The Chinese were the first of all people to use wallpaper. Their designs of today differ only slightly from those used a thousand years ago. Dragons, cloudbands, flowers of all sorts, and symbols of happiness and long life are the dominating decorative motives.
U
NDER the championing of Madame de Pompadour,
Chinoiseries reached the height of their popularity.The French court, in its dread of ennui, sought romance in the unfamiliar. It seized avidly upon the exotic Chinese papers with their quaint, gay figures and their fantastic scenes of i make-believe life in strange lands.
Modern reproductions of these exquisite old Chinese wallpapers are admirably suited to rooms in the Chippendale manner. They harmonize equally well with either Chinese or plain Chippendale.
WALLPAPER
MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
of the United States
461 EIGHTH AYE., NEW YORK
The American Architect, published semi-monthly by the Architectural and Building Press, Inc., at 239 West 39th St., New York. Yearly subscription, $6.00. Entered as second-class matter April 5th, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. Issue No. 2503, dated August 20th, 1926.
U
NDER the championing of Madame de Pompadour,
Chinoiseries reached the height of their popularity.The French court, in its dread of ennui, sought romance in the unfamiliar. It seized avidly upon the exotic Chinese papers with their quaint, gay figures and their fantastic scenes of i make-believe life in strange lands.
Modern reproductions of these exquisite old Chinese wallpapers are admirably suited to rooms in the Chippendale manner. They harmonize equally well with either Chinese or plain Chippendale.
WALLPAPER
MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
of the United States
461 EIGHTH AYE., NEW YORK
The American Architect, published semi-monthly by the Architectural and Building Press, Inc., at 239 West 39th St., New York. Yearly subscription, $6.00. Entered as second-class matter April 5th, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. Issue No. 2503, dated August 20th, 1926.