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18th century French wallpaper, antique wallpaper, French Country Living, Isabelle de Borchgrave, Paper Illusions, Pater Art, The Textile Trunk
” It was in the eighteenth century that magnificent wallpapers from China
made their debut in certain very grand houses, such as the Chateau de Maintenon,
all imported by the Compagnie des Indes right along with fabrics from India…”
Rosette motifs for ceiling…
Tendriled floral patterns on a ground of thin gray stripes
from the 1780s…
Groups of Africans alternating with bouquets dating
to the end of the eighteenth century….
Several gorgeous examples of 18th century French wallpaper from the Mauny
collection, assembled in the 1930’s by Andre Mauny, and classified a national
treasure by France’s Monuments Historiques…
French Country Living
Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery
Bernard Touillon
Thibaut-Pomerantz antique wallpaper
“Indiennes”
“This is a very rare and important piece of 18th century French wallpaper.
This wallpaper was originally acquired by the founder of Gracie , in the
1940’s. I was told at that time they acquired it, it was originally installed
in a Louis XIII Castle in the Cevennes Mountains in France, near the
source of the Loire River.” …Wendy Lewis
Available on Ebay here
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Rare, delicate, highly prized, often these ethereal glimpses
into the distant past are framed as art…or put on folding screens…
View more exquisite examples of antique wallpaper
for sale at the Gracie website here
And more 18th century French paper…
this time created by artist Isabelle de Borchgrave…
The dress of Madame de Pompadour wholly constructed of paper…
based on drawing by Quentin de la Tour in the Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Additional costumes, “Papiers a la mode”, here
Sleeve detail of 18th century French panier dress below…
lace engageante and bow…
18th century imagined …and created… entirely out of paper…
Paper Illusions
The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave
Barbara and Rene Stoeltie
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Trish,
A very interesting post!
You talked about Isabelle de Borchgrave! She is an amazing Belgian woman! Our queen has worn a dress from her some years ago! Yes he was in paper! So it will not be raining if you wear a paper dress.
Thank you for such a beautiful post!
xx
Greet
Hi Greet…I suspect this was photographed at a Belgian castle/mansion…but have searched this book several times to no avail. If anyone knows the location I’d love to know!
You are the blogmaster, I promise!
LOL
Agneta, the swedish one
wow wonderful, no words for it 🙂
David
the work of Isabel de Borchgrave is just incredible. I have marvelled over them for years-For me possibly more spectacular than the originals! Lovely post as always. pgt
…and yet another fabulous and informative post. Those wallpapers are stunning….
Incredible artistry in those paper dresses…
And now to add some silliness….I actually remember wearing a paper dress as a teenager back in 1969…lol…somehow it didn’t look anything like this.
(but maybe the fact that my maiden name was Borchers had a bearing on my wearing paper!)
🙂
These dresses are amazing – the delicate quality of the paper really emphasises the elegant fragility of the dresses.
Delightful post.
Love all the exquisite wallpapers – and I would give up a toe or two for that fab paper with the camels!
I did a post a few weeks ago regarding Isabelle de Borchgrave – her work just knocks my socks off. Amazing. The white gown you have pictured here is one I have not seen – thanks for posting it!
OMG…OMG…OMG… the Thibaut paper is exquisite….I saw a paper costuming exhibit in Dallas a few years ago….I WANT the first paper illusions dress!!!!!!!! Stellar post!
Hi Trish, What wonderful photos of the old wall paper. Reminds me alot of a boxed collection of books which you may already know. ‘The Victoria and Albert Colour Books’. These are wonderful books showing designs from the extensive V&A museum collection, the copies I have feature decorative patterns for wallpaper, tiles, silks, endpapers for books … They have always been amongst my favourites.
Sharon
simply beautiful! i have long admired work in paper. thank you for a wonderful post!
Yummy–such pretty things to look at!