St. James, which has seventeen colors, requires seventeen different prints with seventeen separate screens, each of which must perfectly align with the next one. Printing tables are ninety feet long and hold six rolls of wallpaper.
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This tweet was posted on November 16, 2022.
The Victorians’ intense fascination with the exotic stemmed from popular novels, illustrated travelogues, exhibitions, and increasing travel by steamship. Entire rooms might be fashioned in Moorish or Japanese-inspired designs. #victorianpaperedwall
This tweet was posted on January 04, 2023.
The individual patterns of this Persian ceiling paper set were drawn and adapted from examples of the Persian and Indo-Persian patterns depicted in Albert Racinet’s compendium "L’Ornement Polychrome," published in installments between 1869 and 1873. #victorianpaperedwall
This tweet was posted on December 21, 2022.
The individual patterns of this Persian ceiling paper set were drawn and adapted from examples of the Persian and Indo-Persian patterns depicted in Albert Racinet’s compendium L’Ornement Polychrome, published in installments between 1869 and 1873. #victorianpaperedwall
This tweet was posted on August 24, 2022.
The pedestal and wallpaper serve as perfect and elaborate compliments to each other. The use of metallic ink on the paper lend a dramatic glow to the wall. #victorianpaperedwall
This tweet was posted on August 17, 2022.
The success of "L’Ornement Polychrome" prompted a second series in 1885. The lavish imagery presented in both sets drew from cultures around the world and featured a variety of mediums, including woodwork, metalwork, architecture, textiles, and painting.
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This tweet was posted on December 21, 2022.
The success of L’Ornement Polychrome prompted a second series in 1885. The lavish imagery presented in both sets drew from cultures around the world & featured a variety of mediums, including woodwork, metalwork, architecture, textiles, painting, & pottery.
#victorianpaperedwall
This tweet was posted on August 24, 2022.
To create the reproductions, art director Stephen Bauer traveled to Ionia, Michigan’s public library where the only surviving installation of the fill and frieze of Wheeler’s Honeybee wallpaper exists.
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This tweet was posted on May 11, 2022.
To produce the dado, Bauer relied on a published engraving and a written description of it. He then located a sample of Wheeler’s design for the ceiling from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper
This tweet was posted on May 11, 2022.
William Burges, an architect, interior designer, & furniture designer, was as a proponent of the Gothic Revival in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Completely enamored by the medieval aesthetic, he created fanciful buildings with lavishly decorated interiors. #victorianpaperedwall
This tweet was posted on January 19, 2022.
“Why not then, have beautiful ceilings, especially as they can be seen complete, while the wall is part hidden by furniture and pictures?….We glory in a clear blue sky overhead…Why then make our ceilings white?” - Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper
This tweet was posted on July 27, 2022.