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The papered wall : the history, patterns and techniques of wallpaper

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection B249

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Type of record: Book

Title: The papered wall : the history, patterns and techniques of wallpaper

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection B249

Additional creator(s): Hoskins, Lesley (Editor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: Thames and Hudson

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1994]

Language: English

Size and medium: 256 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729534

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019887455505181

Description

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-250) and index.


Manifold beginnings : single-sheet papers / Geert Wisse -- Flocks, florals and fancies : English manufacture, 1680-1830 / Anthony Wells-Cole -- The China trade : Oriental painted panels / Gill Saunders -- Luxury perfected : the ascendancy of French wallpaper, 1770-1870 / Bernard Jacqué -- Arabesques and allegories : French decorative panels / Véronique de Bruignac -- Wide horizons : French scenic papers / Odile Nouvel-Kammerer -- An ocean apart : imports and the beginning of American manufacture / Richard C. Nylander -- The English response : mechanization and design reform / Joanna Banham.


Proliferation : late 19th-century papers, markets and manufacturers / Christine Woods, Joanne Kosuda Warner, Bernard Jacqué -- Unsteady progress : from the turn of the century to the Second World War / Sabine Thümmler, Mark Turner -- Post-war promise : pattern and technology up to 1970 / Joanne Kosuda Warner, Lesley Hoskins -- Off the shelf : design and consumer trends since 1970 / Mary Schoeser -- Postscript : the rescue and care of wallpapers / Sarah Mansell.


Chronological account by experts from Belgium, Britain, France, Germany and America.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B249: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: WL/6.

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