25 Replies to “Wordless Wednesday: Unusual Wallpaper Design”
That’s rather lovely!
It’s almost sepia, isn’t it? I wish I’d taken a panorama so I could see the design over the whole room. I took it several years ago. Don’t ask me what made me share it now!
Quite an undertaking to print a design like this too.
I love this, it’s beautiful – I think it has a bit of an oriental look to it 🙂
A peony always makes me think of a Chinese or Japanese garden, even when I see them in England. This was in the American South. I wish I could remember where!
Any design based on nature is beautiful!! Thank you!
Joanna
And so many of them are, luckily for nature-lovers.
Yes, Susan, there are few!
Joanna
PS. If you can, please look up my today’s post about the wildlife of the desert .
naturetails.blog
Gorgeous!!!
Forget making a pattern out of leaves – nothing less than the whole garden will do.
So mid-20th century!
It would have been interesting to see the pattern book this came from. 🙂
There’s a story there; I just know it.
It used to make me smile to see gates in the middle of an open space, but now they almost seem normal. In my part of the UK, gates are to keep people out, so they have walls attached. In the USA, they seem symbolic, as if to say ‘I like gates – the grander the better!’ There doesn’t even seem to be a very good path leading to these gates.
What an interesting bit of decor — a gate for its own sake! I like it, actually; it makes people wonder — or it should! That’s got to be part of the story in this.
I disagree about the century! I’d say it’s antebellum (pre-Civil War–19th Century) U.S. South. Spanish moss hanging from trees is *very* U.S. South!
I’d agree with you it is classic antibellum style. When it was designed and printed is another question!
Pretty but busy. Must be eye popping if a whole room is done in that paper.
The technical aspects of it fascinate me as much as the design. I’m wondering now if it was printed – you’d have to assume so, though it looks painted – when, and what kind of machine.
Looks very turn of the century to me…not the last turn of the century, the one before.
I don’t imagine it would be a best-seller now, although in place, it seemed very fitting.
It’s not to my taste, but it’s certainly better than the undistinguished florals in my grandmother’s house!
Ironic that, as our capabilities to print get broader, our tastes narrow. My walls are magnolia, but pattern, of any kind, still fascinates.
I would have loved Mama (my grandma) to have a design like this. I remember being fascinated by one pattern she had with little vignettes of kitchen memorabilia suspended across her kitchen walls – things a 1960s Viking might have thought blended usefulness and style. It was perfect for playing find the fig, teapot, or whatever. I used to dreamily explore the pattern repeat (a ‘full drop’ though I didn’t learn that term until much later) until the items floated around the room in a kind of dance. I’d love to see it now, for obvious reasons, but also to see how accurately my memory has preserved it. That was around the heyday of wallpaper pattern when decorative styles became affordable for the masses, wallpaper was marketed as hygienic, and was so fashionable that designers could “put anything on it and it would sell”.
Susan Rushton 
That’s rather lovely!
It’s almost sepia, isn’t it? I wish I’d taken a panorama so I could see the design over the whole room. I took it several years ago. Don’t ask me what made me share it now!
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Beautiful wallpaper.
Quite an undertaking to print a design like this too.
I love this, it’s beautiful – I think it has a bit of an oriental look to it 🙂
A peony always makes me think of a Chinese or Japanese garden, even when I see them in England. This was in the American South. I wish I could remember where!
Any design based on nature is beautiful!! Thank you!
Joanna
And so many of them are, luckily for nature-lovers.
Yes, Susan, there are few!
Joanna
PS. If you can, please look up my today’s post about the wildlife of the desert .
naturetails.blog
Gorgeous!!!
Forget making a pattern out of leaves – nothing less than the whole garden will do.
So mid-20th century!
It would have been interesting to see the pattern book this came from. 🙂
There’s a story there; I just know it.
It used to make me smile to see gates in the middle of an open space, but now they almost seem normal. In my part of the UK, gates are to keep people out, so they have walls attached. In the USA, they seem symbolic, as if to say ‘I like gates – the grander the better!’ There doesn’t even seem to be a very good path leading to these gates.
What an interesting bit of decor — a gate for its own sake! I like it, actually; it makes people wonder — or it should! That’s got to be part of the story in this.
I disagree about the century! I’d say it’s antebellum (pre-Civil War–19th Century) U.S. South. Spanish moss hanging from trees is *very* U.S. South!
I’d agree with you it is classic antibellum style. When it was designed and printed is another question!
Pretty but busy. Must be eye popping if a whole room is done in that paper.
The technical aspects of it fascinate me as much as the design. I’m wondering now if it was printed – you’d have to assume so, though it looks painted – when, and what kind of machine.
Looks very turn of the century to me…not the last turn of the century, the one before.
I don’t imagine it would be a best-seller now, although in place, it seemed very fitting.
It’s not to my taste, but it’s certainly better than the undistinguished florals in my grandmother’s house!
Ironic that, as our capabilities to print get broader, our tastes narrow. My walls are magnolia, but pattern, of any kind, still fascinates.
I would have loved Mama (my grandma) to have a design like this. I remember being fascinated by one pattern she had with little vignettes of kitchen memorabilia suspended across her kitchen walls – things a 1960s Viking might have thought blended usefulness and style. It was perfect for playing find the fig, teapot, or whatever. I used to dreamily explore the pattern repeat (a ‘full drop’ though I didn’t learn that term until much later) until the items floated around the room in a kind of dance. I’d love to see it now, for obvious reasons, but also to see how accurately my memory has preserved it. That was around the heyday of wallpaper pattern when decorative styles became affordable for the masses, wallpaper was marketed as hygienic, and was so fashionable that designers could “put anything on it and it would sell”.