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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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