Where You’ve Seen Astek Wallcoverings in Film and Television

Astek Wallcoverings Behind the Scenes

Astek wallcoverings in film and television have played a supporting role in some memorable productions, helping production designers turn scripts and storyboards into fully realized worlds. From meticulously recreated period interiors to rooms filled with bold color and personality, the right wallcovering can do more than fill a wall. It can establish an era, reveal a character, and set the mood for an entire scene.

We’re taking a look back at some of the film and television productions featuring our wallcoverings. Our sister company, On Air Design, has been creating wallpaper, murals, faux surfaces, and other custom finishes for the entertainment industry for decades. Working alongside production designers and set decorators, the On Air team brings highly specific visions to life, often using Astek patterns as a starting point.

From vintage designs pulled from our extensive pattern library to custom colors and digitally recreated historic wallpapers, these projects showcase just how transformative wallcovering can be on screen.

Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood brings 1969 Los Angeles to life through a world of carefully considered details. Production designer Barbara Ling and her team recreated the look and atmosphere of the era throughout the film, from its iconic locations to the interiors that help establish each character's world.

Astek vintage wallpaper patterns make several appearances throughout the film, including our Round-Up Rodeo pattern in the Spahn Ranch scenes. The Western-inspired design is right at home in the setting, adding another layer of period-specific detail to the ranch.

It's a perfect example of how wallpaper can help transport an audience to another time. A pattern doesn't need to dominate a scene to make it feel authentic. Sometimes, it's the details in the background that make a set believable.

Griselda

The world of Griselda is glamorous, dangerous, and unmistakably rooted in the 1970s. Starring Sofia Vergara as the infamous Griselda Blanco, the series follows the complex life of a single mother who builds a powerful drug empire in Miami.

Production designer Knut Loewe leaned into the era's distinctive visual language, creating interiors filled with rich colors, luxurious furnishings, and plenty of 1970s flair. Wallpaper was an important part of that equation.

For one of the sets, Loewe selected a custom gold version of Society of Wonderland's Uptown pattern. The metallic finish gives the design a glamorous quality while adding visual movement to the background.

Custom color is one of the ways wallcovering can become especially useful for production design. A pattern may already have the right character, but adjusting its color allows it to fit precisely within the palette and atmosphere of a particular set.

Being the Ricardos

Being the Ricardos takes audiences behind the scenes of the lives and careers of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, moving through the aesthetics of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

To create the period-appropriate interiors, production designer Jon Hutman worked with On Air Design to produce art prints and custom wallpapers. The resulting sets range from understated faux grasscloth to sweeping tropical murals, creating the layered interiors needed to bring Lucy's world to life.

Our Pond pattern appears in Lucy's laundry room, where its botanical character adds interest without overpowering the space. It's a subtle detail, but one that helps make the room feel connected to the period and to the character who occupies it.

Better Call Saul

Not every production calls for glamorous wallpaper. Sometimes, a darker or more atmospheric pattern is exactly what's needed.

Better Call Saul, the acclaimed prequel to Breaking Bad, follows Jimmy McGill's increasingly complicated journey toward becoming Saul Goodman. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series uses its environments to reflect the shifting worlds of its characters.

For a moody bar set, On Air Design provided Astek's Provence pattern. Inspired by Art Nouveau, the design brings an ornamental quality to the space while still fitting naturally into the series' distinctive visual atmosphere.

Here, the wallcovering isn't simply decorative. It helps establish the personality of the location, contributing to the feeling of a real bar with its own history and character.

Palm Royale

If there's one production that knows how to have fun with interiors, it's Palm Royale.

Set in 1969, the series follows Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons as she attempts to break into the exclusive world of Palm Beach high society and gain acceptance at the Palm Royale country club. The sets embrace the glamour and exuberance of the era, making pattern an essential part of the visual experience.

For the production, we printed vintage wallpapers from our extensive library of patterns, including custom-colored versions created to complement production designer Jon Carlos's vision.

Our Camber pattern appears in the salon set, where its mid-century character fits seamlessly into the colorful, sophisticated world of the series.

The project is a great illustration of the possibilities that come with working from an established pattern library. Historic-inspired designs can be reproduced and customized to meet the exact needs of a production, creating a finished result that feels both authentic and tailored.

Presumed Innocent

Based on Scott Turow's 1987 novel, Presumed Innocent brings a tense legal thriller to the screen, but the courtroom isn't the only environment doing storytelling work.

Production designer John Paino paid careful attention to the series' home interiors, using their design to create atmosphere beyond the central legal drama. In one bedroom, our Naupaka pattern introduces a darker take on tropical design.

The result is more subdued than the bright, breezy tropical interiors often associated with botanical wallpaper. Here, the pattern contributes to the room's somber mood while still providing the visual richness that makes a set feel lived in.

Euphoria

Few contemporary television shows have embraced interior design quite like Euphoria. The series is known for its distinctive visual style, and its sets are filled with details that help communicate the personalities and experiences of its characters.

For the first two seasons, production designers Kay Lee, Michael Grasley, and Jason Baldwin Stewart called for custom wallpapers to give the interiors an authentic, lived-in quality. Much of that work involved digitally recreating vintage wallpaper from original rolls, a process that allowed the team to reproduce designs that might otherwise have been difficult to source.

In Rue's bedroom, our delicate Green Floral pattern reinforces the room's childhood-bedroom aesthetic. Its small-scale floral design feels familiar and nostalgic, helping establish the emotional character of the space.

Elsewhere, our Wicker Octagons pattern brings a distinctly retro quality to a basement set. Together, the two patterns demonstrate how dramatically wallpaper can change the feeling of a room and how much a carefully selected pattern can tell us about the people who inhabit it.

Behind the Scenes With Astek

From recreating historic patterns to developing completely custom finishes, our work in film and television is a natural extension of what we love about wallcovering: creating surfaces that transform a space.

Production designers have to think about every element within the frame, and wallcovering offers an incredible amount of creative flexibility. Pattern, scale, color, texture, and finish can all contribute to the story a space is telling.

We're always excited to see where our designs appear next—and to see what production designers dream up when they have an entire world to create.

For more behind-the-scenes looks at our work in film and television, follow our sister brand, [On Air Design, on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.