Design, Production and Reception of Eighteenth-Century Wallpaper in Britain
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architectural history
art history
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Britain
British social history
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China
Chinese Wallpaper
Christchurch Mansion
decoration
decorative arts scholarship
design history
domestic
economic class
eighteenth century
Eighteenth Century Consumerism
Eighteenth Century Interior
Eighteenth Century Papers
eighteenth-century domestic spaces
England
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Etruscan Style
Fine Day
flock
Hampden House
historic interior
historic interiors research
India Paper
India Pictures
interior design
interior ornamentation techniques
James Street
Lady Hertford
Leather Hangings
material culture
material culture studies
Nostell Priory
Paper Hangings
Paper Stainer
papier mache
Silk Damask
stucco
Trade Card
United Kingdom
visual culture
Wall Hangings
wallpaper
wallpaper trade archival analysis
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- ISBN 9780367666408
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 Drawing on a wide range of little known examples of interior schemes and surviving wallpapers, together with unpublished evidence from archives including letters and bills, it charts wallpaper’s evolution across the century from cheap textile imitation to innovative new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 mâché 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.
Clare Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Art History, The Open University.
