Interior designers live or die on suppliers. A considered concept means nothing if the artwork arrives in nine weeks, the wallpaper batch shifts colour, or the trade discount evaporates into a retail checkout that treats a forty-piece order like a gift purchase. This is a plain-language guide to what a wall decor trade program should actually give a designer, and how ours works, from someone on the manufacturing side of the relationship.
The short version: Olive et Oriel's Designer Trade & Commercial Program gives designers, architects, stylists and builders trade pricing across every collection, complimentary wallpaper samples, expedited dispatch and a dedicated concierge, backed by the thing most art suppliers cannot offer, our own two production facilities in West Gosford, NSW, where the artwork, the printing and every solid timber frame is made.
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What Designers Actually Need From a Wall Decor Supplier
- Margin that survives the project: real trade pricing on the whole range, not a code that dies at sale items and popular sizes.
- Speed a project can schedule around: made-to-order production in a couple of business days, the fastest custom art turnaround in Australia, with expedited dispatch for trade clients. Install dates hold.
- Custom as a service, not an exception: every artwork sized to the actual wall, wallpaper printed to measured dimensions via the custom wallpaper service, colourways adjusted to a scheme. When it is made in-house, custom is Tuesday.
- Depth beyond the website: trade clients access tens of thousands of artworks not visible online, if you have seen it elsewhere, we can likely source or make it.
- One accountable human: a dedicated concierge who knows your projects, not a ticket queue.
A trade program is not a discount. It is a promise that the supplier's process will never become the designer's problem.
The Manufacturing Difference
Most Australian art retailers are resellers: they order prints from the same wholesale catalogues and frame through third parties. The practical consequences land on designers, fixed sizes, no colour control, restock lotteries, and no answer when a client damages one panel of a discontinued design. Manufacturing changes each of those sentences. We design and make everything at our own facilities: fine art printing with archival pigment inks, canvas stretching, and solid timber frames cut and joined on Italian machinery by our own artisans, in oak, white and black finishes. For designers this means exact reprints years later, colour direction on any series, honest lead-time answers, and framing consistency across a whole project. There is an art surrounding the art, and controlling it in-house is why the promise above is keepable.
What the Range Covers (One Account, Every Wall)
- Art: from the designer-favourite modern contemporary art in neutrals (700-plus works) through abstract wall art, fine art photography, Australian landscapes and extra large statement pieces, framed, canvas, or print-only for your own framer.
- Residential wallpaper: the full designer range plus custom design and sizing.
- Commercial wallcoverings: Type II commercial vinyl made in Australia, Greenguard GOLD certified inks, no formaldehyde or heavy metals, the specification detail is in our Type II guide.
- Sectors: residential projects, staging, hotels (see the hotel guide), offices (the fitout guide), childcare (dedicated range) and healthcare.
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How the Program Works
- 1. Apply: the trade page takes minutes, designers, architects, property stylists, builders and procurement managers all qualify.
- 2. Speak with commercial management: a direct conversation confirms your trade pricing, no anonymous tier tables.
- 3. Sample freely: complimentary wallpaper samples for project selection, without cost or ceremony.
- 4. Order with a concierge: one contact across quoting, custom work, production and dispatch, who learns how your studio likes to work.
- 5. Deliver anywhere: Australia-wide, and to more than 40 countries with all import duties paid, international projects land at the quoted price.
Designer Tips (From the Supply Side)
- Bring us the mood board before the shortlist, colour-directing an existing series to your scheme is often faster than hunting a perfect match.
- For staging and multi-property work, standardise on two frame finishes and let the art rotate; your install crews get faster every project.
- Use print-only supply when your client has a framer relationship, and framed supply when timeline is king; both run through the same trade pricing.
- Ask for the not-on-website catalogue early on hospitality briefs; the depth surprises every first-time trade client.
- Batch your samples per project, not per SKU, one concierge conversation, one satchel, faster client sign-off.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who qualifies for the Olive et Oriel trade program?
Interior designers, architects, property stylists, home stagers, builders and procurement managers, working on residential or commercial projects. Apply online and our commercial management team confirms your trade access directly.
What discount do trade members receive?
Trade pricing applies across all collections, art, wallpaper and commercial wallcoverings, and is confirmed personally by our commercial management team when your application is approved, so the structure fits how you buy rather than a one-size tier.
How fast is trade supply?
Made-to-order production runs in a couple of business days at our own facilities, the fastest custom art turnaround in Australia, and trade orders ship with expedited dispatch. Large project packages are scheduled to your install program.
Can trade clients get custom artwork and wallpaper?
Custom is the core service: art sized to real walls, series extended or colour-directed to a scheme, and wallpaper designed and printed to measured dimensions. In-house manufacturing means custom work adds days, not months.
Do you supply art without frames for trade?
Yes, print-only and canvas-only supply is available where studios prefer their own framing, at the same trade pricing logic. Framed supply runs solid timber, oak, white or black finish, made at our facilities.
Does the program cover commercial wallcoverings?
Fully: our Australian-made Type II commercial vinyl range, childcare and healthcare wallcoverings, and custom commercial printing all run through the same trade account, one supplier for every wall in the project.
Do you deliver to project sites and internationally?
Australia-wide to site or studio, and to more than 40 countries with all import duties paid, the landed price is the quoted price, which keeps international project budgets honest.
Apply at the Designer Trade & Commercial Program, then start with art in neutrals, custom wallpaper or the commercial vinyl range. Designed and made in Australia; supplied worldwide.
