Martinique wallpaper, that fresh banana leaf print that graces the walls of the Beverly Hills Hotel and Indochine, has the power to transform even the starkest of interiors into a tropical retreat ...

He could: The banana-leaf pattern Martinique, launched the next year, would soon be installed in CW Stockwell’s showroom—and featured in AD.

The iconic pattern has a shady past.1985: Blanche Devereaux's bedroom on the Golden Girls features a banana leaf-print wallpaper and a matching bedspread. 2004: In the film The Aviator, Howard ...

Here’s how: Wallpaper: If CW Stockwell’s Martinique paper is out of your price range, similar prints abound. Etsy’s WallFlora Shop has a peel and stick wallpaper with a banana leaf design.