For a while now, I have experimented with vintage wallpaper. I absolutely love it; the texture, the patterns, the smell of forgotten paper in a basement for decades... Sounds bad, but it seems to add to the authenticity, at least for me!
The patterns are often crazy to say the least - big, bold & (from a modern standpoint) violently intrusive. The idea of an entire room covered in these patterns, sounds like a severe nightmare, but in small doses, cut up and mixed, I think these wall coverings are absolutely stunning.
I am always looking for sample books, and seem to find them in the strangest places. I recently got this little cute one (in the picture) from 1951, with an elegant house wife, deciding between two pink (tasteful!) choices, with the help of two christmas pixies(?)
I love it!
And today I received a thick, huge sample book with true, colorful & very believable 70’s super patterns... I could not wait to open it - I did - and saw, felt, heard & smelled the 1970s.
I look forward to incorporate it all in my work in the future. And hope to continuously find more wallpaper treasures...
