12/06/2026
When a commission arrives that allows us to briefly pretend we’re interior designers we’re always going to jump at it. MariPili at Café Frieda at the Frye Art Museum arrived as part art installation, part design brief. Jamilee Lacy Jamilee Lacy , the Frye’s Executive Director is a fellow mural-lover and wallcovering devotee so those elements were always going to be integrated into our design.
The café is situated within the museum and allowed for very little scope to alter the flooring or millwork. Run by Chef Grayson Pilar Grayson Pilar the café menu features her Galician cooking, so the brief started on the Galician coast. We kept returning to Sargadelos – the cobalt-and-white porcelain made in Galicia with beautiful graphic patterning. Those punchy blue designs became the inspiration for the drapery: a textile repeat we designed ourselves, printed with Spoonflower | wallpaper , fabric + home decor and had produced into curtains and drapes by LP Studio
From there the room filled in around it. A ceiling mural we designed that was executed by Rocky Road Studios , ceramic vessels by Kassandra Guzman kuupottery , a backsplash by Fireclay Tile Fireclay Tile
We’ve written the full story over on the journal – the brief, the blue ceramics, and everyone who brought it to life. Link in bio.
Images courtesy of Frye Art Museum Frye Art Museum
Photo Credit: Runyon Collie