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A complementary fill pattern above the dado set off framed prints hung from picture rails; a frieze, or decorative border, adorned the top of walls. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.
A complex pattern for an average size Victorian room can require over one thousand individual impressions! #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on November 16, 2022.
A dado covered the lower part of the wall and provided an alternative to wood paneling. A fill pattern sat above the dado and provided a background for framed prints that hung from picture rails. A frieze, or decorative border, adorned the top of walls. #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on October 26, 2022.
As the company’s artistic director, Bauer scours authentic patterns found in museum and archival collections, factory records, early wallpaper sample books, and period literature to create his artisanal wallpapers. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on December 03, 2021.
Asian themes were favored as sitting rooms. Moorish and Turkish décor, on the other hand, often transformed a corner nook, parlor, or smoking room. Certainly, a room set such as this one was intended to transport its homeowner into a fantastical realm. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on January 04, 2023.
Before long, Bruce began crafting his own Victorian wallpapers in the evenings and weekends at the studio in Benicia and established a mail-order business. In 1979, @BradburyWalls' first catalog featured twelve hand-silkscreened period wallpapers. #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on November 17, 2021.
Bruce Bradbury arrived in San Francisco from Maine in the 1960s and discovered neighborhoods with seemingly endless rows of elaborately ornamented Victorian houses. Once inside, Bruce imagined the interiors restored to their former glory. #VictorianPaperedWall #wallpaper This tweet was posted on October 05, 2022.
Bruce Bradbury established Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers (@BradburyWalls) in 1979. After exploring the wallpaper collections at the @V_and_A in London, Bruce taught himself to silkscreen while working at wallpaper factories in Benicia & San Francisco. #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on November 17, 2021.
Bruce taught himself to silkscreen while working at wallpaper factories in Benicia and San Francisco. Before long, he began crafting his own Victorian wallpapers in the evenings and weekends at the studio in Benicia and established a mail-order business. #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on October 05, 2022.
Burges preferred wall paintings to wallpaper; nevertheless, he designed several papers. Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers’ (@BradburyWalls) High Victorian Gothic room set draws its inspiration from Burges’ imaginative medievalism. #victorianpaperedwall #wallpaper This tweet was posted on January 19, 2022.
Christian Herter (1839–83) arrived in New York from Germany in 1859 and became a full partner in his brother Gustave’s firm in 1864, forming Herter Brothers. The large firm created interiors for some of the most magnificent homes across the country. #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on May 25, 2022.
Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) realized a future in which high-quality design could merge with machine production. He enjoyed a prolific career, designing everything from wallpaper to furniture, metalwork, ceramics, and textiles. #victorianpaperedwall #wallpaper This tweet was posted on July 27, 2022.
Complementary ceiling papers added to the densely patterned effect. #VictorianPaperedWall #wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on October 26, 2022.
Dresser instructed that more patterns, such as these designs, and color could adorn the ceiling as it did not serve as a background like the walls or floor. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on July 27, 2022.
English architect and designer Augustus W. N. Pugin (1812–52) embraced Gothic as the only true design style. #victorianpaperedwall #wallpaper #wallpaperwednesdays #design This tweet was posted on March 30, 2022.
English designer William Morris created the original design for @BradburyWalls St. James wallpaper for Queen Victoria for St. James’s Palace. This time-lapsed video shows the wallpaper, which requires 17 different colors, being hand silk-screened. #victorianpaperedwall https://t.co/MVA6kMbKih This tweet was posted on September 21, 2022.
Fashionable Aesthetic Movement interiors displayed threefold division of walls. A dado covered the lower part of the wall and provided an alternative to wood paneling. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.
From 1875–80, Burges designed his own home, the Tower House in London, in the Gothic Revival style. Burges incorporated figurative scenes in his heavily ornamented designs, conjuring myths, medieval romances, and animal fables. #victorianpaperedwall #wallpaper This tweet was posted on January 19, 2022.
