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Wallpaper is a material used in interior decoration to decorate the interior walls of domestic and public buildings. Historically, wallpaper has been manufactured by both individual printmakers and companies. This list includes both, arranged by country of origin.
In 1924, Arthur Bengough Sanderson received a Royal Warrant as "Purveyor of Wallpapers and Paints to King George V". [ 1 ] The original blocks for William Morris 's wallpaper designs were included in the purchase of Jeffrey & Co. [ citation needed ] When Morris & Co. was dissolved in 1940, Sanderson and Sons bought its wallpaper business and ...
Ingrain wallpaper was invented by German pharmacist Hugo Erfurt in 1864; marketed by the company his grandfather founded, it was first used as a decoration for shop windows, but began seeing use as a wallpaper from the 1920s on as well. Ingrain wallpaper is the most commonly used type of wallpaper in Germany.
Zuber & Cie (officially Manufacture Papiers Peints Zuber et Cie) is a French company that is primarily known for painted wallpaper and fabrics.Zuber claims to be the last factory in the world to produce woodblock-printed wallpapers and furnishing fabrics with a history dating back to 1797.
Wallpaper, using the printmaking technique of woodcut, gained popularity in Renaissance Europe amongst the emerging gentry. The social elite continued to hang large tapestries on the walls of their homes, as they had in the Middle Ages. These tapestries added color to the room as well as providing an insulating layer between the stone walls and ...
On 8 August 2008, IKEA UK launched a virtual mobile phone network called IKEA Family Mobile, which ran on T-Mobile. [132] At launch it was the cheapest pay-as-you-go network in the UK. [ 133 ] [ 134 ] In June 2015 the network announced that its services would cease to operate from 31 August 2015.
The Crown Wallpaper Archive, comprising 5,000 wallpaper samples and pattern books from the early 1950s to the late 1960s, is held at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] References
Coloroll is a United Kingdom wallpaper brand owned by CWV Ltd. Developed from a family-owned wallpaper company founded in the 1970s, during the 1980s Coloroll Group became a dominant publicly listed home furnishings business, which collapsed in 1990 through excessive debt. Of the ten residual brands that survived the collapse, nine of the ...