1st Edition
The Design, Production and Reception of Eighteenth-Century Wallpaper in Britain
Introduction; 1.‘Paper Hangings for Rooms’: the arrival of wallpaper; 2. A contested trade; 3. Imitation and the cross-cultural encounter: ‘India’ and ‘mock India’ papers, pictures and prints; 4. In search of propriety: flocks and plains; 5. Challenging the high arts: papier mâché, stucco papers and ‘landskip’ papers; 6. ‘Our modern paper hangings’: in search of the fashionable and the new; Epilogue: 'Pleasing decay' – the rediscovery of eighteenth-century wallpapers; Appendix 1: List of principal wallpapered rooms discussed, c.1714–c.1795; Appendix 2. List of eighteenth-century London paper hangings tradesmen discussed; Bibliography
Biography
Clare Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Art History, The Open University.
Finalist for the Historians of British Art book award
"The book is geared to historians of material culture and design scholars. ... [Taylor] reaches her target audience by addressing and examining areas of greatest interest as the book is informative and packed with detailed information. This book would be of interest to anyone interested in wallpaper history, eighteenth-century industry or period interiors. Illustrations are plentiful, numerous endnotes follow each chapter, and there is an extensive bibliography."
--Journal of Design History
