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Wallpaper was a popular decorating item in Victorian Aspen. Shops advertised new shipments as soon as they arrived. Patterns and colors for decorating walls achieved as much attention as did fashions ...
The Wallpaper Inside This California Victorian Costs More Than a Lot of Homes On the market for $2.25 million, the historic Escondido property got about $400,000 worth of wall treatments during a ...
The vibrant green pigments that 19th century artist William Morris used in the wallpapers he created for the Victorian bourgeoisie may have been slowly poisoning his well-to-do customers -- and he ...
In fact, it’s fair to say that during the Victorian era, Great Britain went wallpaper mad. Between 1834 and 1874, sales of wallpaper rose by more than 2,600%, resulting in more than 32 million ...
Arsenic was known to be a problem before the 1880s. During the Victorian era, which began when Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837, oil lamps improved indoor lighting.
Chronicle file photoThe Tri-Cities Historical Museum in downtown Grand Haven.GRAND HAVEN — Time was a precious commodity in 2004 as Tri-Cities Historical Museum officials prepared to open a new ...
It’s not just the exterior shape of this Malden house that makes it a Victorian. It’s the interior, too, where the hall and dining room walls are adorned with hand-printed and silk-screened ...
Victorian-style animal patterns and tropical prints have become increasingly popular in the design world in recent months. From the domestic to the endangered, prints inspired by zoological and ...
Victorian wall paintings are uncovered during work to revamp a 19th Century property in the ... Victorian art found under wallpaper at Lews Castle. Published. 19 September 2015. Share. close panel.
Victorian wall paintings have been uncovered during work to revamp a 19th Century property in Lewis. Experts have described the artwork found at Lews Castle in Stornoway as an unusual example of ...