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The Design, Production and Reception of Eighteenth-Century Wallpaper in Britain (Hardcover)
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The Design, Production and Reception of Eighteenth-Century Wallpaper in Britain (Hardcover)
Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
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Wallpaper's spread across trades, class and gender is charted in
this first full-length study of the material's use in Britain
during the long eighteenth century. It examines the types of
wallpaper that were designed and produced and the interior spaces
it occupied, from the country house to the homes of prosperous
townsfolk and gentry, showing that wallpaper was hung by Earls and
merchants as well as by aristocratic women. Drawing on a wide range
of little known examples of interior schemes and surviving
wallpapers, together with unpublished evidence from archives
including letters and bills, it charts wallpaper's evolution across
the century from cheap textile imitation to innovative new
decorative material. Wallpaper's growth is considered not in terms
of chronology, but rather alongside the categories used by
eighteenth-century tradesmen and consumers, from plains to flocks,
from China papers to papier mache and from stucco papers to
materials for creating print rooms. It ends by assessing the ways
in which eighteenth-century wallpaper was used to create
historicist interiors in the twentieth century. Including a wide
range of illustrations, many in colour, the book will be of
interest to historians of material culture and design, scholars of
art and architectural history as well as practicing designers and
those interested in the historic interior.
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