From the 19th century, in both Britain and the United States, fashionable homes in the Aesthetic Movement style featured interiors with tripartite walls that displayed a dado, a fill pattern, and a frieze. #VictorianPaperedWall #wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on October 26, 2022.
Hand silkscreened in Benicia, California, the Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers (@BradburyWalls) presented in this exhibition are Victorian-era room sets that feature both wall and elaborate ceiling papers. https://t.co/zqCl6PmNEN #victorianpaperedwall #wallpaper This tweet was posted on October 08, 2021.
Herter Brothers’ holistic approach included designs for furniture, wall and ceiling decoration, and floor treatments. One wallpaper featured a design of peacock feathers; another fill paper and frieze exhibited floral and animal motifs on a dark background. #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on May 25, 2022.
In 1979, Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers first catalog featured twelve hand-silkscreened period wallpapers. In 1981, Bruce moved into the studio where Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers still resides today, in Benicia, CA. #VictorianPaperedWall #wallpaper This tweet was posted on October 05, 2022.
In 1981, Bruce moved into the studio where Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers (@BradburyWalls) still resides today, a nineteenth-century former U.S. Army arsenal in Benicia, California. #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on November 17, 2021.
In 2005 when Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpaper founder Bruce Bradbury retired, Stephen Bauer and his wife Lisa took over the company. Bauer, a gifted illustrator, began apprenticing at @BradburyWall in 1982 at the young age of nineteen. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on December 03, 2021.
International exhibitions of Islamic and other non-Western arts helped fuel European and American interest in and desire for these styles, as did the collections of early museums, such as the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on August 24, 2022.
International exhibitions of Islamic and other non-Western arts helped fuel the public’s desire for these styles, as did the collections of early museums, such as the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on December 21, 2022.
Many of Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers’ patterns are initially hand painted on acetate or by cutting a stencil. For every pattern created, a separate stencil or silkscreen must be prepared for each different color. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on November 16, 2022.
Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign ignited a fascination with ancient Egypt that continued into the Victorian era, and its Egyptian Revival design craze. This ebonized and polychromed pedestal with painted lotus flowers provides a striking example of the style. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on August 17, 2022.
New exhibit alert! “The Victorian Papered Wall” is now on display pre-security in the International Terminal. From its inception, #wallpaper imitated luxurious materials, providing a more affordable alternative to tapestries, fabrics, and mural paintings. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on October 08, 2021.
Paint is forced through the stencil using a plastic-bladed squeegee. The printer must skip every other repeat to prevent the silkscreen frame from falling in wet ink. Each screen lays down one color at a time. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on November 16, 2022.
Reproducing historic wallpaper is no easy feat. In 2015, @BradburyWalls completed a commission for the Mark Twain House in Connecticut. The project recreated Candace Wheeler’s Honeybee wallpaper from 1881, which included a fill, dado, frieze, & ceiling paper #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on May 11, 2022.
Silkscreens require a coating of photo-sensitive emulsion, essentially like a large piece of film. The screen & artwork are sandwiched in a large vacuum frame & exposed to light. Areas exposed to the light become impervious; the other areas are washed away. #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on November 16, 2022.
Special thank you to @BradburyWalls for making this exhibition possible. “The Victorian Papered Wall” is on display pre-security in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zqCl6PmNEN #victorianpaperedwall #wallpaper #wallpaperWednesday #design This tweet was posted on July 27, 2022.
Special thank you to @BradburyWalls for making this exhibition possible. “The Victorian Papered Wall” is on display pre-security in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zqCl6PmNEN #victorianpaperedwall #wallpaper #wallpapers #design This tweet was posted on August 17, 2022.
Special thank you to Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers (@BradburyWalls) for making this exhibition possible. “The Victorian Papered Wall” is on display pre-security in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/zqCl6PmNEN #VictorianPaperedWall #wallpaper This tweet was posted on October 05, 2022.
Special thank you to Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers (@BradburyWalls) for making this exhibition possible. See “The Victorian Papered Wall” is now on display pre-security in the International Terminal https://t.co/zqCl6PmNEN #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on November 17, 2021.