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July 2009 Pic of the Month Victorian America’s Love Affair with Wallpaper |
Another English-influenced design may be seen in this stylized botanical paper dating to the 1880s. It represents the Arts and Crafts Movement, composed of designers who reacted against the “excesses” of “overwrought” Victorian design by embracing a more pure and simplified look. Viewed as a pair, these papers are examples of high-style “artistic taste” of the late 1870s and 1880s. ID.THF67929 |
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