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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Wallpaper is back at the forefront of interior fashion but its story is one of fluctuating fortunes. Ten years ago. 80 years ago 140 years ago papered walls were beyond pass?; today as in the eighteenth century they are the last word in decorative chic. All fashions are cyclical of course but wallpaper’s continual resurgence can be put down to two things: technological innovations and more importantly- our innate desire to decorate the walls which surround us. The invention of wallpaper was not a single eureka moment but rather a halting evolution subject to a myriad of outside influences. including the imposition of taxes and the outbreak of wars which closed trading routes and halted production. Its beginnings are vague; inextricably bound up with the emergence of a proper paper industry (wallpaper couldn’t exist until there was a steady supply of good quality paper on which to print it) and the development of wood block-printing techniques but it is generally accepted that by the sixteenth century paper had become a widely used decorating device.