Showroom Dummies is a design collective which unites the complementary talents of artist Abigail Lane, fashion designer Brigitte Stepputtis, printer Bob Pain, and Edwin Wright, designer and maker of furniture and theatre props. The group has so far specialised in producing wallpapers, fabrics, tiles and furniture printed with everything from dogs, bugs and lizards to erupting volcanoes and frolicking skeletons; their first collection was called Interior Motives (Natural Histories and Natural Disasters).

The designs and the chosen motifs are bold, dramatic, theatrical and provocative, well-adapted to the kinds of eye-catching display that shop windows demand. For Christmas 2004 The Mulberry Company commissioned them to collaborate on specially designed interiors and window-dressing props for their retail outlets. The Mulberry commission inspired folding Perspex screens, printed with life-size reindeer (see E.380-2005), and this wallpaper, which looks at first sight like an elegant rococo-style abstract design, but up close it is obvious that the patterns are arrangements of bones - reindeer bones.