Los Angeles Design Studio
manufacturer of wallpaper, fabric, home décor & publisher of patterns
Pearl & Maude is a home décor design studio creating distinctive textiles and wallpaper in Los Angeles, informed by architectural history, cultural layering, and West Coast eccentricity.
Our Design Philosophy
Pearl & Maude creates wallpaper and textiles with soul, history, edge, and originality.
The work lives between classic and unconventional. Rooted in architectural tradition through a contemporary lens, each design balances familiarity with surprise. Patterns feel timeless yet slightly rebellious, refined but with a pulse.
Here, fabric and wallpaper are more than decoration. They are a form of expression. A way to give walls presence, character, and emotional depth. The studio exists to create work that feels intentional, personal, and unlike anything else on the market.
Pearl & Maude is a member of Women in Luxury Design, Golden Hour Society, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.
Textiles and Wallpaper Inspired by Southern California
Pearl & Maude is rooted in Los Angeles. Not as a theme, but as a way of seeing. The city’s layered architectural history, from early Californian and Spanish Revival buildings to Art Deco, Neo Classical, Mid-Century, and Modernist structures, informs how we think about scale, rhythm, and ornament. Los Angeles is a place where architectural languages overlap rather than resolve, and that tension shapes our work.
Pearl & Maude designs wallpaper in Los Angeles as a response to the city’s layered architectural heritage rather than its trends. Pearl & Maude fabric and wallpaper patterns draw from architectural detail, proportion, and pattern. Motifs begin as hand-painted studies of historic elements and are translated into abstract wallcoverings that feel soulful, traditional and edgy.
Our work is designed to live comfortably in both historic and contemporary interiors, offering depth and character without relying on nostalgia, trend or specific imagery.
From Painting to Pattern
Every Pearl & Maude design starts as a painting.
Teale Hatheway studies architectural details, streetlights, ornament, and fragments of historic Los Angeles buildings by hand, using paint as a way to observe, remember, and interpret. She does not create these works with pattern in mind. Wallpaper comes later, through a deliberate act of translation.
The studio distills painted elements into rhythm, repeat, and proportion. Instead of smoothing away irregularities, our process preserves them, allowing the finished pattern to retain the presence of a human hand. This is why the work feels expressive rather than ornamental. Patterns maintain the emotional intelligence of the original paintings while adapting to live on walls and within real spaces.
Pearl & Maude does not imitate history or replicate existing styles. The studio interprets architectural memory through painting, then transforms it into pattern. That translation gives the work its layered quality, its familiarity, and its unmistakable point of view.
The Studio
Pearl & Maude is a boutique wallpaper and textile design studio based in Los Angeles. All wallpapers are printed to order in-house, allowing the studio to maintain close oversight of quality, color, and production from start to finish.
Designs are produced in the USA using a made-to-order model that minimizes waste and supports a more thoughtful approach to manufacturing. This structure allows the studio to remain nimble, responsive, and deeply involved in every project.
While Pearl & Maude publishes a curated collection of original patterns, the studio also welcomes customization inquiries for both residential and commercial interiors. Designers and clients seeking custom color, scale, or project-specific adaptations can learn more through our custom wallpaper services.
If you would like to experience our wallpaper in Los Angeles, in person, we encourage you to contact us to make an appointment.
We also invite you to visit our sister wallpaper collection at Striped Wallpaper – For Rebels with a Ruler.
Meet Our Founder, Designer and Creative Director
As a 5th generation Angeleno, and an artist focused on Los Angele’s heritage architecture, there’s no one more suited to claim she understands true California Design, than Teale. The truth is though, there’s no understanding California Design. It’s something that transmits into your soul through the sand between your toes; by inhaling the soft air or the pine trees, and letting the golden light twinkle in your eyes. California design is an amalgamation of everyone who has thrown their fears to the wind and gone WEST!
Over the generations, we have all brought with us the most inspiring parts of our cultures and shared them with each other in this remote cow-town-turned-surging-metropolis. Inspired by Southern California heritage and architecture, Teale reinterprets her paintings into Pearl & Maude’s bold and unique designs that reflect the variety of influences that have graced contemporary West Coast culture.
When I see your work, its uniqueness… my imagination wants to walk into your atmosphere. It’s a mirror into the California lifestyle but grounded by a history no one knows. ~ G.V.
About Teale – a painter obsessed with the art of memory
I am a painter and installation artist transfixed by ideas of memory, experience and the soulful residue left behind as people inhabit, use and pass-through physical spaces. Known for my paintings and installations of architecture, street lights and ornamental details, my work contemplates the theory that we remember environments as compilations of elements with which we develop emotional or intellectual connections.
I believe in the power of decoration as a tool for self-expression. So it was only a matter of time before I dove into the world of decorative design. I revel in creating lasting spaces of cultural integrity and an abundance of spirit. Thank you for exploring Pearl & Maude. I hope you enjoy this body of work as much as I do!
Teale’s paintings are available through Pearl & Maude. To see a more extensive portfolio of Teale’s work, visit her artist website.
So who, then, are Pearl & Maude? Named for two of Teale’s great grandmothers, Pearl (the businesswoman) and Maude (the artisan and couturier) became neighbors and best friends. Through thick and thin, they kept the family optimistic, inspired, stylish and in business.
And what exactly was going on in LA 5 generations ago? My great great grandfather, Jacob Miller arrived in Los Angeles and became the town’s first marble carver. His studio stood at the current location of Los Angeles City Hall. Looking to escape the hazards of marble dust, Jacob and his wife Dorothy, moved the family to the Hollywood Hills and settled Nichols Canyon as a ranch, importing and successfully growing Los Angeles’ first avocados, cherimoyas and persimmons.
Giving Back – preserving memories for future generations
Pearl and Maude’s mission to help you create memorable spaces wouldn’t mean much if we were not doing our part to preserve them too! We are passionate advocates of historic preservation efforts. By maintaining or transforming older buildings into places we recognize and love, not only do we help protect the environment, we also make meaningful connections between our pasts and our futures. As a society, we are richer, wiser and stronger when historic structures remain.
Pearl & Maude donates a portion of sales to organizations actively working to preserve historic architecture.
Our Ethical Responsibility – a look at our products
All Pearl and Maude products are made and/or printed in the USA using the highest quality materials and manufacturers committed to healthy work environments, low waste processes and living wages and above for employees.
Our wallpapers are digitally printed in our Los Angeles design studio, using GREENGUARD Gold certified inks, which ensures the most rigorous and comprehensive standards for low emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The ability to print on-demand also reduces excess inventory, contributing to a more sustainable business model. By embracing digital printing, Pearl & Maude prioritizes environmental responsibility without compromising on the quality and aesthetics of our wallpaper.
For clients seeking wallpaper in Los Angeles that is made locally, printed responsibly, and designed with intention, Pearl & Maude offers a distinctly authored alternative.
Collaborations
Collaborative projects open the imagination to compounded exploration. We love collaborating with artists and designers to conjure environments, products and concepts. Have a great idea? Reach out and let’s make things happen! We are very proud of our collaborations with artists, events, festivals, fashion boutiques, restorationists and interior designers.
