A large-scale, late-19th century wallpaper with a bold pattern of exotic birds...A large-scale, late-19th century wallpaper with a bold pattern of exotic birds and flowers. The paper had beenused in a curving stairwell in Crowe Hall, a Suffolk manor house where the vertical nature of the trailing patternemphasised the height of the...more
An abstract paper, which, despite its contemporary appearance, probably dates ...An abstract paper, which, despite its contemporary appearance, probably dates back to the early 1800s when such designs were hugely popular. The original colourway, featuring orangey stars on a pinky-yellow ground, was discovered on an upper floor of a...more
From the hand-printed ‘Apsley Collection’ by John Line & Sons, this relaxed in...From the hand-printed ‘Apsley Collection’ by John Line & Sons, this relaxed interpretation of an urban Hampstead scene is attributed to designer Els Calvetti. All the line detail is retained and even the original colourways of grey and blue have been...more
Created through the simplification and reduction of the larger ‘Woodblock Trai...Created through the simplification and reduction of the larger ‘Woodblock Trail’ paper and represents the trendthroughout the ages for varying the scales of designs to create different visual effects. Rather more delicate, andinfinitely usable in a...more
An abstract paper, which, despite its contemporary appearance, probably dates ...An abstract paper, which, despite its contemporary appearance, probably dates back to the early 1800s when such designs were hugely popular. The original colourway, featuring orangey stars on a pinky-yellow ground, was discovered on an upper floor of a...more
From the hand-printed ‘Apsley Collection’ by John Line & Sons, this relaxed in...From the hand-printed ‘Apsley Collection’ by John Line & Sons, this relaxed interpretation of an urban Hampstead scene is attributed to designer Els Calvetti. All the line detail is retained and even the original colourways of grey and blue have been...more
From the hand-printed ‘Apsley Collection’ by John Line & Sons, this relaxed in...From the hand-printed ‘Apsley Collection’ by John Line & Sons, this relaxed interpretation of an urban Hampstead scene is attributed to designer Els Calvetti. All the line detail is retained and even the original colourways of grey and blue have been...more
Very much a twentieth century design, this is a 1950’s English pattern found a...Very much a twentieth century design, this is a 1950’s English pattern found at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. A band of fine, single colour white stripes over flat ground(s), it’s in fact the space between stripes that creates the subtle...more
Originally produced as a design on fabric, the larger scale production of this...Originally produced as a design on fabric, the larger scale production of this classic 19th Century stripe was a natural development from the early ‘open trough’ printing method referred to in ‘Broad Stripe’. Its name is taken from the Regency fashion...more
This contemporary take on a classic pattern is a post WWII reinterpretation of...This contemporary take on a classic pattern is a post WWII reinterpretation of an 18th-century French Toile de Jouy design. Featuring vignettes of people in activity including fishing, dancing and gardening, this single colour design has been printed...more
Created through the simplification and reduction of the larger ‘Woodblock Trai...Created through the simplification and reduction of the larger ‘Woodblock Trail’ paper and represents the trendthroughout the ages for varying the scales of designs to create different visual effects. Rather more delicate, andinfinitely usable in a...more
A large-scale, late-19th century wallpaper with a bold pattern of exotic birds...A large-scale, late-19th century wallpaper with a bold pattern of exotic birds and flowers. The paper had beenused in a curving stairwell in Crowe Hall, a Suffolk manor house where the vertical nature of the trailing patternemphasised the height of the...more
A large-scale, late-19th century wallpaper with a bold pattern of exotic birds...A large-scale, late-19th century wallpaper with a bold pattern of exotic birds and flowers. The paper had beenused in a curving stairwell in Crowe Hall, a Suffolk manor house where the vertical nature of the trailing patternemphasised the height of the...more
A large-scale, late-19th century wallpaper with a bold pattern of exotic birds...A large-scale, late-19th century wallpaper with a bold pattern of exotic birds and flowers. The paper had beenused in a curving stairwell in Crowe Hall, a Suffolk manor house where the vertical nature of the trailing patternemphasised the height of the...more