Decorating with Wallpaper provides all the guidance and assurance needed to work with wallpaper. Rules do exist, and no one knows them better than the editors of Victoria. For ten years, the finest examples of wallpaper design have appeared in the pages of the magazine - cabbage roses from England, the spiritual home of wallpaper; scenic toile de Jouy from France; and a parade of teacups from America. These rooms have been collected in the first book devoted entirely to the subject, from the vast array of available patterns to guidelines for combining them with borders and trims, to devices for matching wallpaper and fabric. And like any good guidebook, Decorating with Wallpaper tells when to break all the rules.
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Catherine Calvert is an editor-at-large for Victoria magazine. She is the author of Coffee: The Essential Guide to the Essential Bean, Lace, and The Romance of British Colonial Style. Victoria magazine, now ten years old, reaches more than one million readers every month. Its articles are devoted to the home, cooking, and fashion.
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Walls wrap our world, and from the moment we began to build houses, we have decorated them. Though some of us live happily in a quiet white cube, content to paint and be done with it, for more than three hundred years wallpapers--whether grand and rich in detail or simply strewn with posies-- have embellished the rooms that hold our lives. Fashion may command a bold stripe one year, a pale and sandy textured wall the next. For those who like to pore over the great volumes of samples, roaming from era to era with the flip of a page, choices have never been richer. Take a wallpaper roll and a brush full of glue to a room and personality blooms, a personality beyond the power of paint. Clever use of wallpaper and borders can manipulate the space, as well as the mood, of the rooms in which we live. What was a box is transformed: Awkward corners disappear, ceilings lift, and furniture and curtains come into a closer relationship than was possible when all sat marooned within white walls. Once wallpapers were a rich man's whimsy. George Washington took it upon himself to order all the wall coverings for Mount Vernon, commanding neat papers in plain blue and green with embossed borders of gold papier-m. But when machines clattered into action during the Industrial Revolution, cheaper wallpapers by the mile covered workingmen's parlors as well as the grand salons of the wealthy. What had begun as fashion's plaything, a clever substitute for far more precious materials, by the end of the nineteenth century had become nearly universal, combining charm and utility in a pattern for living that set the pace for entire decorating schemes.
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Beautiful to look through but rather Standard,
By "salsheti" (Manama, Bahrain) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Decorating with Wallpaper (Hardcover)
This little book is beauty for the coffee table, but unfortunatly it offers no real inovative or new ideas. I bought it a while ago but just got round to using it in my projects. It offers the traditional mix and match of fabrics with wall coverings. It actually is more interesting as a general interior design book than one exclusively for wallpaper as the title would suggest. The pictures show the wallpaper used to only decorate a room, rather than to create you know that something that you want by changing from paint to wallpaper or just changing the wallpaper to achieve a new look.
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This review is from: Decorating with Wallpaper (Hardcover)
I just drooled when I first saw this book! If you have ever seen Victoria magazine, you can imagine the quality fo the pictures. They are breathtaking and gave me so many ideas At the back of the book is several pages of actual wallpaper..it is incorporated into the book, and it is so tempting to pull them out and create something with them!
I have so many beautiful Victorian items but never know how to group or display them This book gave me ideas i would not have come up with on my own
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loaded with Embellishment Influence & Creative Solutions!,
By Eternal Gifter "Aunt Rosie" (Chicagoland, IL) - See all my reviews
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Great timeless ideas to embellish your rooms. Limitless paper choices in design will inspire many a theme or idea. A wonderful source for influence and creative solutions. The many lovely photos and examples are a terrific jump start to customize your creative challenge. I am thrilled to add this book to my permanent reference book collection!
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