PENCHANTS
ON THE SURFACE
erhaps it’s appropriate that Assemblage, a wallcovering manufacturer, is located in a former Arkansas seed mill, for the enterprise reflects a metaphorical reseeding of American craftsmanship. The husband-wife team of Heidi and Christian Batteau, who trained as set designers and decorative painters, decided to use some of those same methods to fashion handcrafted wall coverings, some twenty-nine patterns to date. They
