality that’s “not quite pure, not quite manufac-
tured,” as he puts it. “There is a kind of in-betweenness about
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them that I find interesting.”
It’s that quality, in part, that inspired the couple to launch
Superflower, a new business creating digitally printed botani-
cal wallpapers from Zuckerman’s photographs. The initial WALLPAPER: COURTESY OF THE COMPANY
collection features nine patterns, each incorporating as many
as 10 different images—peonies, birds-of-paradise, cannabis
flowers, to name a few—shot at locations such as the New York
Botanical Garden and the Smithsonian. Nine standard color-
ways (custom hues can be created) draw on antique delftware

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