The Manufacture
How obsessed must one be to work for weeks on the design of a single wall? Is it alchemy when chalk, tiny glass beads and gold leaf are turned into materials never seen before? And how daring must a client be to commission artists to create walls and ceilings that no one else can imagine?
Welcome to our particular world of Wandunikate. Follow our trail – "outside the box".
More about the manufacture№ 01 / Materials
Each wall a unicate
White powder turns into porcelain-like surfaces, silver crystals into shimmering ceilings. Light breaks in coloured glass beads. In our manufacture we create the materials that finally give rooms their own personality and presence. "Authenticity moves in." Made in our atelier in the heart of Berlin-Schöneberg.
Wallpapers
Forget everything you have learned about wallpaper. None of it applies here. With us, it is people who make wallpaper, not machines. No mass printers. We apply colour with brushes, sprinkle real glass beads by hand into adhesive and lay metal leaf onto the paper, sheet by sheet. Every length, every centimetre is the result of our passion and craft. We love our work.
Panels
Wallpaper that you cannot roll? That is not quite right. In any case, we are not a wallpaper manufacture – we are the manufacture for Wandunikate. We do not stop at rolls; we also make panels. No, not wooden boiseries, but relief-like surfaces so deeply structured that they simply cannot be rolled. And so they do not look like tiles, we have developed near-seamless installation systems. Did I mention that we are obsessed with surfaces?
№ 01 7 STAR · STONE FACETS 
№ 02 VENEER · PANELS 
№ 03 CHAMELEON · PANELS 
№ 04 Polygons in gold 
№ 05 Glas Deluxe № 02 / Applications
Material becomes architecture
What is the most wonderful moment for us? Designing a surface? Mixing colours? Immersing ourselves in the artistic processes? Modelling, painting, carving? Or bringing the Wandunikate into the room? We do not know ourselves what brings the greatest sense of happiness. Probably all of it together. But the most wonderful moment for you will be the one when the Wandunikat made especially for you has found its place and your room appears in a new garment.
The vision„I want rooms to whisper into my ear how good they feel and how happy they are with the people who live in them."
— Ulrich Welter
№ 03 / The Manufacture
Happiness in golden dust
Can you imagine what it feels like to be bored by everything that already exists? Do you know how much one can suffer when entering rooms that quietly tell you how unhappy they are not to unfold in full splendour? And do you know what is the only remedy?
Creating something new. Turning inner images into something tangible – dreams into matter. That is what we have been doing in our manufacture for more than 40 years. In 1985, Ulrich Welter founded the Manufaktur für Wandunikate in a Berlin courtyard. In craft and artistic processes, people who live their dreams design and produce the materials that allow apartments, hotels, yachts, boutiques and furniture around the world to tell their own stories. This is our contribution to making the world a more beautiful place.
- Founded
- 1985 · Berlin
- Founder
- Ulrich Welter
- Discipline
- Handcrafted wall surfaces
- Member
- Deutsche Manufakturen e.V.
Also created for international stages – film sets, gala constructions, museums.
More about the manufacture№ 04 / References
In good company
„You may call me Oscar. WELTER on the stages of the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Emmy Awards and others."
№ 05 / Film
The manufacture
in moving image.
134 seconds inside our workshop in Berlin-Schöneberg.
№ 06 / Contact
Let us begin with a conversation.
What has your home whispered into your ear? What does it long for? We are eager to hear how we can give it the space it deserves.
Atelier
Bülowstraße 6610783 Berlin
Germany