LONDON WALLPAPERS BY LITTLE GREENE: NEW IN 2008
Comprising 47 colour-ways over eight designs, each wallpaper has been inspired by historical documents in the English Heritage archive. Spanning the years between 1760 and 1890, the papers were originally manufactured in London to decorate smart city and country homes, and each design has a provenance tracing it back to the original house in which it was discovered.
Little Greene's aim is to bring these archive designs back to life, re-interpreting them in a way that makes them suitable for use in the 21st Century.
The range includes:
Soho Square: -
a reproduction of a silk damask fabric. The original paper was a strongly patterned crimson flock on pink ground. It was, somewhat unusually, used to paper the entire first floor of a Soho Square household. circa 1775.
Craven St.: -
A late 19th Century machine-made design, discovered in a row of Georgian terraced houses in Craven Street. The original paper may have been produced in a wallpaper factory off Liverpool Road in Islington, the last bastion of wallpaper production in London. circa 1885
Broadwick St.: -
Found in a row of elegant early 18th Century houses in Broadwick Street, Soho, this design is remarkable in that it was based on a botanically accurate reproduction of a plant, Clusia Rosea, first recorded in a famous book the Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands in 1743. circa 1775.
St. James Place -
Discovered in the first floor entertaining room of a house in the fashionable St James Place, Piccadilly, the original design was produced in strong crimson flock with white highlights. circa 1760
Great Ormond St.: -
A colourful parrot motif, closely based upon one of a multi-layered group of papers removed from the ground floor rear closet of a very early 18th Century terraced house opposite the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. This design was subsequently machine-made on cellulose paper in the late 19th Century. circa 1890.
Cranford: -
This mid 18th Century paper, found at Cranford, Middlesex, has a yellow floral ogee motif printed onto thick hand-made rag paper. It is unusual because yellow, although a popular colour, was expensive and prone to fading. circa 1765.
Albemarle St.: -
Reminiscent of Spitalfields silks, this paper, found in Albemarle Street, off Piccadilly, had an enormous pattern repeat of 6 feet. Originally produced in dark blue flock on a light background, it was unusual to find so bold and expensive a paper used in a low-ceilinged second floor bedroom. Such grand paper would have been designed to have been on show - more often in a downstairs reception room. circa 1760.
Bayham Abbey: -
Whilst the original fragment was discovered at Bayham Abbey on the Sussex-Kent border, the paper is likely to have been produced in London. On a red ground reminiscent of a gothic style, the original paper was made from cellulose wood pulp and machine printed. circa 1880
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