An exhibition you enter in socks: Baubauwall helped print wallpaper panels for the Estonian Museum of Architecture

On 19 February, the Estonian Museum of Architecture opened the exhibition “8 Women. 4 Dialogues on Space” — a powerful spatial installation where wallpaper is not simply a backdrop, but an active architectural element.
We are very happy that Baubauwall contributed to the exhibition production by printing the wallpaper rolls used in the installation.
This is not a conventional wall-based exhibition. In the exhibition design, wallpaper panels flow from the ceiling onto a white carpeted floor, creating an immersive environment that visitors move through physically — quite literally inside the material. It is a tactile and spatial experience, and yes, one that invites visitors to enter in socks.

Four dialogues across generations of interior architecture

The exhibition brings focus to four Estonian women interior architects — Maia Laul, Kirsti Laanemaa, Aate-Heli Õun and Maimu Plees — whose creative peak took place during the Soviet era. Their work is placed in dialogue with four contemporary women interior architects working today.
At the heart of the exhibition are four dialogues: on one side, a present-day practitioner; on the other, a predecessor from decades earlier. The exhibition asks questions that feel especially relevant to professionals working with interiors today: What can be meaningfully carried forward from earlier generations?
Can interiors created under very different political, social and economic conditions still speak to contemporary practice?
What becomes visible when today’s interior architects study the legacy of those who came before them — not as history alone, but as working material for reflection and inspiration?
This intergenerational approach gives the exhibition a rare depth. It is not only about authorship and archives, but about continuity, interpretation and professional lineage.
Research-based curatorial work and a strong spatial concept
The exhibition grew out of the project “People in the Picture”, conducted by Taimi Soo and Irena Timusk, which brought together biographical and creative materials on Estonian women interior architects from private archives and museum collections, with support from the Estonian Association of Interior Architects.

Why this matters to us at Baubauwall Wallpapers?

At Baubauwall, we work with wallpaper every day, but projects like this remind us how far the material can go when used with a strong spatial idea.
In this exhibition, wallpaper does not behave like a decorative finish. It shapes movement, frames perception, softens and directs the experience of space. For anyone working in interior architecture, exhibition design or scenography, it is a beautiful example of how printed surfaces can carry both visual and conceptual weight.

A good reason to visit — also to experience the wallpaper material in real space

If you are interested in interior architecture, materials and spatial storytelling, this exhibition is well worth a visit. It is also a great opportunity to see printed wallpaper surfaces at scale: how they behave in space, how they catch light, and how material presence changes the atmosphere of an installation.
For us, it is especially meaningful to see wallpaper used not as background, but as a core element of spatial composition.

Visit the exhibition

If you are in Estonia (or planning a design-focused visit to Tallinn), we warmly recommend seeing it in person.
“8 Women. 4 Dialogues on Space” is open at the Estonian Museum of Architecture until 24 May.