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Wallpaper has seen a huge rise in popularity, and vintage styles are following suit. Expert Sarah Bilotta tells us about the historic trend that's coming back.
EGREMONT — "The day was dull, the light was grey and the bold patterns in the drawing room were forming into a storm." The wallpaper of the Braithwite house holds many secrets. For Lucy Braithwite, ...
Those looks might strike you dead, but in the Victorian period, wallpaper could–and did–kill. In one sense, it wasn’t that unusual, writes Haniya Rae for The Atlantic.
As she peeled off the lining paper in her stairwell, instead of finding bare plaster, she unearthed intriguing patterned wallpaper which might date back to when the house was first built in 1891.
Morris didn’t just have his identity as an artist linked to the wallpaper industry and its arsenic pigments, which allowed for the mass production of newly vibrant and durable colors; his wealth ...
Bill Bryson’s book, “At Home,” tells of the popularity of wallpaper and the use of arsenic in producing it. Bryson notes that in the late 1890s people observed the connection between chronic illness ...
Shop has a chandelier and antique Victorian wallpaper IT is perhaps Britain's poshest newsagent with a chandelier, antique Victorian wallpaper and sells ciabatta sandwiches and prosecco. By Sarah Ward ...
History and origins of Victorian interior design Economic prosperity in England during the Victorian period—when Queen Victoria was in power, that is—is the central factor behind the Victorian ...
The earliest surviving fragment of European wallpaper, found in Christ's College Cambridge, dates from 1509. It was made by Hugo Goes of York, and has a damask-style design of pomegranates derived ...
Victorian wall paintings have been uncovered during work to revamp a 19th Century property in Lewis. Experts have described the artwork found at Lews Castle in Stornoway as an unusual example of ...